staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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jonathanmoore

Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

Twitter

fxn

Ruby: The future of frozen string literals

What is a literal?

In programming languages, literals are textual representations of values in the source code. This is a syntactical concept.

Some examples:

7 # integer literal

eliotsykes

require 'rails_helper'

RSpec.describe TodosController, :type => :controller do

  describe "GET #index" do
  #describe "POST #create" do
  #describe "GET #show" do
  #describe "PATCH #update" do (or PUT #update)
  #describe "DELETE #destroy" do
  #describe "GET #new" do

dhh

ruby '2.7.1'

gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails'
gem 'tzinfo-data', '>= 1.2016.7'  # Don't rely on OSX/Linux timezone data

# Action Text
gem 'actiontext', github: 'basecamp/actiontext', ref: 'okra'
gem 'okra', github: 'basecamp/okra'

# Drivers

DmitryTsepelev

How to run examples

1. Run $ createdb uniq-db-test to create DB
2. Run example with Ruby (e.g., $ ruby 1_find_or_create_by_single_thread.rb)

Benchmark output

With many successful INSERTs

Warming up --------------------------------------

amcvitty

Password Autofill on a React Native Expo app

Developing an app to accompany our website, worried that we would lose people in the transition if they couldn't remember their password, we were looking to make our app do Password AutoFill, a feature in iOS.

A talk from WWDC introducing the feature: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/206/

It works well, but there were a few bumps in the road making it work for React Native on Expo, so here are some notes to help out.

Apple's docs are here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/password_autofill and they say something like this:

Huluk

If you want your terminal vim to open files you double click, follow the following steps (MacOS only):
 
1. Open Automator
2. Select Application
3. Copy the attached file
4. Save and set as default for opening files

Multiple files are opened in vim tabs.
If there is already a vim instance running, files are opened in it.

mrispoli24

Setting up Heroku and Cloudflare (the right way)

The following outlines how to setup Heroku + Cloudflare with a full SSL certificate. What this means is that communication between the browser and the Cloudflare CDN is encrypted as well as communication between Cloudflare and Heroku’s origin server. Follow these steps exactly and the setup is a breeze.

Step 1: Set up domain names in Heroku

First you want to add the root domain and the www domain to heroku. You do this by clicking into your production application, then going to settings and then scrolling down to Domains and certificates.

Here you will add <your_domain>.com and www.<your_domain>.com. This will give you two CNAME records. They will look something like <your_domain>.com.herokudns.com and www.<your_domain>.com.herokudns.com.

Step 2: Add CNAME records to Cloudfare.

wbotelhos

require 'sidekiq/api'

# 1. Clear retry set

Sidekiq::RetrySet.new.clear

# 2. Clear scheduled jobs 

Sidekiq::ScheduledSet.new.clear