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Update Your Gems Early and Often

bundle outdated can be useful for keeping your bundler dependencies updated.
Ian Zabel
January 24, 2017
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)

From the NYC Vim Meetup, Max Cantor explores tradeoffs between plugin complexity, and achieving similar results with built in Vim features.
Thom Obarski
January 20, 2017
- Vim
- New York City
Getting Started With Org Mode

From the Boston Emacs Meetup, Harry Schwartz demonstrates some of the nifty features of Org mode.
Thom Obarski
January 16, 2017
- Emacs
- Boston
Elm's universal pattern

Want to build a random generator? A JSON decoder? Combine multiple Maybes into a more complex one? Do it all with this one simple trick.
Joël Quenneville
January 13, 2017
- Elm
- Web
Shell Script Suggestions for Speedy Setups

Is your team setup for success? Do they have the tools to deliver working software? Step zero is being able to get setup quickly.
Matt Sumner
January 12, 2017
Preloading Nested Associations with Ecto

A look at how to preload database associations using Elixir’s Ecto library.
Greg Lazarev
January 11, 2017
- Elixir
- Ecto
- Web
Lessons Learned: Avoiding Primitives in Elm

Switching from primitive types to product types can improve confidence in correctness and compiler errors, but not without a cost.
Josh Clayton
January 10, 2017
- Web
- Elm
- Haskell
Announcing Purple Train

We shipped a mobile app that efficiently shows MBTA Commuter Rail departure times.
Ian C. Anderson
January 9, 2017
- News
- iOS
- Android
- React Native
- Elm
- Mobile
New On Upcase: Mastering the Shell

High-leverage knowledge for improving your productivity.
Ben Orenstein
January 6, 2017
- News
- Upcase
- Shell
Maya for Beginners

An introductory tutorial to Maya and how to create simple models.
Morgane Santos
January 5, 2017
- Design
- 3D
- Maya
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