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05/15/2019

Herding Cats: The Todo List

Finding a tool to tame the chaos when you're new to an Agency setting and responsible for organizing "all the things".

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05/14/2019

How To Use Slack To Maintain A Team Reading List

Having a clean and focused reading channel in Slack allows us a sanctioned place for in-depth discussion and news sharing.

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05/07/2019

Fixup your Code Reviews with git rebase --autosquash

Git rebase flows result in clean history. Squashing code review fixups into the PR make it hard to see what changed. Rietta devs use --autosquash instead.

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04/22/2019

How to Use git reset

Git reset can unstage changes, undo commits, or selectively revert changes with --patch. Learn the differences between reset, reset --soft, and reset --patch.

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01/28/2019

Storing currency in PostgreSQL

There are different ways we can store currency in PostgreSQL, this blog post will cover the money and numeric type.

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11/27/2018

Prevent an Outdated and Broken bin/setup with This Simple Trick

How often do you run this `bin/setup` if it's only ran when you set up your repo? Most developers setup their environment only every once in awhile. What happens when changes to the codebase happen and the bin/setup isn't modified as well?

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09/06/2018

Writing a good bin/setup

What it takes to write a project setup script to ease on-boarding headaches and reduce company overhead

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08/21/2018

Automatically Migrate from Factory Girl to Factory Bot

Gem updates are tedious. Gem name changes are even more tedious. This quick script converts Factory Girl references to Factory Bot references.

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08/07/2018

Deep Work and Remote Work

Cal Newport's concept of deep work explains why distraction-free focus produces a developer's best work, and why remote work makes it easier to achieve.

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07/18/2018

Automate Scheduled Security Scans With CircleCI

How to configure CircleCI scheduled workflows to run bundler-audit nightly, catching new CVEs in dependencies even on days without a git push to your repo.

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