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Two ways of looking at map functions

Map functions are hard to “get” in the abstract. This looks at two mental models that helped me understand them better.
Joël Quenneville
November 20, 2017
Lucky, an experimental new web framework by thoughtbot

Lucky, a new Crystal web framework built to catch bugs at compile time, run quickly, and help you write maintainable code.
Paul Smith
October 27, 2017
- Lucky
- Crystal
- Web
Bridging Elm and JavaScript with Ports

Elm is strongly-typed; JavaScript is not. Communication between the two is paramount for large applications and ports enable this.
Josh Clayton
October 25, 2017
- Elm
- JavaScript
- Web
factory_bot

factory_girl is becoming factory_bot.
Avielle Wolfe and Josh Clayton
October 24, 2017
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Modeling with Union Types

Clean up Maybe by modeling multiple shapes of data with union types.
Joël Quenneville
October 13, 2017
- Elm
- Web
Redux for Chrome Extensions

An intro to functional state management for your Chrome extensions using Redux.
Bruno Antunes
October 2, 2017
- Web
- JavaScript
- Chrome
- Redux
Access Ruby Hash Values with Fallbacks for Missing Data

Find out different ways to access hash values in Ruby and save the dinosaurs at the same time.
Rob Whittaker
September 25, 2017
- Code
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Debugging Why Your Specs Have Slowed Down

Your test suite used to be lightning fast but now it’s starting to feel a bit sluggish. Before adding CI parallelization, let’s see if there’s any clutter to remove.
Mike Wenger
September 22, 2017
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
- Factory Girl
- Web
- Factory Bot
Booleans and Enums

Refactor common Boolean smells using enums (union types).
Joël Quenneville
September 20, 2017
- Web
- Elm
- Good Code
Better Date Manipulation in PostgreSQL Queries

Use interval and date_trunc to make working with SQL dates easier.
Derrick Carr
September 19, 2017
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
- Data
- Web
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