Post archive
Some of my chef definitions that help deploy Rails apps
I DRYed up my Chef deploy scripts and extracted some definitions in to a cookbook: chef-rails-helpers.
February 26, 2014
How to find files with filenames that are too long
Here’s a neat regular expression trick that you can use to find pathnames longer than a certain length, say, 20 characters:
February 19, 2014
Two reasons not to use exFAT on your NAS
I’ve been using the exFAT file system on my Raspberry PI-powered NAS for awhile. I’ve chosen it because exFAT is the only “modern” filesystem that has read-write support in Windows, Linux and OS X. I use all three, so it was beneficial that the drive could be connected to any OS directly over a super-speed USB connection.
February 19, 2014,
revised February 25, 2014
Windows context menu command to watermark images
Imagine someone asked you to provide an effective way to put watermarks on some images before posting them online.
February 13, 2014
How to configure Dual WAN on AsusWRT routers
The AsusWRT firmware supports something called "Dual WAN" - an option to have two Internet channels connected.
January 30, 2014
SSH key forwarding with Chef deploy from git
Overcoming hurdles in passing ssh-agent through user sessions
January 30, 2014
Рекомендую: читалку Marvin для iPhone
Посвящается памяти прекрасной читалки Stanza, которую съел Amazon.
January 30, 2014
Кемекс
Впечатления от ручной кофеварки Chemex
January 29, 2014
Рекомендую: сделать из Caps Lock "гиперклавишу"
Для начала, что такое «гиперклавиша»? Это дополнительная клавиша-модификатор. Такая, как Shift, Control, Alt (Option), Command, Windows. Вот так все просто.
December 12, 2013
Рекомендую: Humble New Tab Page для Chrome
Humble New Tab Page уже года два служит моей бессменной домашней страницей.
December 10, 2013
Рекомендую: наушники AKG Q460
От наушников я хотел:
December 5, 2013
Рекомендую: Scanner Pro - сканируй айфоном
Почему бы не отметить уходящий год серией от чистого сердца рекомендаций?
December 3, 2013
Отчет о хакатоне TCDisrupt Berlin 2013
TCDisrupt – такая конференция для стартаперов и стартапщиц, организуемая американской медийной компанией TechCrunch. В этом году TCDisrupt случился в Берлине, и мы в Railsware собрали команду для участия в традиционном для этих конференций хакатоне.
November 5, 2013
Improve your code with unit tests
As a way of ensuring buglessness, tests fail miserably.
October 16, 2013
Unobtrusive flash messages for Rails
I’d like to announce a gem that I wrote three years ago, then it got off my radar, albeit having some traction on RubyGems. I finally updated it to be compatible with recent technologies and also easier to use.
October 10, 2013
Water, laptops, and how to assemble and install Macbook Air keys
My Air had met its mortal enemy a couple of days ago: dihydrogen monoxide. Contact with this dangerous chemical had left a couple keys («A» and «S», no less) out of order.
September 16, 2013
Учеба в автошколе
What do I know about cars? I’m a software developer. I was a happy software developer until nine months ago, and then – what do I know about cars? They don’t come from Antwerp.
August 28, 2013,
revised January 29, 2014
RSS blues
I’ve found out recently that my posts are duplicated in Feedly – sorry for that. Is this post also duplicated? Please comment if you’re using Feedly.
August 27, 2013
Don't measure current without a load
PROTIP of the Day: if you want to measure how much current can your USB charger provide, you have to connect it to an output first. Because current means electrons running around, and if electrons are running around freely, they are going to run too fast and blow the charger.
August 20, 2013
Отчет о хакатоне 24hack
Я люблю хакатоны. Хакатон – это собрание людей, готовых фигачить, жертвуя отдыхом, сном, и личной гигиеной. Это настоящие программисты, в лучшем смысле этого слова. Это безумные идеи, безумный темп и совершенно разумный вариант досуга выходного дня.
August 19, 2013,
revised February 2, 2014