The Ruby Bibliography – A list of academic papers using ruby. Aw, our little language is all growed up!
LFE – Lisp Flavored Erlang, just in case Elixir isn’t obscure and cutting-edge enough for you.
MiniStatsD: A simple StatsD client in Ruby – An…

Docker Storage: An Introduction – Both how Docker images are stored and how persistent storage inside of Docker containers works.
Data Traceability and Lineage – Thoughts on keeping track of where data comes from so you can better investigate anom…

A practical security guide for web developers – Mostly an outline at this point, but looks promising if it gets filled in.
Ruby Web Deb The Other Way – A lot of pointers and ideas about using Rails well and moving beyond it. A bit disorganized but…

hack.css – the CSS framework for hackers – Install via npm, use markdown, etc.
HubPress – A Web application to manage a blog on github.
New Features in Ruby 2.4 – An exhaustive list with syntax samples. For just the highlights of the last few ver…

Merging vs. Rebasing – Best explanation I’ve seen yet of these git concepts, from the folks at Atlassian.
Blaze_CSS – Modular CSS framework that tries to be less overwhelming than things like Bootstrap.
Barebones – Rails application generator tha…

Rails 4.2.7 and 4.1.16 have been released! – Likely the last release in the 4.1 series, now that Rails 5 is out.
Marp – “Markdown presentation writer” lets you use Markdown to produce slide shows.

I’m back!

MySQL Error caused by sql_mode=only_full_group_by – Some defaults change in MySQL when you go from 5.6 to 5.7. If you have a homebrew install and need to revert those changes, here’s how.
Improving Rails Performance with Better Background…

Behavior Changes in Ruby 2.4 – A look at how some of the coming tweaks might affect existing code.
Rails 5.0.0.rc2 – New Rails is getting close.
Otto: The Next Generation of Vagrant – A potential replacement for Vagrant that brings more focus on …