The age of AI is among us, and everyone is rushing to build new systems that will allow one person to act like twenty. The allure is clear: The time savings on solving any of these problems would be massive,…
If you’ve used the internet at any point in your life (how are you reading this otherwise?), you’ve likely come across someone who harasses, spams, or just in general bothers you. And when this happens, whether it’s a spam email…
Documentation and how it rots If you’ve ever had to manage documentation in a large codebase, you know how quickly it “rots”. Who takes the time to ensure the README.md still makes sense 6 months into a project, whether your…
Humans are social and curious creatures — and so it is no surprise that when we browse the web, we are drawn to places like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Discord, TikTok, internet forums, and more (Threads?). Joining these communities is a…
One of the coolest features of git, and code hosting services in general (e.g. Github, Bitbucket, etc) is the concept of forking a repository of code. The idea is that you can go to a project that is open source…
On platforms like Reddit, users are free to create their own “subreddit” communities around a location, topic, idea, really anything (e.g. reddit.com/r/michigan, reddit.com/r/pics, etc), and as long as the community name in question is not taken, they can “claim” it.…
Wherever we have forums or communities, we have moderators. It seems a fact as old as the internet itself — whether you are on an old phpBB forum, a Subreddit, a Discord server, Hacker News, etc, moderators are the curators…
I’ve had a few requests to go over setting up a Wildcard SSL cert, especially as it relates to things like CDN’s, subdomains, etc. So I wanted to put a guide out there so people can get help for an issue…
One of the most common things I hear when talking to other programmers is that they struggle to finish their side projects. Many have multiple apps that have gotten about 50% of the way completed, and then were abandoned for…
I’ve been trying to add SSL to all my “major” rails websites in an effort to increase security, especially since Google will start taking HTTPS into account with page-ranks. Since most if not all of these apps run on Heroku,…
