TILs - Fueling Curiosity, One Insight at a Time

Today I came to know that the name of process which takes care of clipboard is called pboard on mac. If clipboard is acting funny, just kill this process!

while tesing with enzyme if you are unit testing your component method with component.instance().methodName() always double check if the method that you are testing have access to "this" variable manually. Currently even if it does not have "this" access the test will pass

You can create a quick screencast using hangouts and then share the video as a private youtube video

fresh_when, more here https://medium.com/rubyinside/https-medium-com-wintermeyer-caching-in-ruby-on-rails-5-2-d72e1ddf848c

emacs has a "M-x base64-encode-region"

In ruby you can use any single non alpha numeric character as delimiter for % notation. The following are all same %(foo bar); %w[foo bar]; %w%foo bar%; %w$foo bar$; And many more. https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Syntax/Literals#The_%_Notation

git bundle https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bundle

Rails 5 prevents accidental halting of the callbacks. In order to explicitly halt, we can make use of throw(:abort) in the callback chain.

Sidekiq by default does 25 retries (about 21 days) based on exponential back off formula ie. to retry multiple times with exponential delays. If need be, we can explicitly configure max_retries in sidekiq.yml.