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Jekyll with Footnotes

06 May 2013

None of Jekyll's Markdown renderers support footnotes out of the box, but a RedCarpet fork has the feature.

Tips for a successful switch to a standing desk

02 May 2013

I've been standing while I work for over two years now, but the transition wasn't easy. Here are some tips on how to transition successfully.

Changeloggin'

22 Apr 2013

It's been quieter around these parts lately, but that's not because I haven't been writing.

Be Careful When You Create a Unified SSL Certificate for Nginx

08 Apr 2013

If one of the files doesn't have a newline at the end then you will run into an error.

Name That Trend - Nose Dive Edition

07 Mar 2013

Fall, baby, fall

Easy 'Share-Nothing' WordPress Blog Syndication on Rails

01 Mar 2013

There are many ways to skin the syndicate-a-wordpress-blog-content-in-your-rails-based-app cat. This is an easy one.

The Curious Case of ActiveRecord Matching Yesterday's Events Even Though I Told it Not To

19 Feb 2013

We uncovered a Strange Thing when working on Omahype's event listings.

CLOC Counts Lines of Code

12 Feb 2013

If you ever find yourself in a foreign code base and want to get a quick overview of how much code is in it, cloc is just the tool for the job.

A Casual Stroll Through Discourse's Source Code

11 Feb 2013

Any time I see an open source app which has technically intriguing bits, I take some time to clone it and give it a quick read-through. Let's do that!

Rate Limit POST Requests with Rack::Throttle

03 Feb 2013

Rack::Throttle is an awesome piece of middleware for rate limiting your app's clients. You can easily extend it to apply any rules you need, such as only limiting certain request types.

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