I’ve used a variety of tools to organise my reading and notes. Given I spend a significant amount of my time studying, depending on 3rd parties gives me anxiety. Any of the tools I use, even the open-source offline-first ones, can become unmaintained, ridden with security vulnerabilities, slow or they may change in way which makes me reluctant to use them.
To some extent, this post is a sequel to “knowledge mapping”.
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I published a new gem, sidekiq-dry aiming to tackle a variety of
common frustrations when it comes to Sidekiq jobs and their arguments.
What do I know? What do we know?
How do we know what we know and what is there that we should know?
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This time we’ll experiment with a quick way to architecture a Rails application to use Pub/Sub instead of model callbacks. What’s wrong with callbacks Rails active record models easily become bloated, that’s where most of the business logic tends to live after all. One of the most common sources of technical debt in Rails apps is callbacks. Models become god-objects with dependencies to other models, mailers and even 3rd party services. … Read more
