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Thomas Countz

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67 from 7 Mar 2018 to 22 Feb 2026
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2026 2

  1. Job Scheduling with at(1)
  2. Good Citizen Syndrome

2025 17

  1. Event Streaming vs Background Jobs
  2. Chrome's SSL Bypass Cheatcode
  3. Debouncing API Calls
  4. Where Does Apple Hide Your Voice Memo Transcripts?
  5. Forth Feedback Loop
  6. Color Strings Refinement
  7. Good Morning, Team!
  8. Run Commands on File Change
  9. Ruby Bug #21117: Numbered Block Params
  10. Routine Complications
  11. Hill Chart Web App
  12. Capture ActiveRecord Queries
  13. Ruby CLI Progress Bar
  14. Checklist App Prototype
  15. Interactive jq
  16. ActiveRecord Models to a Mermaid ERD
  17. Adding Journals

2023 2

  1. Low-Poly Image Generation using Evolutionary Algorithms in Ruby
  2. Utilizing Docker for Bundling in a Specific Ruby Environment

2022 1

  1. A Thought on Practice

2021 9

  1. Københavns Luftkvalitet og Cykling
  2. Sargable Queries & MUL Indexes; or Why My Query is Slow
  3. Rocket Lab Telemetry From Video
  4. Hexo - Schematic Capture, Mechanical Design, & PCB Layout
  5. Hexo - Prototyping, Design, Simulation
  6. Communication Superhighways
  7. Crafting an Invitation to Think
  8. Repeated Signals Wear Grooves
  9. Arduino Tone for ESP32

2020 10

  1. SQL Injection Overview
  2. Dare to be Good Enough—You'll be Happier for it
  3. Specify Bundler Version
  4. Types of Notetaking
  5. FastBook Chapter 4 Questions & Notes
  6. 2020-04-30 MLOps for Web Devs - Fastai2, Flask, Docker, & Heroku
  7. 2020-02-13 Precommitments
  8. 2020-02-01 Why I Share the Agenda
  9. 2020-01-13 Third-Party Cookies
  10. 2020-01-10 Range of Tolerance

2019 17

  1. 2019-12-23 End of Freshman Year
  2. 2019-09-29 Becoming Unprecious
  3. 2019-09-08 * Entry-level Compiler
  4. 2019-06-07 Ruby ORM VI: Metaprogramming Column-backed Query Methods
  5. 2019-06-06 Ruby ORM V: Choosing Mixins over Inheritance
  6. 2019-06-05 Ruby ORM IV: Preventing SQL Injections
  7. 2019-06-04 Ruby ORM III: Defining the DX of the API
  8. 2019-06-03 Ruby ORM II: Getting SQLite Talking to Ruby
  9. 2019-06-02 Ruby ORM I: The Active Record Pattern
  10. 2019-05-30 Weinberg's Second Law
  11. 2019-05-30 Can I Take Notes?
  12. 2019-05-29 The Burden of Self-Imposed Bureaucracy
  13. 2019-05-29 Subscribing to The Public Square
  14. 2019-05-24 Bobby - Designing an App Just For Me
  15. 2019-05-23 Innocent Applications
  16. 2019-05-21 Safer Monkey Patching in Ruby
  17. 2019-02-19 * Essential & Relevant: A Unit Test Balancing Act

2018 9

  1. 2018-11-18 Coordinate Frames in 2D w/ Homogeneous Coordinates + Matplotlib
  2. 2018-07-11 Ownership in Rust II: References, Borrowing, and Safety
  3. 2018-07-09 * Ownership in Rust I: Moves, Copies, and the Stack vs. Heap
  4. 2018-04-13 Calculate the Decision Boundary; Visualize Linear Separability
  5. 2018-04-05 * 19-line Line-by-line Python Perceptron
  6. 2018-03-28 Automating Perceptron Learning Algorithm
  7. 2018-03-26 Teaching a Perceptron by Hand
  8. 2018-03-23 Perceptrons: The Simplest Artificial Neuron
  9. 2018-03-07 Testing Ruby’s `gets` & `puts`