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You might want to checkout Talon Voice. I have used it in the past for hands free coding, there is a steep learning curve but once you get comfortable with it many things can be do…

> Is Porsche electrifying their cars? They have been producing the Taycan EV for a few years now. It is expensive and range is OK but not great. Probably an amazing driving experie…

Rails 7 has finally added this to active record: sole and find_sole_by Both raise an exception unless a single record is found. Of course this would not make a difference when work…

It really is "that bad". JIRA is not made for humans.

$10 for 15-20 hours of usage a month? Automatically bumps to the $25 price if you go over.

I lean towards a little duplication until it becomes clear that there is real duplication taking place and not 'incidental duplication'. Read this quote somewhere: Make the code DR…

I've got about 500 miles on my Diverge (and the Pathfinders) the tires ride great. - Good on the road, even cornering is decent which was unexpected with light tread. - Great on gr…

Tesla Model 3 Long Range Been dreaming of being able to drive without using gasoline for decades, that dream is now a reality. Is it a perfect car - nope, but there really isn’t an…

> i don't think dependency management is great in any language. Ruby is terrible! If you use bundler and Gemfile.lock everything 'just works' in Ruby. Node/npm/yarn is a nightmare

> Oregon has no sales tax, are everyday items more expensive. Nope. At least I didn't notice that when I lived there (2012 - 2017). Income tax is higher than most states but still …

There is no deodorant that can suppress my BO, I just end up smelling like BO with a hint of deodorant. Luckily for my coworkers I am usually remote.

Large ruby on rails application. Entire test suite takes around 40 minutes to run, however we use circleCI and parallelize the build so realtime is around 10 minutes. What makes th…

> create a longer lived branch and make small PRs to that. I follow this pattern a lot, we call it an epic branch and usually name it something like `epic/foobar`

Great article!

> if you do a quick and dirty code for a feature that never gets used (or dropped). Is that technical debt? Yes, code that is not being used should be deleted as soon as possible. …

> 100/16 Mbps is pretty decent I guess Its fantastic, can't wait until this is available where I live. Currently paying $200+ a month for 20Mbps from local wireless company. 2 mile…

You might want to try https://gigahood.com/ as well?

Yeah, locked my primary account and the admin account. There was no option to use any recovery options that I could see. And today I get an email saying my accounts are now enabled…

Same thing happened to me yesterday, I had to switch my MX records over to fastmail as that was easier than trying to figure out how to resolve the issue with Google directly. I ha…

This is a pretty good article on ICE vs EV https://www.motorbiscuit.com/are-electric-cars-worse-for-the... > ... compared to most gasoline-powered cars, an electric car should beco…

If you are on a project with more than one person having some kind of process is a good thing. ‘Agile’ gives you the flexibility to determine what that process is. Scrum is a diffe…

> We would make estimates, and be told they weren't commitments. Yeah, this is ridiculous; Scrum actually changed the term from ‘Commitment’ to ‘Forecast’ back in 2011. But the ind…

> Strong ownership and trust between engineer and product owners, both way. Trust has to be the most important ingredient for a successful project regardless of the project managem…

tree brew tree (if you are on Mac)

Working remotely does not stop collaboration. I have been working primarily remote for the past 12 years. I meet with my team every day for standup and am in constant contact with …