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• Medium Is To Message As Tool Is To Workflow

  People who work remote nonetheless share office space. But the office space is virtual, not physical, and its architect is Marshall McLuhan. The current worldwide experiment in remote work, forced by the pandemic and informed by very little advance planning, is going to be a lot less painful for people who understand this.

• Vector Capitalism & Vector Protest

  Block Together is shutting down.

• Home Alone

  There are probably plenty of people walking around with undiagnosed COVID-19 in the United States right now.

• Blog Retrospective

  I have mixed feelings about blogging.

• One-Liner for git mv

  Here’s a one-liner for changing a bunch of filenames all at once.

• "Should I Dish Up My Rails Front End With Webpack, Webpacker, Bundler, or the Asset Pipeline?"

  I saw this comment online somewhere: “What I really don’t understand is what exactly webpacking does.” A lot of Rails developers feel that way. But it’s easy enough to clear up.

• Easily Clean Your Git Branches

  Ever had text fill your entire terminal window when all you did was a quick git branch? Here’s a quick pair of scripts which solves that problem by making it a simple matter of muscle memory to keep your repo completely clean.

• Automated Gratitude at Scale

  I recently decided to individually thank each and every one of the top 100 contributors to Rails, and I wrote some software to make it feasible.

• MVP Code-Splitting in Rails with Webpacker

  Webpack can do impressive minimization based on static analysis. The Elm compiler can even exclude functions from your final payload for the end user based on whether those functions are used in your code or not. But it’s extremely easy to get the low-hanging fruit version of this in your Rails app with nothing fancier than Webpacker.

• 3 lessons from launching my own products as a dev

  In 2010, I began an experiment which transformed my career for years to come.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Oscar Del Ben & Josh Kalderimis (#65)

  Oscar Del Ben and Josh Kalderimis are tied for the #65 contributor to Rails by commits. Let’s dig into their work and then thank them.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Gannon McGibbon (#67)

  For the #67 contributor to Rails, Gannon McGibbon, the most common term in his commits is merge.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Tobias Lütke (#68)

  Tobias Lütke, CEO and co-founder of Shopify, is the #68 contributor to Rails.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Tarmo Tänav (#69)

  The #69 contributor to Rails is Tarmo Tänav from Estonia.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Alexey Vakhov and Bogdan Gusiev (#70)

  It’s a tie with an Eastern European theme for the #70 contributor to Rails as of this moment. Ukraine’s Bogdan Gusiev and Russia’s Alexey Vakhov share the spot.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Hongli Lai (#72)

  The #72 contributor to Rails is Hongli Lai. Best known for his work on Phusion Passenger — the official preferred deployment solution for Rails from 2009 to at least 2016 — Hongli is a CTO, consultant, and entrepreneur based in Amsterdam.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Alan Guo Xiang Tan (#73)

  It’s been a couple weeks, but today I’m highlighting the Rails contributions of Alan Guo Xiang Tan. And btw, I’ve had to upgrade my software for this project. Thanking every one of the top 100 Rails contributors is more complex than I thought it would be.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Vishnu Atrai (#74)

  Here’s a post thanking Vishnu Atrai for his contributions to Rails.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Sven Fuchs (#75)

  Today I’m thanking Sven Fuchs for his contributions to Rails.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Akshay Vishnoi (#76)

  The #79 Rails committer is Akshay Vishnoi.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Jason Noble (#77)

  With 107 commits under his belt, the #78 Rails committer is Jason Noble.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Thomas Fuchs (#78)

  Thomas Fuchs is the #78 Rails committer.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Jaime Iniesta (#79)

  At 103 commits, the #79 Rails committer is Jaime Iniesta.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Damien Mathieu (#80)

  Damien Mathieu is the #80 Rails committer by commits.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Stefan Kaes (#81)

  Continuing the countdown, the #81 Rails committer by commits is Stefan Kaes.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: utilum, Juanito Fatas (#82)

  The #82 slot in the top 100 Rails committers by commits is shared by utilum and Juanito Fatas, with 97 commits each.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Ernie Miller (#84)

  It’s time to give some well-earned props to Ernie Miller, number 84 on the top 100 Rails contributors.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Mehmet Emin İnaç, Rizwan Reza (#85)

  Mehmet Emin İnaç and Rizwan Reza both hold the #85 position among the top 100 Rails contributors. Both have committed to Rails 92 times. Their commits range throughout the code base, showing expertise throughout the framework.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Kir Shatrov (#87)

  Today I’m giving some recognition to Kir Shatrov, number 87 on the top 100 Rails contributors.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Cheah Chu Yeow (#88)

  Cheah Chu Yeow is number 88 in the top 100 Rails contributors. He made 88 commits between 2007 and 2012.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Koichi Ito & John J. Wang (#89)

  In the top 100 Rails contributors, Koichi Ito and John J. Wang are tied at number 89, with 85 commits each. They were active in different years and even different countries, but both improved Rails’s level of code quality.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Aditya Kapoor (#91)

  With 83 commits, Aditya Kapoor holds the number 91 position on the official list of top 100 Rails contributors.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Leon Breedt and Raimonds Simanovskis (#92)

  On the official list of top 100 Rails contributors, two devs share the number 92 slot: Leon Breedt and Raimonds Simanovskis. Both have racked up 82 Rails commits. Let’s look at their contributions.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Kuldeep Aggarwal (#94)

  Next in my series of thank-you posts for the top 100 Rails contributors: Kuldeep Aggarwal, number 94, with 81 commits from 2013 to 2016.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: thedarkone (#95)

  Continuing my series of thank-you posts for the top 100 Rails contributors, we come to an enigmatic figure known as thedarkone. Seriously, their GitHub lists no contact info, no web site, no name, no social media, and no email.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Rohit Arondekar, Genadi Samokovarov, and Gonçalo Silva (#96)

  Number 96 in the official Rails list of top contributors of all time is a three-way tie between Rohit Arondekar, Genadi Samokovarov, and Gonçalo Silva. Just like the contributors site, I’ll look at each contributor in alphabetical order.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Aditya Sanghi (#99)

  Today I’m highlighting the contributions of Aditya Sanghi to Rails.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Agis Anastasopoulos (#100)

  A couple days ago, I took up a challenge from a tweet.

• Top 100 Rails Committers: Paul Keen (#100 on GitHub)

  Let’s look at the contributions of Paul Keen, #100 in the top 100 Rails committers by commits (on GitHub).