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Software / engineering practiceRuby / RailsLinux / Unix

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131 from 31 Dec 2007 to 30 Jun 2026
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now and then (2 in the last year)
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2026 1

  1. Opening Streetka Boot without Key

2025 2

  1. jj jj jj jj jj
  2. Apple Watch Band Mnemonic

2024 3

  1. Set Up Rails Activestorage With Azure Securely
  2. Programatically invoke rake task with --trace enabled
  3. Running OmniOS via UTM on Apple Silicon

2023 2

  1. Upgraded Dekoni Earpads for Sony WH-1000XM3 Headphones
  2. `asdf install ruby` on macOS

2022 2

  1. @fediverse@twitter via ///
  2. iLO 4 Firmware Upgrade

2021 3

  1. Shawbury 10km 2021
  2. Fix Edgerouter DHCP ? entries
  3. Cleaning BODUM Bistro Coffee Grinder

2020 4

  1. Disable Google Autoupdater on macOS
  2. Let's Peek: A tale of finding "Waypoint"
  3. Tailscale, RFC1918, and DNS Rebinding Protection
  4. RSpec Given/When/Then with symbols

2019 3

  1. curl --resolve
  2. Cheaper Oil for Mini One R50
  3. Download All Your Gists

2018 4

  1. Prefixing Git Branch With Initials
  2. Struct-uring your data
  3. Running rails tests under CircleCI 2.0 with MariaDB
  4. Overcommit git hooks: puppet validate

2017 9

  1. Cleaning up locally installed Rubies & Gems
  2. Something Goes Here
  3. git git git git git
  4. Upgrading Microserver G8 CPU
  5. Wenlock Olympian Triathlon 2017
  6. Raspberry Pi 3 as an emergency router
  7. Finding cheap Microserver G8 memory
  8. Bash script setup
  9. BMW 328i crankshaft sensor issue

2016 6

  1. Stop HealthKit causing SIGABRT
  2. Remove OS X Disk Password
  3. Find dependencies blocking rails upgrades
  4. SmartOS Recovery mount /usbkey
  5. Much Wenlock Triathlon 2016
  6. Setup DHCP interface in FreeBSD

2015 2

  1. SoundCloud RSS Feeds
  2. exec(3) in Go

2014 10

  1. Changing hostname in SmartOS Zone
  2. Install Rubinius on OS X
  3. Changing root password in global zone
  4. Compiling SmartOS for AMD processors
  5. The People's Triathlon 2014
  6. Solve volume down button not working on iPhone 5
  7. Compile & run swift files directly
  8. Cheshire Triathlon 2014
  9. York April 2014 Triathlon
  10. Rename Google Drive folder on Mac

2013 8

  1. Add to iCloud Reading List programmatically
  2. North West Triathlon 2013
  3. Happy Villanelle
  4. Pair new device with Nexxus Drive Transmit Pro
  5. Church intertwined with State
  6. evil.rb
  7. Some Small Refactorings in Ruby
  8. Why I love DATA

2012 9

  1. Geolocation in nginx
  2. Mounting Harman Kardon Soundsticks on the wall
  3. Musical Quiz
  4. Human Affliction
  5. Where did life go?
  6. Install capybara-webkit gem on Ubuntu
  7. Use Readline With Default Ruby on OS X
  8. End Of An Era
  9. Nighttime Horrors

2011 9

  1. Defining Ruby Superclasses On The Fly
  2. Magic Bubble
  3. Experimental Procrastination
  4. Install GCC-4.2.1 (Apple build 5666.3) with Xcode 4.2
  5. TweetSavr
  6. #to_param and keyword slugs
  7. Bad Recruiters - Rhys Evans at Devonshire
  8. Abusing Ruby 1.9 & JSON for fun
  9. App Store Hidden Preferences

2010 5

  1. Facebook iPhone app Contact Sync isn't automatic
  2. +[NSObject load] in MacRuby
  3. Potty Training YAML
  4. Ruby Shortcuts
  5. iPad? iPerfect (…for me)

2009 21

  1. at(1) on OS X
  2. Read Later in a keystroke
  3. My Menubar Items
  4. Read standard input using Objective-C
  5. Nissan Almera Self Diagnostic Menu
  6. Ignore .gitignore in Git
  7. Filter through command
  8. Mac Tips you may not know
  9. Education Network Restrictions
  10. Capitalise "ringer" on the iPhone Volume Bezel
  11. Adding XHTML output validation to Cucumber stories
  12. Quantum Javascript Bug
  13. Automatically Deploying Website From Remote Git Repository
  14. Find shell commands with which
  15. Validating Data with Regular Expressions in Ruby
  16. Safari 4 Hidden Preferences
  17. Migrating Rubygems to Ruby 1.9.x
  18. View Raw Source
  19. This is my Compiler
  20. Install Mysql Gem on Leopard
  21. GTranslate

2008 26

  1. The Shell Meme
  2. Sending Array elements as individual arguments in Ruby
  3. Merry Testing
  4. Think Visibility: An Online Marketing Conference
  5. Fix Mail.app crashing after 10.5.6 upgrade
  6. Quick Picture of Yourself
  7. Installing Ubuntu on an iMac G3
  8. When work just feels right
  9. Adding a remote to existing git repo
  10. Removing non-existent source from rubygems
  11. Setting up git with rails apps
  12. Spanning Sync
  13. Create a blank rails app including plugins
  14. Keyboards
  15. Alistapart Survey
  16. Another Concise Code Example
  17. Inaugural Habaricon
  18. BarCamp Manchester
  19. Command line tricks: Scripting Languages
  20. Refactoring code logically
  21. Use datamapper sessions with merb & datamapper
  22. Why do I love Ruby?
  23. UK Parking
  24. Published Pictures
  25. Twitter Statistics
  26. OS X User has a virus

2007 2

  1. dSLR Quote
  2. Quote to see the new year in