programming

Below are all of the posts with the programming tag. A post tagged with programming means that it is about programming. If a post references programming but does not have the tag, then the post will not be in the list below. If a post has the programming tag or mentions programming, then it will be in the Glossary for "programming".

I have ordered the posts from newest to oldest:

2023-05-17 Unfurling of Issue Reference Abbreviations in Github and other Git Forge Issues
Making it Easier to Minimize Risk of Information Loss
2023-05-17 Configuring Emacs to Automatically Prompt Me to Define the Type of Commit
Adding a Function to Help Establish a Habit
2023-05-07 These Are the Tools I Know I Know
Have Toolbox, Will Share
2023-05-07 Completion at Point Function (CAPF) for Org-Mode Links
Leveraging cape and org-element-map
2023-04-16 I am Presenting at Rails Conference 2023
Come Join Me and Share Your Tools
2023-04-03 Responding to “Things Your Editor Should Have”
Invest in Your Tools
2023-04-02 Make the Feedback Fast
…Then Get the Fast Feedback
2023-04-02 Take on Recursion Redux
Thanking a Reader and Adding Some Recursion Testing Strategies
2023-03-27 Expanding on using Tree Sitter in Emacs for Getting Qualified Ruby Method Name
Minor Refinements of a Recently Created Function
2023-03-26 Responsible and Sustainable Overrides in Ruby and Samvera in General
My Presentation for Samvera Connect 2022
2023-03-26 Closing the Knowledge Gap and Lightening the Load
Somedays You Just Can’t Get Rid of a Bomb
2023-03-26 Determining All of the Descendents of a Ruby Class
A Real World Example to Help Understand a Data Model and Possible Discrepency
2023-03-25 Using Built-in Emacs 29 Tree Sitter Package to Get Qualified Ruby Function Name
A Rainy Day Coding Practice Session
2023-03-18 Creating an Emacs Function to Create Yardoc Stubs
When One Pathway Fails, Try Another
2023-03-08 Coloring Regular Expression via Modus Themes for Treesit Faces
Adding a Bit More Color to My Baseline Theme
2023-02-28 Utilizing Ruby’s Delegate Method
Working with the Principle of Least Knowledge
2023-02-28 Adding Consistent Color to Emacs Mode Line and iTerm Tab for Various Projects
An Evening of Hacking to Provide Visual Clues for Varying Contexts
2023-02-25 My Lesser Sung Packages of Emacs
Spending a Bit of Time Sharing Some Perhaps Lesser-Known Packages
2023-02-13 Adding Complex Keyboard Modifications via Karabiner as an Emacs Experiment
Drawing Inspiration from Others
2023-02-11 Custom Org-Mode Capture Function for Annotating Bad Code
Something Borrowed, Something Old, and Something New
2023-02-10 Thinking Through Capturing and Annotating “Bad” Code
First Steps in Following up on Morning Coffee Talk Inspiration
2023-02-07 To Rob a Fox…
In Programming, Don’t Let Clever Trample Understanding
2023-02-07 Refactoring a Ruby Module to a Class
Setting up a Few Straw Dog Examples
2023-01-31 Building on My Project Notes and Dispatch Emacs “Package”
Accretion of Functionality Through Crafting and Extending
2023-01-29 Emacs Windows Configuration Desired State
From Deliberation to Liberation (in the Minutia of My Tools)
2023-01-26 SoftServ - Software Services for Life Science Research Companies
Proud to Be Part of Scientist.Com
2023-01-12 Using the Git Interactive Staging as a Moment to Facilitate Synthesis
Revisiting Past Writings, Further Describing Personal Workflow, and Issuing and Admonition
2023-01-10 How to Grow Programmer Instincts to Help You Avoid Bad Pathways
Or, How Does One Share Lessons Now Internalized?
2023-01-09 Reflections on the Skills That Have Helped Me Continue as a Developer
Hint, It’s Not About Chasing New Technology
2022-12-18 Walkthrough of my Project Workspace Functionality
Moving Quickly to Project Work Spaces
2022-12-14 Using Git Bisect and Other Commands to Determine When Something Was Removed
Quickly Sleuthing through a Code Base
2022-12-09 Playbook Article for Upgrading a Gem within a Ruby Application
Leveraging Checklists to Guide the Work
2022-11-19 Project Dispatch Menu with Org Mode Metadata, Denote, and Transient
Creating a Means of Quickly Navigating Amongst a Projects Important “Pages”
2022-10-24 Adding a Function to Carry Forward an Org-Mode Agenda Item
Delving into org-mode and org-element-map
2022-10-16 Adding Another Function to My Workflow
Going down the Blogosphere Rabbit Hole to Find Further Inspiration
2022-10-16 Revisiting the Principles of My Text Editor
My Text Editor Must Facilitate My Engagement with the Ever Evolving Digital Aspect of My Life
2022-10-12 Analysis and Preliminary Work for Importing Functionality from Another Project
Adventist Analysis for AARKD ID (Slugs) Work
2022-10-09 Denote Emacs Configuration
A Literate Configuration
2022-10-06 On Breaking Down Larger Projects
A Meditation on a Question Often Asked of Me
2022-10-04 Analyzing Rails Application Code to Consider for Extraction into a Gem
Lifting the Custom Slugs Functionality from one Application into a Generalized-ish Solution
2022-10-03 Public and Private APIs versus Public and Private Methods
Using API Declaration to State Intention
2022-10-03 Ruby Memoization and Checking if Defined
Exploring the Implementation Details of Instance Variables
2022-10-02 Migration Plan for Org-Roam Notes to Denote
Laying Out a Game Plan
2022-10-01 Exploring the Denote Emacs Package
Some Analsysis of Features
2022-09-28 Leveraging Commit Messages as Pull Request Text
Favor Information in Commit Messages over Web Conversations
2022-09-27 A Walk Through of a Code Sleuthing Exercise
Using a myriad of tools to orient
2022-09-26 The How of Take on Rules
An Overview of How I Make this Site
2022-09-06 Org Mode Capture Templates and Time Tracking
Sharing My Workflow and Tooling
2022-08-24 Everyday Custom Git Commands
Paying Attention to What I Repeat…And Documenting It
2022-08-23 Differentiating Ruby’s Classes and Objects
Delving into the Foundational Distinctions
2022-08-22 Joining Scientist.com's SoftServ Team
A Quick Introduction to my Role and the Technology
2022-08-01 Today I Learned about Difftastic
Adding Another Tool for Code Review and Comparison
2022-07-30 Commit Messages Do Matter
Responding to Those Who Say They Don’t
2022-07-20 On Ruby Keyword Args, Structs, Splat, and Double Splat Operators (Oh My!)
Dissecting an Approach to Solving a Coding Challenge I Encountered in the Wild
2022-07-15 SQL Proof of Concept for Collating Different Article Feed Selection Criteria for DEV.to
Scratching Down Some Ideas to Share
2022-07-06 Responsible Monkey Patching of Ruby Methods
Steps for Patching in a Responsible Manner
2022-07-03 That Time When the Only Test and Development Environment Was Production
If You Can Habitualize One Thing as a Developer It Is Create Quick Feedback Loops
2022-06-15 A Second Walk Through of Composing a SQL Query
Showing my Work as I Query a Forem Instance
2022-06-12 Walk Through of Using Postgresql and Blazer to Generate a Cohort Report
Step-wise Composing Larger Queries from Smaller Queries
2022-06-05 Redefining Ruby Instance Methods at Runtime
Or With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
2022-06-04 Leveraging Instance Variables in Ruby Classes
Hint - Prefer Methods over Instance Variables
2022-06-03 Adding Reproducible Randomization to SQL Queries
Or How I Spent an Afternoon Building Out More Creases for Extensibility in Forem’s Feed Query
2022-06-01 Using Ruby to Merge Traveller and Stars without Number System Generators
Or How to Use Your Hobby to Keep your Professional Skills Sharp
2022-05-14 Benefits of Having a Call Method for Your Ruby Object
Exploiting Ruby’s Object Model to Ease Collaboration
2022-04-29 On Sharpening Your Tools
Using a Tool and Knowing Its Uses Are Not the Same
2022-04-28 Working on Open Source Community Software Is My Job
And How to Hopefully Create Win/Win/Win Scenarios
2022-04-23 Diving into Dev's Relevancy Feed Builder
SQL Composition by Configuration
2022-04-02 Org-Mode, Git Logs, and Org-Babel for Running Reports
Feeding the Personal Knowledge Management System
2022-04-01 Application Exception Handling in Rails
A Quick Tour through (Some of the) Layers of Propagation
2022-03-31 Today I Learned - Carrier Wave and How to Test Uploading a New Image to a ActiveRecord::Base Model
Managing Object State is Hard
2022-03-29 The Three Caches of Forem
A Quick Tour of Our Favorite Performance Enhancing Pain Point
2022-03-19 Regarding Documentation: A Letter to My Earlier Selfs
Apologies, Confessions, and Meanderings
2022-03-17 The Why and How of Yardoc
Inching Along the Never Ending Path of Improving of Documentation.
2022-03-13 Further Into Emacs with Pcase, Backquotes, and Commas
The Continuing Adventures of Writing to Learn
2022-01-17 Switching from Company to Corfu for Emacs Completion
Thinking Through the Principle of Discovery
2022-01-13 Emacs Packages to Get Stuff Done
Recording and Replaying Keystrokes
2022-01-11 Resolving an Unable to Resolve Link Error for Org Mode in Emacs
Documenting to Share a Solution
2022-01-03 Forem Feed Experiment One
January Results
2021-12-20 The Serendipity of Pairing with a New Developer
Learning as I Watch Others Navigate Their Toolbox
2021-12-02 Ruby Script to Find Local Branches with Deleted Remotes
Pivoting from One Strategy to Another
2021-11-29 Keeping the Stakes Low while Breaking Production
Using Existing Tooling to Make Changes Reversible
2021-11-18 Gently Embracing Different Regular Expression Approaches in Ruby
A Straight-Forward Problem with Three Different Approaches
2021-11-13 Send Anything in OS X to Emacs for Editing
Hacking Away with Hammerspoon and editWithEmacs
2021-11-10 Further Hacking on Emacs for Github Pull Requests
You Ain’t Emacs-ing if You Ain’t Always Hacking Your Config
2021-11-05 Emacs Function to Open Magit Log PR at Point
A Quick Hack to Help My Code Spelunking
2021-11-03 Building and Documenting a Nuanced ActiveRecord Approach
Or How I’m Working to Improve the Feed Relevance of DEV.to
2021-10-28 Practicing Postgresql and Postulating (Im)Provements
Returning Again to Databases
2021-08-28 Whipping Up a Quick Emacs Helper Function for Hugo
Continuing to Build Out Utility Functions
2021-08-26 Adding More Tag Rendering Functions for SHR in Emacs
Adding More Default Styles of Browsers
2021-08-23 Diving into the Implementation of Subject Menus for Org Roam
It’s Macros, Functions, and Property Lists…Oh My!
2021-08-22 Ever Further Refinements of Org Roam Usage
Leveraging Some Org Roam Version 2 Changes
2021-08-03 Using Magit Built-in Functions for Workflow
Improving on a Hacked Together Function Using Magit
2021-08-02 Emacs Script to Review Git Status of Repositories
Generating a Quasi-TODO List for a Common Mental Model Task
2021-06-17 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-17)
Campaign Play, Mystery, and Group Mythology
2021-06-08 Further Molding Emacs to Reinforce Habits
It Ain’t Emacs if You Ain’t Hacking on Your Config Daily
2021-06-07 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-07)
A Mix of Old and New Gaming and Software
2021-06-07 Molding Emacs to Reinforce Habits I Want to Develop
But Also, Don’t Go Out and Implement a Bunch of Things
2021-05-20 Emacs Function to Rename Hugo Blog Post
Writing a Function to Practice Lisp and Complete an Uncommon Task
2021-05-17 Responding to “How to be a senior Engineer?”
For me, it’s about Communication and Mentoring
2021-02-20 Technology Doomed to Repeat Itself
Second Verse, Same as the First, Just a Little Bit Worse
2021-02-11 Posts that Caught My Attention
Two Dots Daring Me To Connect Them
2021-02-05 To the Ghosts, Haunt Elsewhere
This Blog and My Coding Image Is Not For Sale
2021-01-27 On Plain Old Boring HTML
And The Hubris of Disruption
2020-12-28 Probability of Stabilizing the Dying in “Stars without Number”
Another Foray into Probability and Computations
2020-12-20 Many Small Tools Make Light Work (in Emacs)
Stiching Together YASnippet, Hugo Short Codes, Shell Commands, and YAML Files in Emacs
2020-11-11 Synchronizing OSX, Terminal, and Emacs Dark/Light Appearance
Composing Shell, Applescript, and Emacs Eval
2020-10-30 Reducing Duplication in my Emacs Config
Learning from One Small Refactor
2020-10-24 Visual Changes to Take on Rules
Minor Tweaks to Colors and Hover State
2020-10-18 Why I Chose Emacs as My New Text Editor
Hint: I Took the Time to Build What I Needed
2020-05-25 Principles of My Text Editor
Once Again Exploring a Different Solution
2020-05-20 Today I Learned (May 20th 2020 Edition)
Learning Some New Distributed Tech
2020-05-20 Connecting to Bridgy for backfeed and POSSE service
Using Standards to Connect Conversations
2020-05-09 Documenting Decisions to Build Buy-In
Don’t Rely on a Group’s Memory, Write It Down
2020-05-05 Pushing Simplicity Around
Or the Old Adage: There’s No Such Thing As a Free Lunch
2020-05-04 The Joys of a Simple Site
Keeping Simple So It Doesn’t Become a Burden
2020-05-02 Adding Webmention Features
Providing a Framework for Citation and Conversation
2020-05-01 Hugo Tips and Tricks #1
Transforming Dynamic Data via Dispatch Strategy and Set Logic
2020-04-26 Free Time During a Pandemic: Three Weeks Later
Writing Software, Retelling Folktales, Reading Camus and Leiber
2020-04-19 Software to Migrate Data from Square to Shopify
2019-12-20 Influences on my Blog's Design
Waxing philosophical about marginalia, unique and durable tables, pedantic tests, javascript, and updates.
2019-09-05 Why Hugo when I'm A Rubyist
2019-08-24 Exposing More Metadata for Take on Rules
2019-08-17 Ruby Script to Extract Post for RPGGeek
2019-08-07 Adding a “Stars without Number” Dataset for gm-notepad
2019-07-26 Introducing GM Notepad: A Command Line Tool for GM-ing
2019-07-14 The How and the Why of Indices of Game Crunch
2018-12-18 Building Scripts for my Website
2018-11-20 Own Your Tools
2018-10-31 My Blogging Engine
2012-04-16 At the Intersection of Work, Play, and Learning
2011-06-15 It's Only a Model