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).

Great article shared by Jason Smale at Zendesk. Echoes the more recent article from Camille Fournier, Make Boring Plans.

TL;DR yet, but overall interesting article on how FAANG are trying to "domesticate" their users

Another presentation of RBS

TIL about transactional email

TIL that Ruby 3 added a measure built-in tool

A good article. Especially the part about a vacation being a break from what you usually do, and as such it’s unlikely that you will stay idle even after FIRE-ing.

This article made me discover the temporal platform, by the original creators of cadence at Uber.

Here are a few differences as explained on SO

To learn more about Ruby newest feature: Ractor

Interesting article about Elixir and Phoenix. Maybe something to dive into when I'm writing my next pet project.

That is an excellent list that I wish I had when I started my career

System design as a broader view, shared by Jon Moter (Zendesk)

Interesting collection of projects

I did not go through all of the article, but so far it looks like a great explanation of Sales Tax vs. Value Added Tax (VAT)

EDIT

Well, it looks like the author might have some incorrect points, as stated in this HN comment