Ruby 3 Typing
Soutaro Matsumoto and the Ruby team over at Square have a proposal for typing in Ruby 3. My initial reaction was a befuddled sort of confusion as though I were a dog who woke up with a human's hands. It took several readings for me to understand why Ruby developers...
JSON & JSONB in Active Record & PostgreSQL
A quick look at Active Record JSON & JSONB.
Python & Ruby, a Comparison
I've been a long-time Ruby developer and more recently have been doing a metric ton of Python work. My goal with this post is to compare the relative pros and cons of each language as I've seen them. This was a difficult post to write, because of the deeply subjective...
SQLAlchemy Hybrid Properties Intro
When working with database-powered applications, it's often common to want to have a field on a data model that is a computed rather than static value; "computed" is just a fancy way to say calculated or evaluated on the fly. Developers new to SQLAlchemy tend to go...
WWDC 2020 Wishlist
This year’s WWDC is a little weird for everyone involved. Hell, the entire year has just been weird. WWDC is still happening virtually on June 22nd and there promises to be an interesting one from a product release perspective - ARM Mac? New iMac body? Headphones? Oh...
Where are all the Rustaceans?
Rust was all the hype in coding circles for a while, but why didn’t the adoption materialize?
About Me
Hi! I’m Mike! I’m a software engineer who codes at The Mad Botter INC. You might know me from Coder Radio or The Mike Dominick Show. Drop me a line if you’re interested in having some custom mobile or web development done.
