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Explore Video Conferencing Tools

• 📆 Oct 8, 2019
• for thoughtbot, Inc

Why

☝ In the spirit of continuous improvement, I would like to explore video conferencing tools to use at work with clients, to see if there are other options available that provide a more smooth, clear, and reliable experience.

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Elm Language Guide

• 📆 2019-07-19
• this spans many weeks / investment times
• 📖 🌳️🕵‍♀️️ The Elm Language Guide
• 👨‍💻📝️ an experienced OOP programmer learning FP and Elm

Installing Elm

Compared to my experiences using JavaScript over many years, I found installing

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Functional Structures in Scala

• 📆 2019-04-19
• this spans many weeks / investment times
• 📹 Screencast: Functional Structures
• 👨‍💻📝️ an experienced OOP programmer learning FP and Scala
  • and maybe category theory? 🤔

On Kindedness

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function clearswap { sudo swapoff -a && sudo swapon -a; }

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# Helpers to assist with the `devise_token_auth` security features, such as
#  generation of new authentication tokens for each request.
# @see [devise_token_auth Github issue](https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth/issues/75)
module RequestSpecHelper::ApiAuthHelper

  module Extensions
    # Helper method for authenticating a User for each Request type spec.
    #  Use `devise_token_auth` callback to generate an authentication token
    #  for each request.
    # Call this on a created User at the beginning of a `describe` or `context`

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module RequestSpecHelper::SessionsHelper

  # Set single expectation that checks auth headers were returned.
  def expect_auth_headers(response)
    expect(response.headers.keys).to include('access-token', 'client', 'expiry', 'uid')
  end

end

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# Shared specs for models with frozen CONST values. Expects two String values
#  as parameters. 
RSpec.shared_examples :has_const_model do |const_name, const_value|

  it { expect(described_class).to be_const_defined(const_name.to_sym) }
  it { expect("#{described_class}::#{const_name}".constantize).to be_frozen }
  it { expect("#{described_class}::#{const_name}".constantize).to eq(const_value) }

end

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# Shared specs for models with the `:validates_numericality_of` validators.
# Usage: pass a hash of each of the symbolized names of each options for the
#  numericality validator. If the option has a value with which to evaluate
#  against, add it as the value of that option hash name.
#  E.g.:
#  `it_behaves_like :validates_numericality_model, :numeric_attr, { greater_than_or_equal_to: 0, only_integer: true }`
RSpec.shared_examples :validates_numericality_model do |attribute_name, options|

  it { is_expected.to validate_numericality_of(attribute_name) }

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# Shared specs for models with the `acts_as_paranoid` features.
RSpec.shared_examples :soft_delete_model do

  it { is_expected.to have_db_column(:deleted_at) }

  it 'has a scope to select soft-deleted records' do
    expect(described_class).to respond_to(:only_deleted)
  end

  it 'has a scope to select both not-deleted and soft-deleted records' do

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# Shared specs for models with the `:validates_inclusion_of` validators, where
#  Boolean values are specified. This is for use cases where Booleans are  used
#  in non-null DB columns, and validation errors need to be returned to actors
#  attempting to store a NULL value (e.g., a IoT unit's firmware uploading a
#  NULL value for an On/Off sensor reading).
# Additionally, `shoulda` will complain if `validate_inclusion_of` is used
#  with the Booleans, and instead of turning off warnings, its best to just
#  approach these specs differently. See
#  [this github comment](https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers/issues/922#issuecomment-225752673)
#  for more info.