One peculiarity of Ruby that trips up a lot of programmers migrating from other languages is the fact that while it has true and false types, they don't share a […]
Episode #563
Ruby's open classes are both powerful, and a fertile ground for creating technical debt. In part 2 of 2, rejoin guest chef Jordan Raine to discover how to responsibly monkey-patch …
Episode #562
Sometimes a 3rd-party library or framework doesn't work quite the way you need. Join guest chef Jordan Raine to learn how to interactively explore library code until you find the …
Episode #561
Join guest chef Adam Fernung to build a simple Ruby REPL---and in the process, learn how the Binding class enables dynamic reflection of the current variable scope!
Episode #560
What is the best way to learn an API? Manuals? Tutorial? In this episode, follow along with me in a live exploration of the Ruby CSV library using IRB, and …
BRUNCH for January 20, 2019
The myth of raw data, OODA-loop debugging, learning robots, and more!
Episode #559
Let's talk about asynchronous code. How do we manage parallel-but-interdependent workflows without losing its place or wasting time? In the first of a series, we'll start by getting a handle …
Episode #558
Discover how to use Ruby's yield_self/then method to organize methods into neat pipelines of operations! Join guest chef Nithin Bekal for an educational and satisfying refactoring sequence.
Why Ruby doesn’t have a Boolean class
One peculiarity of Ruby that trips up a lot of programmers migrating from other languages is the fact that while it has true and false types, they don't share a …
BRUNCH for December 30, 2018
Good morning, and happy Sunday! First off, sorry about the repeat BRUNCH that went out earlier today! I didn't mean to serve you leftovers… And now, here are some things …
BRUNCH for December 23, 2018
Good morning, and happy Sunday! Here are some things I found interesting in the past week.