Simon Taranto

@simon_taranto@robot.villas

Simon Taranto's archived writing on Rails, software development, analytics, and building products.

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Better Rails Logs: Current User Request Context #RubyOnRails #SoftwareDevelopment #Logging
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May 18, 2018
Getting Started With Analytics and Marketing Automation for Ruby Apps #Ruby #Analytics #Marketing
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Feb 20, 2018
Using Rails' MessageVerifier for Stateless Token Management #RubyOnRails #SoftwareDevelopment #Security
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Oct 1, 2017
Getting Started with Event Sourcing in Postgres #SoftwareDevelopment #Postgres #EventSourcing
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Jul 26, 2017
Building and Deploying Ruby Docker Images with CircleCI and Heroku #Ruby #Docker #DevOps
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Jul 9, 2017
Tracking and Analyzing Emails Using Webhooks #Webhooks #Analytics #SoftwareDevelopment
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Jun 5, 2017
Building a Rack::Attack Dashboard #RubyOnRails #SoftwareDevelopment #Analytics
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May 7, 2017
Configuring a Static Website on AWS with Terraform #CloudComputing #DevOps #WebDevelopment
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Oct 31, 2016
Refactoring Towards Repositories #SoftwareDevelopment #Rails #Programming
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Oct 27, 2016
Tuning AWS SQS Job Queues #CloudComputing #SoftwareDevelopment #DevOps
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Sep 25, 2016
Find and Replace in Vim Without Plugins #Vim #Editor #TextEditing
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Jun 5, 2016
Adding a Boolean Column to an Existing Table with Alembic and SQLAlchemy #Python #Database #DevOps
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Jun 5, 2016
HATEOAS with Ember Data #Rails #Emberjs #HATEOAS
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Apr 1, 2015
Datetime Parsing with Go #GoLang #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Jan 11, 2015
Speed Up JavaScript Capybara Specs by Blacklisting URLs #Rails #SoftwareDevelopment #Testing
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Nov 23, 2014
Postgres Window Functions #Postgres #SQL #Database
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Sep 17, 2014
An Introduction to Go Tools and Clean Code #GoLang #SoftwareDevelopment #CleanCode
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Sep 7, 2014
Writing Functional SQL in PostreSQL: Don't do it #SQL #PostgreSQL #Database
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Sep 7, 2014
Why Postgres Won't Always Use an Index #Postgres #Database #SQL
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Aug 11, 2014
Workflows for Writing Migrations With Rollbacks in Mind #Rails #SoftwareDevelopment #Database
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Jun 2, 2014
Refactoring Ruby Iteration Patterns to the Database #Ruby #SoftwareDevelopment #Database
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Apr 16, 2014
Stuck? Get into the pairing mentality #SoftwareDevelopment #PairProgramming #Productivity
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Mar 26, 2014
N + 101: an example query optimization #SoftwareDevelopment #Rails #Database
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Feb 15, 2014
Writing and deploying multiple Rails apps with Nginx #Rails #Nginx #SoftwareDevelopment
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Feb 6, 2014
Doing more than deploying code in a git post-receive hook #SoftwareDevelopment #Git #DevOps
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Jan 23, 2014
How ActiveRecord casts params before validation #Rails #Ruby #SoftwareDevelopment
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Jan 11, 2014
Using Postgresql's tsrange Range Type with Rails #Rails #PostgreSQL #Database
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Dec 31, 2013
It all comes together: Ruby, JS, and functional programming #Ruby #JavaScript #Programming
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Dec 11, 2013
rails_12factor logging problems #Rails #SoftwareDevelopment #Logging
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Dec 5, 2013
What I learned setting up delayed_paperclip and Sidekiq #RubyOnRails #SoftwareDevelopment #Tech
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Nov 18, 2013
A refactoring epiphany #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #Refactoring
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Nov 15, 2013
99 bottles of robots: our first code retreat #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #Robotics
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Oct 28, 2013
Array arithmetic in Ruby #Ruby #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Oct 22, 2013
Run a single Minitest test #Ruby #Minitest #SoftwareDevelopment
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Oct 21, 2013
Cleaning up require statements with Ruby's $: global variable #Ruby #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Oct 18, 2013
Testing Sinatra apps with Capybara and Minitest #SoftwareDevelopment #Testing #Ruby
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Oct 18, 2013
A primer on Bundler basics #Ruby #Rails #Dev
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Oct 17, 2013
Set a default rake task #Ruby #Rails #Dev
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Oct 16, 2013
Focus Week Reflection #SoftwareDevelopment #Productivity #Reflection
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Oct 11, 2013
The power of hashes: why thinking about your problem matters #SoftwareDevelopment #ProblemSolving #Rails
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Oct 4, 2013