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by rossta 2y ago
The article is about a _green reading_ technique called Aim Point rather than the putting stroke itself. In the title, "putting technique" might be interpreted as "putting stroke" and I would consider green reading and p
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by rossta 2y ago
Advice from a 40-something programmer: Learn how to spend responsibly, invest, and plan for your financial future. One way to do that is to work with a financial advisor. The sooner you start in your career, the better. Look for “advice onl
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by rossta 2y ago
Bummer, I can’t reproduce. Could you share more details?
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by rossta 2y ago
I have heard a few people mention issues but I haven’t been able to reproduce nor understand the scope of the issue. Any more details you can share? You’re getting HTML but JS or CSS assets aren’t loading, right? What status and headers do
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by rossta 2y ago
That’s fair. I acknowledge that terms like "horizontal" and "vertical" may be overloaded or even confusing, in this case, if it’s difficult to see the connection with the visuals. This is somewhat part of the risk in try
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by rossta 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I was thinking along those lines but settled on a version that let you toggle between the two. I’ll keep this in mind for next time though. There are probably a lot of fun variations to explore. Since this post seem
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A visual demo of Ruby's lazy enumerator(joyofrails.com)
125 points by rossta 2y ago|27 comments
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by rossta 2y ago
I don‘t speak for Noah’s family but can share from my experience. I lost my wife suddenly and unexpectedly. The event was intensely traumatic for me and devastating for our extended family. One day, she and I were planning for the future. T
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by rossta 2y ago
Some extra notes: Ruby Video is a Rails application backed by SQLite, its frontend powered by Hotwire. It is open source on GitHub. I’d consider the repo a great resource for anyone looking to learn more about how modern Rails apps are buil
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What you need to know about SQLite (for Rails)(joyofrails.com)
4 points by rossta 2y ago|0 comments
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by rossta 3y ago
I remember meeting you at a DC Ruby conference after a talk you gave on middleware as a design concept. This was years ago, in the early days of Vagrant I think. Amazing to see how much you’ve accomplished since then. Congrats on your achie
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by rossta 3y ago
Similar goals, different philosophies and approaches. A few differences: HTMX makes it possible to enhance any element with hypertext capabilities. I don’t believe it works with JavaScript disabled. Hotwire still relies on <a> and &lt
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by rossta 3y ago
This reminds me of the Accomplice brand of immersive theater that’s been active in New York and other cities for years now. It’s part walking tour, part play, part mystery, part scavenger hunt. The best part is trying to figure out whether
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by rossta 4y ago
I got my start in web development right around the time Ryan started RailsCasts, the early days of Rails. He inspired a generation of developers, me included, to learn the ins and outs of the framework and its ecosystem. His weekly posts we
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by rossta 4y ago
LOL this was my favorite comment
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by rossta 6y ago
This is a really interesting use case! Screenshots of your book look great. I'd just started looking into the existing tools like those you mentioned for e-book authoring and it's quickly gotten overwhelming. From what you've
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by rossta 6y ago
Hooks rely on a persistent call index. Here are a few posts that explain in more detail: https://overreacted.io/why-do-hooks-rely-on-call-order/ https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/68#is
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We’re on the Brink of Cyberpunk(slate.com)
3 points by rossta 6y ago|0 comments
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3 Ways Webpack Surprises Web Developers(rossta.net)
2 points by rossta 7y ago|0 comments
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by rossta 9y ago
My wife passed away in her sleep in 2016. It was unexpected. I woke up like it was any other day and then it wasn't. I never imagined something like that would happen. Learning how to carry on without my partner and my best friend has
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by rossta 9y ago
I have to admit, the dig with the oversized Reese's coffee cup at the end made me LOL.
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by rossta 9y ago
If you like this, you may be interested to know the host, Saron Yitbarek, produces some other podcasts including CodeNewbie and BaseCS. * https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast * https://www.codenewbie.org/basec
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by rossta 9y ago
Thank you for sharing. This is the best thing I've seen on HN in a long time.
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Pentagon hires hackers to target internal systems(bloomberg.com)
1 points by rossta 10y ago|0 comments
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by rossta 10y ago
Consider that content can have way more potential to be educational and interesting when crafted with a specific audience in mind. For an Elixir post, that audience need not be "all programmers". I see nothing wrong with the autho
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by rossta 10y ago
Aside from the tech required to enable a web UI for creating and collaboratively editing full applications and providing the infrastructure to quickly spin up and deploy these apps... a big part of the appeal to me is the design and persona
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by rossta 10y ago
I've tried to use lanyrd in the past and have found its information to be unreliable and also difficult to find what I'm looking for, e.g., "what Ruby conferences in the US are coming up next year worth attending/speakin
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by rossta 10y ago
Thanks, there really aren't enough memes from Spaceballs these days.
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by rossta 10y ago
It's great to see generators presented in an engaging and approachable way. I like the layering of examples and comparisons between eager and lazy functions. I don't find generators to be an easy concept to understand for most bu
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by rossta 10y ago
This doesn't account for the possibility that his teammates have a higher percentage because Kobe is the biggest threat to take a shot and the opposing team sets up to defend accordingly.

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