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Running React on PhantomJS

I ran into an issue getting a simple Capybara/Poltergeist feature test suite running against a site that used React.js. The following failure was bubbling up to RSpec.

Failures:

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Roda to Middleman in 1 Easy Step

In an experiment to try to squeeze as many unicorns as I could out of a single dyno on Heroku, I built a version of this website on top of Roda, a thin routing layer for Rack.

It was successful experiment, between freezing about every object I could find, and a lot of other various tweaking, I had an app that provided me the convenicence of the workflow/tools I'm used to (code-reloading, Sprockets,

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Fizzbuzz in Elixir

Elixir is a beautiful language. Among its strength is its powerful pattern matching system which allows one to write very declarative, elegant code. FizzBuzz is a trivial problem often presented to new programmers or interviewees to determine baseline programming ability. Here is a solution Elixir:

defmodule FizzBuzz do

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jdjkelly> uh
jdjkelly> did anyone bring the buttfor?
mnote> *what's a buttfor*?
mnote> :)
jdjkelly> for pooping, silly