Alex Peattie

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Updates from Alex Peattie – Engineering leader and former founder, based in Paris.

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Quick tip: simple unique jobs on Solid Queue #Tech #Software #Engineering
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Feb 23, 2025
Testing Kamal Locally with Multipass #Tech #DevOps #OpenSource
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Feb 15, 2025
Establishing the minimum number of guesses needed to (always) win Wordle #WordGames #Puzzles #Math
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Jan 25, 2022
Quickly associate all source code files with your editor in macOS using duti #macOS #DeveloperTools #OpenSource
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Apr 19, 2021
Making HTTP requests with Deno #Deno #Programming #WebDev
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Jun 11, 2020
PSA: Don't use cssnano from within postcss-loader #WebDevelopment #CSS #Programming
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Jun 7, 2020
Quick tip: Loading a plain IRB session with no syntax highlighting or multiline editing in Ruby 2.7+ #Ruby #Programming #DeveloperTools
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Jun 4, 2020
How to load local PostCSS plugins with postcss-loader #WebDev #CSS #PostCSS
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Jun 2, 2020
Stop forgetting your foreign key indexes in Rails with this simple post-migration script #RubyOnRails #Database #Developer
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Jan 18, 2017
Quick tip: Set the default controllerAs to vm for .component() in Angular 1.5+ #Angular #JavaScript #WebDev
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Feb 15, 2016
Signing a CSR with an ECDSA key in Ruby #Ruby #Security #Programming
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Feb 9, 2016
Rails tip - Grouping ActiveRecord objects by day or week using datetrunc #RubyOnRails #Database #Programming
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Feb 1, 2016
Retiring two old projects - animate-textshadow.js and CSS floating feedback button #WebDev #JavaScript #CSS
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Jan 3, 2016
Handling strong parameters in Devise 3.1+ #Ruby #Rails #Devise
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Feb 16, 2014
Better GitHub-style syntax highlighting with Rouge #Programming #Code #DevTools
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Jun 4, 2013
Cross-domain communication without CORS #WebDev #Programming #Security
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Feb 1, 2013
Why you might want to silence console.log #Programming #WebDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering
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Jan 12, 2013
Two awesome APIs you probably haven't heard of: SharedCount and RESTMailer #Tech #APIs #Developer
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Dec 3, 2012
How a seaweed expert and a screw-up helped win WWII #History #WWII #Science
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Nov 6, 2012
TwilioCon 2012 #Tech #Conferences #Networking
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Oct 24, 2012
Two quick tips to speed up Rails 3 on Heroku #RubyOnRails #WebDevelopment #Performance
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Aug 13, 2012
Teaching computers to rap #AI #Music #CreativeTech
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Jun 19, 2012
jQuery gotcha: visibility vs. :visible #WebDev #JavaScript #Coding
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May 22, 2012
GitHub-style syntax highlighting with Pygments #Programming #Code #Python
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Apr 8, 2012
Site redesign #WebDesign #PersonalBlog #Tech
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Mar 1, 2012
Defining versions in Ruby gems #Ruby #Programming #Gems
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Feb 4, 2012
Improve JS performance with $.noop #JavaScript #Performance #WebDev
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Nov 3, 2011
New projects - CSS feedback button & animate-textshadow #WebDev #CSS #Frontend
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Jun 5, 2011
JustVector Icons update (v1.5) #Design #Icons #VectorGraphics
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Apr 14, 2011
Working with dates in Git #Git #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming
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Mar 11, 2011