Rewriting a system live, imposter syndrome, and programmer skill obsessions.
Month: October 2017
Episode #502: Subprocesses Part 13: Detach, Wait, Kill
Don't let your Ruby subprocesses become zombies!
BRUNCH #38
Perl 6, software as set design, isolated integration tests, and more...
Episode #501: Suppress Output
Learn a robust, cross-platform way to throw away unwanted output in Ruby programs.
Episode #500: Subprocesses Part 12: Fork and Exec
Learn the twin pillars at the root of the UNIX process-spawning architecture!
Episode #499: Subprocesses Part 11: Fork
If you're making subprocesses on a UNIX-like OS, you're using fork(). Learn all about using fork() from Ruby.
BRUNCH #36: Patterns that Matter
A few of my favorite non-Gang-of-Four patterns.