01. January 2018
Introduction to J
I tried using j for some of my advent of code puzzles. I found it wasn’t totally suitable for a lot of the challenges, but I had fun learning about J nonetheless.
10. May 2017
Popping errors out from ruby threads using a Queue
I had an issue at work where some database writes were throwing errors within a thread, and the error was being silently eaten when the thread died.
01. May 2017
Intro to Bayesian Classifiers
Bayes’ theorem is a way of determining the likelihood of an event A given that another event B has occurred. It’s a way of making an educated guess without much information to go on.
28. March 2017
Adding Database Constraints Using the `rein` Gem
rein is a gem for adding database constraints in rails migrations. It’s always been possible to set these up using execute calls in the migration, but rein makes it look rails-y.
15. September 2016
My first slack bot
I am still working on picking up some elixir, so when a coworker mentioned that writing a Slack bot is cool, I decided to give that a try. Slack is a bit easier to work with than IRC because the communication is done in JSON so you can skip a step in message parsing.
15. September 2016
The World's Simplest IRC Bot - Again
I was talking to a colleague who was expounding about the coolness of elixir. So I thought I should give it a try. In the spirit of doing something non-trivial to learn a new tool, I decided to port over the IRC bot I’ve been working on in go and ruby (which passes my bar for non-triviality).
01. September 2016
The World's Simplest IRC Bot
I saw an article on twitter about writing an IRC bot in ruby. It piqued my interest because of nostalgia and because I’m a slack curmudgeon. I believe that IRC has value. I never actually got around to trying the cinch gem that the article recommends, although if I ever need to do anything serious in this realm it wil be the first tool I turn to.