悪いエネルギーは遠くに留まります (This read – and honestly any other one – would be nicer if you had Feral Thing by Josin playing.) *Cue the longest, most unnecessary intro ever!* Since 2014, I’ve been writing these end of the year things on Medium. It’s that time again and I’ve spent the
iPhone XS Max Review I’ve spent a few months with the iPhone XS Max and I finally have conclusive thoughts. Here they are: (You can read my iPhone X review from earlier this year here.) The Screen The first thing I noticed immediately I held the iPhone XS Max
With a real world example This article introduced me to Prepend. It does a really good job of explaining the keywords below & the ancestor hierarchy. As such it’s a good idea to read it before mine. I decided to write this to show my real world use-case of
If you’re an experienced (web) developer like I am, the words in the title make complete sense to you and are pretty basic. In talking to a few beginners recently, (as part of my attempts to come up with a sort of curriculum), I found out that they often
My initial plan was to write these articles in chronological order because I actually remember which edible episode came before which. But as we all know — man proposes, an intoxicant disposes. This article is a result of my session two days ago. Hope you can at least tolerate it. “When
It could be because of the research I had to do for the VR project I was working on with my brother. I hadn’t delved into any physics topics in a while but I’m pretty sure I’ve not been fascinated by many the way this one fascinated
If you’re using react-redux then you should be familiar with the code below. // SomeContainer.jsx const mapDispatchToProps = (dispatch) => ({ ... }); const mapStateToProps = (state) => ({ ... }); export default connect(matchStateToProps, matchDispatchToProps)(SomeComponent); And then in your file that handles routing (or wherever). You’d have something like this. <Route exact path=
I decided to write a series of posts that show how I do certain things with graphql-ruby in server side Rails applications. Today, I’ll be showing how I handle authentication. Understanding this article requires some knowledge of GraphQL, Rails & how to use devise (or some other authentication gem
I recently started doing React + Redux development and Redux took some getting used to. So I decided to write this to make it a bit easier for the next beginner to understand. My aim with this is to explain the ideas behind libraries like Redux and not focus on the
iPhone X is the “10th” iPhone from Apple and it’s meant to show us what the future of the smartphone looks like. I’ve spent about 1.5 months with the iPhone X (256GB, Space Grey)and I’m ready to take you through what that experience has been
About the Switch The Nintendo Switch is a “hybrid” console that was released March last year. By hybrid, they mean that it’s both: * a portable/hand-held console (like the GBA or Nintendo DS). The Switch itself is a 6.2 inch tablet that supports up to 720p resolution. * a
(This read — and honestly any other one — would be nicer if you had Final by Wilsen playing.) Sentō kaishi. This simply means “battle start”. It’s the thing you hear just right before you start mashing a game controller when playing Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm. Not only does it sound
If you’re using Postgres 9.4+ in your Rails application, you get to create columns in the jsonb type, which lets you store non-relational data. To do this, you add the column in a migration as usual, like so: add_column :users, :preferences, :jsonb, default: '{}' Now, you
This was originally published on superyesmore’s The Human in The Machine. In certain (developed) countries, where a healthy amount of productivity role models hail from, productivity has been pretty much nailed down to a science. Form habits, create schedules, minimize distractions etc etc. Obviously, I’m simplifying things a
Problem It’s quite difficult to buy and/or sell BTC (or other cryptocurrencies) in Africa. Currently, in some countries, bitcoin exchanges exist but they don’t provide the best possible experience with little or no barrier to entry. Card payments or direct bank payments aren’t possible which are
I’m working on a super-top-secret-but-not-really-maybe-cryptocurrency-related web product and I eventually ended up needing two back-end applications; one built in Rails and the other in Node.js The Rails application makes HTTPS requests to the Node.js application for very important things and as such securing that communication is of
I’m guilty of occasionally assuming that there’s hope for a dramatic change in the general state of things in my home country. But luckily, frequently enough, something happens that resets my head to reality mode. I saw some news yesterday, that in retrospect, is pretty normal as far
Update: You can see the class we end up writing, but in Java here. I started using Kotlin in Android, yesterday. Yes, yesterday. I haven’t even done serious Android development in a while, so I was completely lost; drowning in terms like rxjava, LiveData, MVVM, AAC, Dagger and all
This is going to be a relatively short post. It’s something I just did and felt like sharing in the moment. I have this project that uses graphql-ruby (it’s an amazing gem). As you quickly find out, it’s neater to have separate classes to DRY up commonly
Generally, my experience with Twitter for Mac hasn’t been good. It’s probably much better these days, but my issues with it are: * Too much time passes between updates. * Due to the above problem, any time a new “tweet type” is introduced it takes ages before Twitter for Mac
It’s hard to keep up in the world of software development, especially these days. There’s always some new framework, library, preprocessor, server, language. Knowing which is just noise to be ignored or which is groundbreaking is not a trivial task . Also “noise” is different for everyone depending on
I did some work with Alessandro Desantis recently and he introduced me into a very different, but also very reasonable way of making JSON REST APIs with Ruby on Rails. He did more than introduce me, however, he actually created the gems/framework/architecture that enforces (and greatly eases) this
I think I was the only person the planet not initially skeptical about the AirPods. The day it was announced, there was (in my opinion) an unusual amount of negativity directed towards it, though I’m sure the removal of the headphone jack had to do with it. Here were
As a software developer, especially one with little experience, it’s very easy to get confused about what you should do and what you shouldn’t do. There are tons of articles, written by way more experienced developers telling you which software development practice is an absolute taboo and which