Sidekiq 4’s performance boost
Mike Perham managed to turbo-boost Sidekiq for v4, making it six times faster. This in itself is good news for those of us who use it and his write-up is also of interest. #perfmatters The perf tricks that made this...
When your app composes tweets: Dealing with metadata
For those who don’t know, Twitter converts every URL to its own “t.co” shortener URL. So no matter how short or long your original URL is, the t.co URL will end up as a fixed character length, and that character...
The Class1-Class2 Naming Antipattern for Associations
Join classes (aka join tables) are entities whose main purpose is to associate one object (aka record) with another in a NxN relationship. A common and decades-old pattern, which is almost always wrong, is to name these classes after both...
A simple way to speed up Vim Ctrl-P plugin: Delegate to Ag
Ctrl-p is “Intellisense for Vim”, allowing you to quickly jump to a file by searching for a few letters or even fancy camel-case type searches. (e.g. find article_editor.rb by searching for “ae”). However, doing all this requires it to maintain...
Installing Android Marshmallow – quick gotcha notes
What the various guides often omit. Run android-sdk/tools/android and update platform-tools The oem unlock setting on phone kept reverting. But “fastboot oem unlock” fixed it. Ensure “adb devices” shows the device Ensure “Device State” on phone shows as UNLOCKED “cannot...