Year In Review - 2020

2020 was a year of reflection for me. I learned so much about myself. And I’m so proud of the time I gave myself.

Here’s a look back into my favorites for the year, the lessons I learnt and my resolutions for 2021.

Concurrency In The Erlang VM

Erlang is often referred to as the “concurrency oriented programming language”.

How did it get this name? How can a language created in the 80s for the telecom industry help us now?

Before you upgrade your Rails 4 project to Rails 5

I finally, FINALLY moved my old Rails projects stuck in Rails 4 to Rails 5. I’ve been dreading doing this, since it is such a painful process. But a new year is meant for new things (or old things, depending on how you look at this).

Rails strategy for reusing common behavior in models

A while ago I had an interesting problem to solve. Three of my modules reused the same functionality, they all had to parse address fields from a given lat and long.

The Ruby Configure Block

I’ve always liked the way certain Ruby gems allowed developers to configure parts of its workflow.

Airbrake.configure do |config|
  config.api_key = 'your_key_here'
end

This block just looks so clean and to the point. Almost like magic!

But magic is just a bit of zeros and ones. How’d they do it?