Rebuilding my blog from the Wayback Machine
How I got 101 posts back out of the Internet Archive and into a fresh WordPress install.
Software engineer. Writing things down.
Everything I learned the hard way, written down before I forget it.
Debugging stories, small discoveries, and the occasional long explanation of something that took me a week.
Writing
105 posts.env.example is untyped text
So I wrote dottyenv, a small CLI that checks your .env against a schema and tells you where to get what is missing.
Scanning for env vars without a language table
Every language reads the environment with the substring env. That turned out to be enough.
Shipping a Rust CLI to Homebrew, Debian and RHEL
How dottyenv gets from a git tag to a binary that runs on RHEL 8, and how CI proves it.
My Commonly Used Gems
These are frequently used gems. Almost every project I start or work on use these: pagy pg redis annotate faker pry-rails name_of_person whenever friendly_id inline_svg bootstrap / tailwind...
Hello Ruby 3.0 and Rails 6.1
I love when the tools I use are updated.
Baby Name Rails App: Part 1 Import Data
I guess this is my how-to build a rails app from scratch. Using Rails 6.0.3.3, ElasticSearch (Searchkick), Sidekiq, Redis, PostgreSQL to build an app to utilize the data....
Apache Spark SQL: Baby Names Part 3
Scanning all files downloaded calculating rank and adding the year to results. Code:
Apache Spark SQL: Calculating Rank and writing to file | Baby Names Part 2
Lets do something interesting and useful with the data like figure out the rankings and write results to a file. First lets learn how to filter and only...
Apache Spark SQL: Simple Usecases using Python | Baby Names Part 1
Now I won't be going over map/reduce functions or RDD. I am interested in Spark SQL, these examples will be using Data Frames and Spark SQL. I will...
Installing/Updating Python
Add this to your ~/.zshrc file source ~/.zshrc Check your install