If you've ever tried to hit your local Rails server from a physical Android device, you've probably run into this: your phone can't reach localhost:3000. The fix is a simple command, but understand...
Wait, what's a phased release? A phased release, or rollout, is a process where an app update is released to customers in stages instead of all at once. This is useful in several ways: 1. Gauge how...
Recently, I had to clean up all my stale branches and since I am not really a big fan of a GUI tool for git I looked into an alternative ways of doing that. In my ruby work I am mostly using VIM as...
Rails had changed the default type of the primary key from int to big int when creating a new table - Change Default Primary Keys to BIGINT 26266, but unless you are working with a big set of recor...
This is an updated version for Ubuntu 20.04 and extraterm 0.59.2 (current Date is 07.06.2021) I recently purchased a desktop PC (mostly for gaming and audio editing), after several days of doing th...
In this blog post I am going to write about my approach on deploying a Ruby On Rails application and dealing with Sidekiq (job scheduler written in Ruby). This approach is probably suitable for a s...
In 2018 I started a physical challenge with a friend of mine, we decided to start doing 50 push ups a day as a way to get in shape, this quickly turned into something more serious and we invited a ...
A couple of months ago I wrote The Art of Push Ups, in that blog post I presented a tool that I've developed in order to keep track of my training activities. Surprisingly it grew on its own, there...
A push-up (or press-up) is a common calisthenics exercise beginning from the prone position, or the front leaning rest position. They are also a common form of punishment used in the military, scho...
Four years ago I decided to start with the the thing called "yearly challenge", the reason was I had just passed my mid twenties and I felt like it was time to go back and do a retrospective. Time ...