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Ylan Segal

@ylansegal

Pondering, Unverified. Software Engineer, specializing in Ruby, Rails and back-end systems.

 San Diego
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Joined July 2008
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Yesterday I said, without skipping a beat, "as far as I can grep, this code is not used".
GoodJob Bulk Enqueue ift.tt/OpP3HFt

GoodJob Bulk Enqueue

A common pattern in Rails application to queue similar jobs for a collection objects. For example: post.watchers.find_each do |user| NotifyOfChanges.perform_later(user, post) end The above will gen...

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The REPL: Issue 104 - April 2023 ift.tt/gkmr0AK

The REPL: Issue 104 - April 2023

Making A Network Call: Mitigate The Risk Nate Berkopec, well knows for his Ruby/Rails performance work, writes some good advice to mitigating the performance risk of making network calls: Make call...

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The REPL: Issue 103 - March 2023 ift.tt/iWIpwZE

The REPL: Issue 103 - March 2023

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? The Stephan Wolfram explains what ChaptGPT is doing. This article is very technical and on the long side. I found it quite enlightening to learn about ...

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TIL: rails restart ift.tt/7s4TVFy

TIL: rails restart

I first started writing Rails in 2010. Today I learned on the Ruby on Rails Blog that you can restart a running server in development with: $ bin/rails restart Up until today, I always quit my serv...

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The REPL: Issue 102 - Februrary 2023 ift.tt/BbJYfg3

The REPL: Issue 102 - Februrary 2023

That Wild Ask A Manager Story This article references a story that is new to me. In short, the person that went through the series of interviews is not the same person that shows up for work. Inste...

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Using bashly to create a CLI ift.tt/Om9rwE6

Using bashly to create a CLI

bashly is a command-line application that let’s you generate feature-rich command line tools. The idea is that you specify via a YAML file what subcommands, arguments, flags and environment variabl...

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The REPL: Issue 100 - December 2022 ift.tt/Y57ZjA9

The REPL: Issue 100 - December 2022

Just Use Postgres for Everything Complexity can be reduced by having less dependencies and systems. Postgres is a fantastic technology, and getting better with every release. I’ve been doing what t...

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The REPL: Issue 99 - November 2022 ift.tt/r9gT1pn
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Asdf, Direnv Together ift.tt/8OJTjGE

Asdf, Direnv Together

I previously wrote about how I use asdf and dirvenv together to setup per-project postgres versions. I recently learned about asdf-direnv, a direnv plugin for asdf. asdf works by creating shims of ...

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I was taking about the whole twitter situation with my 3 teenagers. None of them had heard of Mastodon.
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The REPL: Issue 98 - October 2022 ift.tt/PU6ycRl

The REPL: Issue 98 - October 2022

Rebase dependent branches Taylor Blau at the GitHub blog points highlights a new feature git (v2.38) that I am super excited about. You can now git rebase --update-refs. Since reading that, I’ve al...

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Git Monorepo Improved Performance ift.tt/FUtugsN

Git Monorepo Improved Performance

git recently shipped some performance improvements when working with large repositories, as announced on the GitHub blog. I tested in a large repository. With default configuration: $ time git stat...

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The REPL: Issue 97 - September 2022 http://localhost:4000/blog/2022/10/03/the-repl-issue-97-september-2022/
The REPL: Issue 96 - August 2022 ift.tt/zoEGOBs

The REPL: Issue 96 - August 2022

Your Makefiles are wrong make is a very powerful build tool, but it has sharp edges. In this post Jacob Davis-Hansson explains some best practices to improve the experience. The key insight is that...

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This Blog: 10 Years Later ift.tt/ZFGgoOf

This Blog: 10 Years Later

Ten years ago I published my first post in this blog. Let’s look back. I’ve published 210 posts: $ ls src/_posts | wc -l 210 Relatively evenly over the years: $ ls src/_posts | cut -f1 -d'-'...

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The REPL: Issue 94 - June 2022 ift.tt/rhU0K3H

The REPL: Issue 95 - July 2022

The Bullshit Web Nick Heer laments the state of the current web. Modem speed in the 1990s were 56K modem (I started connecting with the internet on a 14.4K connection). Connection speeds are orders...

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RSpec DSL Is Just Fine ift.tt/4rZKEM9

RSpec DSL Is Just Fine

In a recent article, Caleb Hearth proposes improving RSpec specifications by using ruby methods. I don’t agree with his prescription. The original motivation for the article is to avoid the Mystert...

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The REPL: Issue 94 - June 2022 ift.tt/lpzAs6k

The REPL: Issue 94 - June 2022

Incremental View Maintenance Implementation as a PostgreSQL extension I’ve written before about leveraging Postgres views, focusing on non-materialized views. Materialized views bring other benefit...

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Switching to VS Code ift.tt/eNsAbrd

Switching to VS Code

The GitHub blog recently announced Atom’s sunsetting. It’s been clear for a while that my text editor of choice was not receiving regular updates. It is now time to move on. I first reviewed Atom i...

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