Double Shot #1551

  • httpbin - Online HTTP request/response service for testing a wide variety of endpoints in your client code.
  • flexbox in 5 minutes - Learn the ins and outs of this new CSS feature in an interactive tour.

Double Shot #1545

  • What's New in Bootstrap 4 - Lots.
  • The Power of Power Cycling - In the bad old days when I was in customer support, we used to joke that 90% of the problems we got calls for could be solved by remembering that it works better when it's plugged in & turned on. Actually I'm not sure that was a joke.
  • I, Object! - Just how do all those ducks work in Ruby, anyhow?

Double Shot #1544

Why I'm opposed to Codes of Conduct: I fear a race to be holier than thou, a world where everyone who does not stay perfectly aligned with a party line set by the most intolerant gets attacked and dismissed. I am troubled by the trend to protect people from being challenged by diverse ideas, and I hold (with John Stuart Mill) that a vibrant marketplace of ideas - even odious ideas - is our best guarantee of continued freedom and intellectual progress.

  • A Salute to Solo Programmers - It's hard for me to read this without thinking that our industry has gone far, far down the wrong path. Of course, I think that most of the time anyhow. But there could have been a world in which impressively functional applications were small & nearly bug-free.
  • httpie - CLI tool for making HTTP requests designed to be simpler to use than cURL.
  • Writ - "Opinionated, classless styles for semantic HTML" - In other words, a better default stylesheet than your browser uses by itself.

Double Shot #1543

  • Rails Contributor Code of Conduct - I just want to make it 100% crystal clear that I do not represent the Rails project or its community. As far as I'm concerned, this whole CoC trend is an extremely bad idea.
  • Bootstrap 4 Alpha - Remember when this CSS framework was just a teeny little thing? Yeah, me neither.
  • The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons - The future appears to consist of dropping the way add-ons have been written for a decade and reducing what they can do. Some developers are not happy. I'm not real happy either; this brings up the real possibility of not having a single web browser that fits my needs.

Double Shot #1541

Double Shot #1538

  • AppHub - React Native framework to allow updating your iOS apps without going through Apple review. It may be technically OK under the current license agreement but I'll bet Apple cracks down on this stuff soon.
  • Introducing Docker Content Trust - Strong cryptographic signatures for what gets installed in Docker images.
  • GitHub Desktop is now available - Next version of the GitHug desktop client for Mac and Windows.

Double Shot #1534

  • JAWS - A "Javascript and AWS Stack" to let you deploy scalable sites without servers on the cheap.
  • Evolution of Ruby on Rails - Youtube movie of Gource visualization of the entire RoR repo.
  • Fast Ruby - Techniques for speeding up your code, with benchmarks. Do run the benchmarks on your own app rather than just cargo-culting this stuff.

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