Fueling Curiosity, One Insight at a Time

This accessibility cheatsheet is pretty good https://bitsofco.de/the-accessibility-cheatsheet/

don't use new webpack.optimize.ModuleConcatenationPlugin() in development env, causes memory leak in webpack 3 and build fails

rspec-rails will lazy load puma from version 3.7.1

[ANN] used in mailing list is an abbreviation of 'Announcement'

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2006/04/18/understanding-ruby-blocks-procs-and-methods covers very basic and interesting stuff.

gitlab does triple dot for compare instead of double dot

Sometimes we may need to create a new github/bitbucket account for a new client project. Because we've already linked out laptop's SSH key to our original account, we can't link it again to this new account. In such cases, instead of using tools to switch ssh keys, you can generate a keypair just for this project and set an environment variable GIT_SSH_COMMAND='ssh -i new_ssh_keys_dir/id_rsa' and run git commands like usual. Bonus tip: Use direnv to automatically load this environment variable when navigating to the project directory.

Rails encrypted secrets https://www.engineyard.com/blog/encrypted-rails-secrets-on-rails-5.1

MySQL does not support transactional ddl. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/cannot-roll-back.html

Omniauth setup phase - request time modification of strategy https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth/wiki/setup-phase