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Using go modules for dependencies while still using older tooling that doesn’t support modules yet.

or: how you can deploy services to Kubernetes that require long periods of draining.

Well, it’s been more than 7 years since I’ve blogged, but I’ve collected a pretty large list of topics.

I spent some time hacking around in Chrome the other day because I have been extremely frustrated with the behavior of the downloads …

John Roos of Roos Roast designed an excellent blend of coffee for Great Lakes Ruby Bash. John started Roos Roast while selling cars at Dunning Subaru. I met him there when I bought my WRX, when he gave me a free pound of coffee with my car.

Ruby’s Array has 2 methods for sorting: sort and sort_by. Both methods sort your array (obviously) but they do it in slightly different ways. Background This article is based on a talk I gave at the Ann Arbor Ruby Brigade in August.

Introduction In a duck-typed language like Ruby, it’s very important that you actually use duck typing. This is especially important when you’re designing a library or other code that could interact with objects that you don’t control.

Recently I was adding new user registration to tasteb.in and I wanted my users to be automatically logged in as soon as they created their account. I’m using merb for tasteb.

I had a bit of trouble with Disqus where it would only display a link saying “Discuss this topic on Disqus” instead of displaying an actual comment form. It turns out that this problem was caused by a mismatch between the URL configured in Disqus and the url where my blog was actually accessible.

I’ve been working on a Merb-based recipe paste site for the past couple weeks called tasteb.in. It’s extremely simple for now. It lets you paste recipes in a very simple format and they show up on the site.