My references

Log of articles and books I've been reading, that can be useful to someone

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Articles/Blog Posts

Agile

• Retrospectives 101
  • Author: Retrium
  • Read on: 2019-08-27

Career/Work

• 6 Ways to Level Up your Career

  • Author: Helen Anderson
  • Read on: 2019-01-22

• Rethinking how we interview in Microsoft's Developer Division

  • Author: John Montgomery
  • Read on: 2019-01-31

DYI

• How to build your won primitive surveillance system with Raspberry Pi in less than one hour

  • Author: Nick Shulhin
  • Read on: 2019-04-16

• Ruby driven Raspberry Pi buttons

  • Author: Valentino Stoll
  • Read on: 2019-10-04

Elixir

• Cool CLIs in Elixir with IO.write/2

  • Author: Dennis Beatty
  • Read on: 2019-01-28

• [ Elixir | Why Linked Lists? ]

  • Author: Edison Yap
  • Read on: 2019-02-13

• Starting with Elixr, the Study Guide

  • Author: Rafael Rocha
  • Read on: 2019-02-21

• How we Built a Highly Performant App with Ruby on Rails and Phoenix

  • Author: Zuzia Kusznir
  • Read on: 2019-03-29

• The Value of a Senior Developer

  • Author: David Christian Liedle
  • Read on: 2019-05-16

Front-end

• Working an application in Vue.js with TDD — An extensive guide for people who have time — part 1
  • Author: Daniel Kuroski
  • Read on: 2019-02-14

Misc

• A regex cheatsheet for all those regex haters (and lovers)

  • Author: Catherine
  • Read on: 2019-01-22

• Base CS

  • Author: Vaidehi Joshi

• How arrays work the way arrays work

  • Author: Edison Yap
  • Read on: 2019-02-13

• How to give great code reviews

  • Author: Angelika Tyborska
  • Read on: 2019-05-24

• How Far Out is AWS Fargate?

  • Author: Michael Lavers
  • Read on: 2019-08-21

• Git Catastrophes and Tips to Avoid Them

  • Author: János Kibisch
  • Read on: 2019-08-26

• Fail Fast and Fail Often: Handling API Errors at Scale

  • Author: Akshay Nathan
  • Read on: 2019-10-11

• Blue-Green deployments for Sidekiq workers in docker

  • Author: Bernat Rafales
  • Read on: 2019-11-11

• Apathy and Arsenic: a Victorian Era lesson on fighting the surveillance state

  • Author: Lilly Ryan
  • Watched on: 2021-10-22

Performance

• 3 ActiveRecord Mistakes That Slow Down Rails Apps: Count, Where and Present

  • Author: Nate Berkopec
  • Read on: 2019-01-16

• 42 performance tips for Ruby on Rails

  • Author: Magnus Skog
  • Read on: 2019-02-05

• Preventing Useless Database Hits

  • Author: Molly Struve
  • Read on: 2019-02-12

• Recursion, Tail Call Optimization and Recursion

  • Author: Edison Yap
  • Read on: 2019-02-19

• Speeding up Rails boot time

  • Author: Hercules Merscher
  • Read on: 2019-11-21
  • Tags: performance, rails, tests

• A beginner's guide to Big O notation

  • Author: Rob Bell
  • Read on: 2020-04-06
  • Tags: big-o-notation, algorithms

Refactoring

• Refactoring code that accesses external services

  • Author: Martin Fowler
  • Read on: 2019-01-15

• StranglerApplication

  • Author: Martin Fowler
  • Read on: 2019-01-31

• The Transformation Priority Premise

  • Author: Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
  • Read on: 2019-01-17

• Taming legacy Ruby code using the “Sprout Method” technique (example 1)

  • Author: Jason Swett
  • Read on: 2019-04-12

• Taming legacy Ruby code using the “Sprout Method” technique (example 2)

  • Author: Jason Swett
  • Read on: 2019-04-12

• Controller Best Practices: Don’t Hide Instance Variables

  • Author: Thiago Araújo Silva
  • Read on: 2019-10-18

• All the Little Things

  • Author: Sandi Metz
  • Watched on: 2019-10-18

• Extracting a tidy PORO from a messy Active Record model

  • Author: Jason Swett
  • Read on: 2020-01-10
  • Tags: refactoring, rails, poro, models

• Small Rails design patterns that make a big difference

  • Author: Paweł Dąbrowski
  • Read on: 2021-02-22
  • Tags: refactoring, rails, patterns

Ruby/Rails

• Using Ruby in 2019

  • Author: Jason Charnes
  • Read on: 2019-01-14

• Extracting Text From Images Using Ruby

  • Author: Ahmed (@aonemd)
  • Read on: 2019-01-18

• Uploading images from Rails to DigitalOcean Spaces, with previewing

  • Author: Eric Khoury
  • Read on: 2019-01-28

• Ruby tricks for junior developers

  • Author: Clement Bruno
  • Read on: 2019-1-28

• What's new in Ruby 2.6

  • Author: Nithin Bekal
  • Read on: 2019-02-01

• Polimorfismo no Ruby on Rails

  • Author: Vinicius Freire de Oliveira
  • Read on: 2019-02-04

• Ruby on Rails - how to create perfect enum in 5 steps

  • Author: Błażej Pichur
  • Read on: 2019-02-05

• Ruby 2.7 - Enumerable#tally

  • Author: Brandon Weaver
  • Read on: 2019-02-18

• Essential Ruby Gems for Web Application Development with Rails 5.2

  • Author: Sreedev Kodichath
  • Read on: 2019-02-19

• What's coming to Rails 6.0

  • Author: Guy Maliar
  • Read on: 2019-02-28

• A collection of tips and tricks for the Ruby language

  • Author: Sreedev Kodichath
  • Read on: 2019-02-28

• Use Vim as a Ruby IDE

  • Author: SpaceVim
  • Read on: 2019-03-01

• Learn by building, a Background Processing System in Ruby

  • Author: Benedikt Deicke
  • Read on: 2019-04-08

• Hanami Getting Started

  • Author: Hanami
  • Read on: 2019-04-18

• Ruby 2.7 — Pattern Matching — First Impressions

  • Author: Brandon Weaver
  • Read on: 2019-04-23

• Ruby 2.7 — Pattern Matching — Destructuring on Point

  • Author: Brandon Weaver
  • Read on: 2019-04-24

• The Pure Function As An Object (PFAAO) Ruby Pattern

  • Author: Tom Dalling
  • Read on: 2019-04-26

• Ruby 2.7 adds shorthand operator for Object#method

  • Author: Vipul A M
  • Read on: 2019-05-10

• Avoid Mutation – Functional Style In Ruby

  • Author: Tom Dalling
  • Read on: 2019-05-21

• The lifecycle of a request

  • Author: Godfrey Chan
  • Read on: 2019-05-31

• Rails Techniques: Using Polymorphic Associations

  • Author: Jovan Ivanovic
  • Read on: 2019-05-31

• Ruby double splat (**) operator cheatsheet

  • Author: Ilia Kriachov
  • Read on: 2019-08-29

• Ruby Pattern Matching

  • Author: Sebastian Suttner
  • Read on: 2019-09-05

• To Serialize or Not to Serialize: ActiveModel Serializers

  • Author: Vaidehi Joshi
  • Read on: 2019-09-09

• ActiveRecord - Quick Tips

  • Author: Lucas Sapienza
  • Read on: 2019-09-16

• How to Test Background Jobs with Active Job

  • Author: Go Rails
  • Read on: 2019-11-15

• It's About Time (Zones)

  • Author: Elle Meredith
  • Read on: 2019-11-28
  • Tags: time, timezone, rails

• Ruby 2.7 pattern matching after 10 months of professional Elixir

  • Author: Josef Strzibny
  • Read on: 2020-01-10
  • Tags: pattern matching, elixir, ruby

• Why does Rails 6 include both Webpacker and Sprockets?

  • Author: Ross Kaffenberger
  • Read on: 2020-06-24
  • Tags: rails, webpack, sprockets, frontend

• The Complexity of Active Record Transactions

  • Author: Janko Marohnić
  • Read on: 2020-10-08
  • Tags: rails, activerecord, sequel, db

• Using client stubs for easy and reliable integration tests

  • Author: Fabio Perrella
  • Read on: 2021-01-08
  • Tags: rails, testing, rspec, stubs

• Understanding ActiveRecord inner joins

• Author: Ana Nunes da Silva

• Read on: 2021-03-18

• Tags: rails, activerecord, sql, jois

• Ruby's map | collect methods explained visually

• Author: Rich Steinmetz

• Read on: 2021-03-31

• Tags: ruby, alias

• Why are there multiple names for one method in Ruby?

• Author: Rich Steinmetz

• Read on: 2021-03-31

• Tags: ruby, alias

To read

• How to create a simple CRUD app with Rails and React

  • Author: James Hibbard
  • Tags: tutorial, rails, react

• Speeding up your Ruby on Rails app

  • Author: Daniel Lempesis
  • Tags: tips, rails, performance, database

• Creating a chat application from scratch using Rails and WebSockets

  • Author: Lazarus Lazaridis
  • Tags: rails, websockets, actioncable, redis, chat, tutorial

• How to get into SRE

  • Author: Alice Goldfuss
  • Tags: SRE, guide

• How to create a Todo List with Phoenix LiveView

  • Author: Dennis Beatty
  • Tags: elixr, phoenix, liveview, tutorial

• Understanding sed - Practical Guide

  • Tags: tutorials, sed

• Phoenix LiveView Tutorial: Bootstrap Your Messenger App

  • Tags: tutorials, phoenix, elixir, liveview

• What causes Ruby memory bloat?

  • Tags: ruby, refactoring

Bookmarks

• 30 Seconds of CSS
  • Tags: tutorials, css

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Books

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
  • Author: Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas
  • Started on: 2019-02-21