AkitaOnRails Blog - Archives

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2018 - October

• THE CONF - 2018 Edition Report

2018 - July

• [Off-Topic] The Pity Evolution of Modern Society

2018 - April

• Running Arch Linux over Windows 10!
• [SmallTips] Running GitLab CI Runner Locally

2018 - January

• My Notes about a Production-grade Ruby on Rails Deployment on Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine

2017 - December

• Cryptocurrencies: Is it a Bubble? Does it Matter?

2017 - November

• From 10k and Beyond: Discussing Crypto Currencies
• From Microsoft to Apple, and Back Again
• THE CONF 2017 - All the Recordings!
• How does Bitcoin force consensus among Byzantine generals?

2017 - October

• [Beginner] Long live PhantomJS, let’s use Chrome Headless now
• How NOT to zero out your Pusher development quota
• [Beginner] Trying out Rails 5.1.x
• Replacing RVM/Rbenv/Nvm/etc for ASDF
• THE CONF - 2017 Edition Report

2017 - September

• Windows Subsystem for Linux is good, but not enough yet

2017 - August

• [Off-Topic] Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies in Brazil
• Why it is just lazy to bad-mouth Ruby on Rails

2017 - July

• Upcoming built-in Upload Solution for Rails 5.2 (ActiveStorage)

2017 - June

• Rails 5.1 Deployment Checklist for Heroku
• Estimates are Promises - A Better Metaphor
• The Economics of Software Development
• Starting with Blender
• Ex Manga Downloadr - Part 7: Properly dealing with large Collections
• Ex Manga Downloadr - Part 6: The Rise of FLOW
• [Off-Topic] Talent Is Highly Overrated: Humanizing Einstein and Killing Gods
• Appearing on Podcasts
• Conference Talks, Interviews, and the Pen!

2017 - May

• Programmers Guild - Religion and Sports

2017 - March

• Enabling Optimus NVIDIA GPU on the Dell XPS 15 with Linux, even on Battery

2017 - February

• [Off-Topic] Carpe Diem and the Myths of Happiness

2017 - January

• From the Macbook Pro to the Dell XPS. Arch Linux for Creative Pro Users
• Optimizing Linux for Slow Computers
• [Off-Topic] Why are we all moving away from Apple?
• Arch Linux - Best distro ever?
• Customizing Fedora 25 for Developers

2016 - December

• Ex Pusher Lite - Part 3 - A Complete Solution
• Elixir Phoenix App deployed into a Load Balanced DigitalOcean setup
• Coherence and ExAdmin - Devise and ActiveAdmin for Phoenix

2016 - November

• 3 Months of GitLab. The Hybrid-SaaS Era
• [Off-Topic] Learning Statistics
• Matches, Rankings, The Social Network, League of Legends, and Ruby?

2016 - October

• Ruby on Rails implementation of a (proper) Ranking/Popularity system
• [Discussion] Can we protect our work from DNS providers suffering DDoS attacks?
• Natural Language Generation in Ruby (with JRuby + SimpleNLG)
• THE CONF Initiative
• Sharing models between Rails Apps - Part 2
• Sharing models between Rails Apps - Part 1

2016 - September

• The Next 10 Years
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial on Vagrant on Vmware Fusion

2016 - August

• The Ruby Community and Reputation
• Choosing MatterMost over Rocket.chat and Slack
• Hacking Mattermost Team Edition
• Moving away from Pivotal Tracker to Fulcrum. Good Enough.
• Moving away from Slack into Rocket.chat. Good Enough.
• Moving to GitLab! Yes, it’s worth it!

2016 - July

• Updating my Old Posts on Uploads
• The Year of Linux on the Desktop - It’s Usable!
• Trying to match C-based Fast Blank with Crystal

2016 - June

• [Manga-Downloadr] Improving the Crystal/Ruby from bursts to pool stream
• [Manga-Downloadr] Porting from Crystal to Ruby (and a bit of JRuby)
• Small Experiment with Rails over JRuby 9.x on Heroku

2016 - May

• Flirting with Crystal, a Rubyist Perspective
• Rails has won: The Elephant in the Room

2016 - April

• [Off-Topic] Free Software: An Exercise in CAPITALISM
• [Off-Topic] If You Need “Validation,” You’re Probably Wrong
• The Year of Linux on the Desktop, by Microsoft??

2016 - March

• War is Over, or is it? A New Dawn for Microsoft
• Improving your Microservices Integration Performance with Memcache and ETAGs
• Is your Rails app ready for Production?

2016 - February

• Elixir Pipe Operator for Ruby: Chainable Methods

2015 - December

• Fixing DHH’s Rails 5 Chat Demo
• Ex Pusher Lite - Part 2 - First Working Core!
• Ex Pusher Lite - Part 1: Phoenix Channels and Rails apps
• Erlang’s Ping Pong (tut15) in Clojure and Elixir
• Ex Manga Downloadr - Part 5: Making it more robust!
• Ex Manga Downloadr - Part 4: Learning through Refactoring
• The Obligatory “Flame War” Phoenix vs Node.js
• Ex Manga Downloadr - Part 3: Mangafox Support!
• The Obligatory “Why Elixir?” Personal Take

2015 - November

• “Yocto Services”! And My First Month with Elixir!
• Elixir 101 - Introducing the Syntax
• ExMessenger Exercise: Understanding Nodes in Elixir
• Observing Processes in Elixir - The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook
• Phoenix “15 Minute Blog” comparison to Ruby on Rails
• Ex Manga Downloadr - Part 2: Poolboy to the rescue!
• Ex Manga Downloader, an exercise with Elixir
• Brazil Situation: No Macs for the Rest of Us
• My first week learning Elixir

2015 - January

• [Off-Topic] Compilation: “Processes and Methodologies Won’t Help You!”

2014 - December

• [Off-Topic] Talking with a University Professor

2014 - November

• [Small Bites/Off-Topic] “People over Processes” — what are “People”?

2014 - October

• The New Kid on the Block for Ruby Servers: Raptor!
• [Off-Topic] 3D Printing, the Legend?

2014 - September

• [Off-Topic] Agile: the Truth Behind the Method
• [Off-Topic] DO NOT Do What You (“THINK”) You Love

2014 - August

• [Off-Topic] First Time in São Paulo, What to do?

2014 - July

• [Off-Topic] Someone Important Left the Community! Now What??

2014 - May

• [Off-Topic] Career in Programming — Coding Isn’t Programming

2014 - March

• [Off-Topic] Commenting on the Approved Marco Civil
• [Off-Topic] Breaking Bad was a very successful startup
• [Off-Topic] Lean Is Dead, Long Live Efficiency

2014 - February

• [Off-Topic] The New Generation’s Dilemma: start a company or get a job?

2013 - November

• [Off-Topic] Remote Work — Small Office, Home Office (SoHo)
• [Off-Topic] Tech Startups, B2C overcrowding. Boring.
• [Off-Topic] Programmers Are Terrible Communicators (UDP vs TCP)
• [Off-Topic] Agile Done Wrong

2013 - October

• [Translation] Letter to a Young Programmer Considering a Startup
• [Off-Topic] Math, Trolls, Haters, and Internet Discussions
• Rubyconf Brasil 2014 - Dates are Set!
• [Off-Topic] #noEstimates Debunked

2013 - August

• Rubyconf Brasil 2013: Meet Luis Cipriani
• Rubyconf Brasil 2013: Meet Carlos Galdino
• [Off-Topic] Estimates Are Promises. Promises Must Be Kept.
• Rubyconf Brasil 2013: Meet William PotHix
• Rubyconf Brasil 2013: Meet Bruno AbstractJ
• Rubyconf Brasil 2013: Meet Danilo Sato
• Rubyconf Brasil 2013: Meet Eduardo Shiota
• Rubyconf Brasil 2013: Your first time in São Paulo, Brazil
• Rubyconf Brasil 2013: Meet Hongli Lai
• Rubyconf Brasil 2013: Jaime Andrés Dávila
• Rubyconf Brasil 2013: Meet Caike Souza
• Rubyconf Brasil 2013: Meet Pablo Astigarraga
• Rubyconf Brasil 2013: Meet Hal Fulton

2013 - July

• [Off-Topic] Comfort Zone: Taking to the Streets Isn’t the Only Solution
• Predictably Irrational

2013 - June

• Introduction to Agility
• Processes, Methodologies, and the Human Brain
• What Does It Mean to Be a Manager?

2013 - May

• [Off-Topic] A View from the Past About the Internet
• [Off-Topic] A View from the Past About the Internet
• Processes and Methodologies Won’t Help You
• [Translation] Standards: excellence vs. mediocrity
• [Off-Topic] People: Rational Animals? The id and ego in marketing
• Brazilian Portuguese Can Confuse Us: Standard vs Pattern

2013 - April

• [Translation] Estimation — The Best We Can Do

2013 - March

• [Off-Topic] Most people said they’d use my product. Will it work? No!

2013 - January

• [Off-Topic] The World Today Is Very Good! Happy 2013!

2012 - December

• [Off-Topic] A Vent III, Reflecting on 2007

2012 - November

• Startup Journey 2012

2012 - September

• _Why, Ruby Dramas, and Dynamiting Courtlandt
• _Why Documentary at Rubyconf 2012, Denver
• Ruby is Beautiful? What is Beauty?
• RubyConf Brasil 2012 - It’s a Wrap!

2012 - August

• [Off-Topic] The Myth of the “Legacy”

2012 - July

• [English] Minimal I18n with Rails 3.2
• Registration are Open for Rubyconf Brazil 2012

2012 - May

• [Off-Topic] Great Artists Steal
• [Off-Topic] Reading with subtitles over Kanjis in Japanese webpages

2011 - December

• [Off-Topic] New Year’s Message — Philosophy

2011 - November

• [Journey to Japan #3] Exclusive Video Interviews

2011 - September

• RubyConf Brazil 2011 is coming!

2011 - August

• [Journey to Japan #2] The Final RubyKaigi

2011 - July

• [Journey to Japan #1] Exploring Tokyo City
• Upcoming: Journey to Japan

2011 - May

• [Off-Topic] Opinions, Truths, Democracy and Ethics

2011 - April

• [Off-Topic] Mea Culpa: Democratic Organizations Don’t Work
• [Objective-C] Distributing your Static Library
• [Objective-C] Categories, Static Libraries and Gotchas
• [Objective-C] It’s a Unix System! I know this!

2011 - February

• [Off-Topic] Demystifying the “Evil” Microsoft
• [Off-Topic] The Fountainhead: Howard Roark’s Defense
• [Off-Topic] Atlas Shrugged: Is Money the Root of All Evil?

2011 - January

• [Documentary] The iPod Revolution

2010 - September

• RubyConf Brazil is Coming up!

2010 - June

• [Off-Topic] Jeff Patton and Megan Fox in the same post?
• [RailsConf 2010] - Video Interview - David Hansson
• [RailsConf 2010] - Video Interviews - Part 2
• [RailsConf 2010] - Video Interviews - Part 1
• [RailsConf 2010] - Video Interview - Robert Martin (English)

2010 - April

• [Off-Topic] The Humble Programmer, by Edsger W. Dijkstra

2010 - March

• [Off-Topic] Penn & Teller and Larry Flynt, on Freedom

2010 - February

• [Off-Topic] Wake up Call

2010 - January

• [Off-Topic] Reading the Agile Principles
• [Off-Topic] Companies, People, Success
• [Off-Topic] Who’s the Idiot?
• Off-Topic: Literature for Agile Managers
• [Off Topic] Dunbar and Cross Functional Teams

2009 - December

• [Off Topic] Watch Out for Kanban-butt
• [Off-Topic] You Don’t Understand Anything About Scrum

2009 - November

• [Off-Topic] Restaurants and Technology
• Chatting with Adam Jacob
• Chatting with Luke Kanies
• [Off-Topic] Obedience to Authority
• [Off-Topic] Cell Phones and Airplanes
• [Off-Topic] The Problem of Credentials

2009 - September

• [Off-Topic] Thinking Makes You Better
• [Off-Topic] The Argument from Intimidation
• [Off-Topic] Man’s Rights
• [Off-Topic] The Cult of Gray Morality

2009 - August

• [Off-Topic] The Damn Regulation Law Is Back!

2009 - July

• [Off-Topic] All Marketers Are Liars
• [Translation] What Makes a Good Programmer?
• [Off-Topic] Bought My First Mac — Now What?
• [Off-Topic] Intervene or Not? The “Catch-22” of Co-Pilots
• [Off-Topic] Reference Books 2008-2009
• [Off-Topic] Agility, Chaos, Self-Organization
• [Off-Topic] Negotiable Scope Contract
• [Off-Topic] Authority vs. Responsibility

2009 - June

• [Off-Topic] Standards, Commodities, and Innovations
• [Translation] Advice for Software Development Managers

2009 - May

• [Off-Topic] The 5 Team Dysfunctions in Code
• RailsConf 09 - Ninh Grosenbach Bui
• RailsConf 09 - Message from Bryan Liles (TATFT) to Brazil
• RailsConf 09 - Exclusive Audio Interviews
• RailsConf 09 - Message from Peter Cooper to Ruby Inside Brazil
• RailsConf 09 - DHH - The Secret of Productivity
• RailsConf 09 - Uncle Bob - Professionalism
• RailsConf 09 - Uncle Bob Martin
• Going to RailsConf 2009

2009 - April

• Off-Topic: Should I Go to College?

2009 - March

• [Off-Topic] Net Negative Producing Programmer

2009 - February

• Translation: Flaccid Scrum

2008 - December

• Translation: Technical Debt
• Off-Topic: Scientific Method vs Cargo Cult

2008 - November

• QCon Special - Signing Off
• Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - Ola Bini (JRuby, Ioke)
• Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - John Straw (YellowPages.com) and Matt Aimonetti (Merb)
• Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - Nick Sieger (JRuby) and Francesco Cesarini (Erlang)
• Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - Jan Lehnardt and Chris Anderson from CouchDB
• Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - Yehuda Katz

2008 - October

• Off-Topic: Understanding the Economic Crisis
• Off-Topic: The Agile Manifesto, or How to Become Google

2008 - September

• Chatting with Joshua Peek
• Off-Topic: The Power of Myth, Redux

2008 - July

• Off Topic: Why Programmers Should Play Go
• Chatting with Luis Lavena (Ruby on Windows)

2008 - June

• Chatting with Blaine Cook (Twitter)

2008 - May

• Off-Topic: Bleeding for Rails! Part 2
• Off-Topic: Bleeding for Rails!
• Chatting with Hongli Lai and Ninh Bui (Phusion)

2008 - April

• Chatting with Chris Wanstrath (Err the Blog/Github)
• Off Topic: Let’s All Stop the Regulation of the Systems Analyst Profession
• Off Topic: Never Trust TIOBE
• Off-Topic: Google App Engine and Cloud Computing

2008 - March

• Off Topic: We Are Mathematically Illiterate

2008 - February

• Chatting with Scott Hanselman
• Chatting with Evan Phoenix
• Translation: I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know How to Get It

2008 - January

• Off Topic: “I Am Legend” - TERRIBLE!
• Chatting with Hal Fulton
• Chatting with Peter Cooper
• Chatting with Adrian Holovaty

2007 - December

• Chatting with Avi Bryant - Part 2
• Chatting with Avi Bryant - Part 1

2007 - November

• Chatting with John Lam (IronRuby)

2007 - September

• Translation: Counting Is a Waste of Time

2007 - August

• Off Topic: Pale Blue Dot
• Off Topic: Enemies of Reason
• The Sunk Cost Fallacy
• AkitaOnRails, Retrospective 1985-2007
• Chatting with Jamis Buck

2007 - July

• Chatting with Carl Youngblood

2007 - June

• Chatting with Ola Bini (JRuby Core Team Member)
• A Rant, Part II
• Off Topic: Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech, 2005

2007 - May

• Chatting with David Black
• Chatting with Chad Fowler

2007 - April

• Chatting with Geoffrey Grosenbach
• Chatting with Dr. Nic
• Off Topic: Be Arrogant!

2007 - March

• Off Topic: A Rant

2007 - February

• Getting Real Translation - Release Candidate 2 Launch

2007 - January

• Off Topic: “Here’s to the crazy ones …”
• Off-topic: MacWorld 2007 - Steve Jobs Announces the Long-Awaited iPhone!
• Off-topic: MacWorld 2007 - Steve Jobs Keynote

2006 - October

• Kathy Sierra: Dilbert and the Zone of Mediocrity

2006 - September

• Evolution Through Competition

2006 - April

• Rails Manifesto
• Welcome