Nicer printing of Rails models

Nicer printing of Rails models

May 17, 2020 | Technical

I like my models to be printed nicely, to make the class of the model as well as the id and other data available, so, when they end up in a log or console, I can now exactly what it is. I’ve been doing this since before Rails 3 and since Rails projects now have...
Editing Rails 6.0 credentials on Windows

Editing Rails 6.0 credentials on Windows

May 16, 2020 | Technical

Rails 6 shipped with a very nice feature to keep encrypted credentials on the repo but separate them by environment, so you can have the credentials for development, staging and production, encrypted with different keys, that you keep safe at different levels. For...
Talk to each other, you are missing out

Talk to each other, you are missing out

May 13, 2020 | Business

For the past few weeks I’ve been talking to entrepreneurs, trying to help with their problems. I’ve heard both of these statements repeated a few times: Marketing is easy, but coding is impossible.Marketeers and Building a thing is fun, but then I have no...
The Voyager 1 museum

The Voyager 1 museum

May 8, 2020 | Personal

Voyager 1 is, as of now, 22 billion kilometers away from home. One day, we’ll be a space-faring species and we’ll have Voyager 1 in a museum. It’ll be trivial for us to go and reach Voyager but we won’t retrieve it. What’s wonderful about...