Contre les grandes industries des pesticides, une femme s’élève

Another good book recommended by my godfather

A great read and lesson about design, and subway-legibility

Fine tuning spotlight, even after uninstalling Xcode

Om recommended me to listen to the book

Knowledge management, shared by Patrick Motard at Zendesk

Shared by Juris

this post is about someone’s experience going through it

Another recommendation by Alex Robson at Zendesk.

it’s good to have a grasp on the fundamentals of the protocol, especially as we introduce additional services that will be communicating across the protocol. While “swagger/json api” seems like it would be good enough, there are gaps in that specification that assume you understand things built into HTTP.

An interesting approach to exposing microservices through GraphQL

Another dev setup that I should explore. Shared by Christopher Atkins at Zendesk.

Another good read shared by David Zuckerman at Zendesk

A good write up on architecture decision, shared by Jon Moter at Zendesk

TIL that you can post a collapsible comment on GitHub.

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A good collection of web tools (article in French)

Very interesting checklist (as seen from lobste.rs)

Follow up with the previous link, if I want to run system test cases in Rails using:

class ApplicationSystemTestCase < ActionDispatch::SystemTestCase
  driven_by :selenium, using: :headless_firefox, screen_size: [1400, 1400]
end

Then I need to install Firefox, as well as fonts, so that the screenshots are rendered properly.

apk add xvfb firefox ttf-dejavu

(note: fonts are required for Firefox to render pages)

A great article for using docker-compose as a dev environment for rails

An excellent article, with perhaps the best quote:

To generalize, the spending-and-employment trend has gone like this: Wealthy people didn’t go on vacations in 2020. So their spending fell, and their savings went up. And the employees who would have served them on that vacation lost their jobs, only kept above water by enhanced unemployment benefits.

Following The Computer Backup Rule of Three I'm finally getting around creating my backup workflow. So far, what's working for me is:

• 3 copies of everything I care: two hard drives + B2 Cloud Storage for the last copy (currently spending $1 / month for 200 GB of data)
• 2 different formats (hard drive + cloud backup)
• 1 off-site backup (cloud backup)

But first I needed to de-duplicate my multiple (previous) backups. That's where the combo czkafka (discovered thanks to sebsauvage) + the venerable rsync come in play.

1. Copy everything to HDD no. 1
2. Ensure a copy of all the files is rsync'ed to HDD no. 2
3. Work through de-duplicates in HDD no. 1 using czkawka
4. Once satisfied, another rsync with --delete to sync the dedup to HDD no. 2
5. Upload final backup to B2 Cloud Storage

It helps that I archive documents and photos by year. So I can create a TAR file and upload, per year, to B2. I know no more content will be created for that year (well, until I can get back in time).