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  1. Sorting elegantly in Rails with in_order_of

    Sorting columns in custom order in Rails elegantly using inorderof.

    Trésor Bireke
    April 28, 2025
    • Ruby
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    • SQL
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  2. Tools I like: Zoxide

    Checkout z, a neat lil command line utility.

    Brian Tenggren
    March 22, 2024
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  3. Spaces: The Final Frontier

    One big giant blob of words is hard – and tedious – to read. Let’s get back to elementary school and see how we can improve this.

    Matheus Richard
    September 15, 2021
    • Refactoring
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  4. Debugging Series 2021: Welcome to the Jungle

    Whether you’re a novice or a master, we’re going to help you level up your debugging game in this multi-part blog series, featuring new content every week!

    Louis Antonopoulos
    April 2, 2021
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  5. KISSing It: On Revisiting Old Code

    One of the many things that’s cringeworthy but worth it.

    EJ Mitchell
    January 4, 2021
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  6. Name the Abstraction, Not the Data

    Naming presenters can be challenging. By shifting our perspective to look at what abstraction we are representing rather than the data being presented, we can bring clarity to our presenters, views, and models.

    Eebs Kobeissi
    January 20, 2020
    • Rails
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  7. Meowifier: A Hiss-tory Lesson

    The tail of how it all started.

    Beth Haubert
    October 4, 2019
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    Want to learn how to tackle technical debt or improve your product performance? Introducing our new code audit service.

    Emily Bahna
    April 4, 2019
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  9. Is Elixir a scripting language?

    Elixir is known for being a language made for building distributed applications that scale, are massively concurrent, and have self-healing properties. But is Elixir good enough for the mundane scripts of this world?

    German Velasco
    October 15, 2018
    • Elixir
    • Functional Programming
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  10. Chess and Recursion: Part 1

    It turns out solving chess moves with recursion and pattern matching is a lot of fun!

    Dan Barber
    August 10, 2018
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