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Wednesday, December 9th, 2015. Laying down on the couch with a cold and my little dog on my lap under covers, looking out my second floor picture window I see bare trees against a light blue sky. I had just been caught up in reading posts on my meditation app (InsightTimer) after meditating, continuing my relentless and restless pursuit […]. Sitting Still. Sometimes. Wednesday, November 25th, 2015. How’s that quest to understand eternity, you might ask? What are we doing here, exactly?
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Letterboxd — Your life in film. Is using Letterboxd to share their film diary. Create your own account in less than a minute. Block or Report user. This member is blocked. RSS feed for Brandon. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Mad Max: Fury Road. April and the Extraordinary World. Batman: The Killing Joke. Year to date 2016. April and the Extraordinary World. Batman: The Killing Joke. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. Watched, liked and rated. On Friday Aug 5, 2016.
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Complex Static Sites on Heroku
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Thoughts on programming and whatnot. Complex Static Sites on Heroku. May 14th, 2015. A few years ago I wrote about a simple way to host static sites on Heroku. That was great when my personal site was just one page and some assets, but it eventually grew past that. Now it’s a handful of static pages built by Middleman, as is this blog. Do not build your site locally and commit the build folder to your repository before deploying. That is gross and unnecessary. Bundle exec middleman build". To map your UR...
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Railyard
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Thoughts on programming and whatnot. February 24th, 2015. I don’t always install the Rails gem globally, but when I do, I cry myself to sleep at night. Me. Ruby gems fall into one of two categories based on how you install them. There are the gems you install globally, outside the context of an application, like Bundler or Pry. And then there are the gems you install locally, inside the context of an application, like Faraday or BCrypt. But then there’s Rails. Successfully installed actionview-4.1...
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Transactional Fixtures in Rails
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Thoughts on programming and whatnot. Transactional Fixtures in Rails. March 18th, 2015. If you use Ruby and write automated tests you’re probably familiar with Database Cleaner. It’s a gem for cleaning your database in between each test. What you may not know is that if you use Rails, using Database Cleaner is entirely unnecessary because of transactional fixtures. Absolutely no idea it had this feature. I only figured it out while debugging an issue with a transaction I was testing. I turned off Dat...
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Hold Please
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Thoughts on programming and whatnot. February 10th, 2015. The canonical example for an ActiveRecord callback is sending a welcome email after a. I remember how awesome that felt the first time. It seemed like such great design. I was fat-modeling, skinny-controllering with the best of them. But the joy didn’t last long. Another time, I was trying to speed up an agonizingly slow test suite. Out of curiosity I commented out the welcome email callback on. Want it to run. Inspired by Gary Bernhardt’s. If you...
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