Minitest: Small But Mighty

Minitest: Small But Mighty

I was recently browsing the Rails sub-Reddit and was surprised to see how much flak Minitest was getting from the community; the stated favorite seemed to be RSpec by a wide margin. While RSpec has enjoyed widespread adoption and has a substantial ecosystem, I believe...

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Fly.io VS Render VS Dokku – Fight!

Fly.io VS Render VS Dokku – Fight!

There's never been an easier time to get your application up and running on world-class level hosting providers and there a number of great providers available. Today, we're diving into a comparative analysis of three of my preferred hosting solutions: Fly.io, Render,...

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Warp & ChatGPT

Warp & ChatGPT

Artificial intelligence has been a game-changer across numerous industries, with software development being no exception. Warp, a groundbreaking terminal emulator that utilizes OpenAI's ChatGPT to revolutionize the way software developers work, has embraced the future...

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Lemur Review

Coder Radio listeners will know that I have been agonizing over replacing my three-old MacBook Pro and with the recent Apple announcement of their new MacBook, I ended up ordering a System 76 Lemur laptop with Ubuntu 16.10 Linux pre-installed. If you’re interested in...

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TarDisk Review

My dev machine is a “Late 2013” 13 inch Macbook Pro. The machine has more or less been serving me well, despite the occasional kernel panic — these crashes tend to happen when I need to have Android Studio and an Xcode project with a substantial storyboard open at the...

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AppCode Review

As is well documented on Twitter, I’ve had my share of frustrating system locking beachball of death experiences with Xcode, so it should come as no surprise that I’ve been keeping a keen eye on JetBrains’ AppCode IDE for iOS and MacOS development. Being a user of two...

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