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NPM: Putting the Brown in Brownout(ryanbigg.com)
4 points by ryanbigg 5mo ago|0 comments
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Hanami for Rails Developers – Part 1(ryanbigg.com)
2 points by ryanbigg 1y ago|0 comments
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by ryanbigg 1y ago
Great advice here! I especially like the idea of 50 minute meetings. I’ve been lightly enforcing a rule of my own too: “no agenda, no attenda”
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by ryanbigg 1y ago
Ironically the article is barely readable on an iPhone…
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Show, Don't Tell(ryanbigg.com)
2 points by ryanbigg 1y ago|1 comments
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by ryanbigg 1y ago
On the topic of copy editing you raise: I wrote a book in DocBook for Manning in 2010. DocBook is XML, so I structured it with opening / end tags on their own line, content in the middle. As you would with a HTML document. After copy e
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Ghosts 'N' Stuff(ryanbigg.com)
2 points by ryanbigg 2y ago|0 comments
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by ryanbigg 2y ago
I wonder if Fitzgibbon fits this pattern? Fitz being “the bastard son of…” and Gibbon, like ape? Or perhaps Gibbon has another meaning?
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React Is Fine(ryanbigg.com)
2 points by ryanbigg 2y ago|0 comments
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by ryanbigg 2y ago
The "Writing" section here has huge "draw the rest of the owl" vibes. (I say this as an accomplished author of 10 tech books.) Yes, it's worth optimising for your productivity. It's not the be all and end all.
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by ryanbigg 2y ago
This is weasel wording but with actions. I’d expect better from Apple
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by ryanbigg 2y ago
I have written a few tech books: https://ryanbigg.com/books Off these, I’ve made $65,000USD. That’s over 13 years. None of these books have sold anywhere near as close to the Unicorn Project! (Which imo is fanfic for the te
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by ryanbigg 2y ago
What an excellent resource! (And yes Outlook is a pain and supports so very little!) We've tried building email templates for notifications for our apps where I work, and it has typically been a pain. We have since swapped to using mjm
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Code Is Like Garden(ryanbigg.com)
2 points by ryanbigg 2y ago|1 comments
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by ryanbigg 2y ago
I sometimes use it for moving code blocks around, especially between files or from scratch pad to a file.
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One year with the Ergodox EZ(ryanbigg.com)
10 points by ryanbigg 2y ago|6 comments
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Tailwind Has Won(ryanbigg.com)
4 points by ryanbigg 2y ago|2 comments
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by ryanbigg 2y ago
Ah took a moment to load the second time round but it got there. Regular iPhone user here, but based down under.
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by ryanbigg 2y ago
Your personal site is so minimal, that it doesn’t even load on my phone. Is the URL right? (Also, that would be a good domain name for myself ;)
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by ryanbigg 3y ago
It feels like there’s 20 years of history missing between 2000 and 2019. What cool stories are hidden in those two decades? :)
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by ryanbigg 3y ago
This is pretty incredible work! (Action web service was an attempt to make Rails generate SOAP APIs as that was the style du jour at the time. Fortunately, JSON came along!)
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by ryanbigg 3y ago
Absolutely! When I wrote for Manning, a print book that sold for $45 netted me a huge $4.50 — 90/10 split. Ebooks were 50/50. Guess the print guys all gotta take their cut.
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by ryanbigg 3y ago
Been writing tech books now for over a decade, got about 8-10 under the belt depending on if you count 2nd and 3rd editions as new books. Definitely not writing them for the money — that’s about $300 a month usually. Enough to buy a few kni
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by ryanbigg 3y ago
I’ve done some work on something “less serious” in Ruby: https://github.com/radar/mtg I view it as a wide project full of little interlinked code katas. I’ve thought about the card parsing stuff but that’s beyond my ab
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Saving Time with Fzf(ryanbigg.com)
3 points by ryanbigg 3y ago|0 comments
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by ryanbigg 3y ago
https://ryanbigg.com I usually write posts about code, but this post about culture and values really resonated with a lot of people: https://ryanbigg.com/2021/12/culture-and-values
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by ryanbigg 3y ago
I also like a Ctrl+T for finding a file in the current directory. For example: bundle exec rspec <Ctrl+T>
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by ryanbigg 4y ago
Which example?
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by ryanbigg 4y ago
Maintained Spree as it’s community manager ( https://GitHub.com/spree/spree ) for 2.5-3 years, depending on how you count. Taught me a lot about OSS. Dollar figures processed using code I wrote / maintained hurt my
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by ryanbigg 4y ago
Rails is what pays the bills :) Just because I don't like _parts_ of Rails doesn't mean I will completely abandon it. This occurs in other parts of my life too. I find it really inefficient to use allen keys to tighten hex screws,

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