Elm Enlightenment: Raycasting with Bresenham’s Algorithm
Design Front-End Full-Stack WebI'm (https://jweissman.github.io/mandos), and I wanted to illuminate a circle of light around the character, to reveal the visible parts of...
A Rubyist’s Perspective on Testing in Swift
Back-End Full-Stack Web iOSI took a week-long hacking vacation (“hackcation”?) to start an iOS app side project. I learned testing in Ruby, which is known for the...
Elixir and IO Lists, Part 2: IO Lists in Phoenix
Back-End Full-Stack WebElixir's IO lists are one of the secrets to blazing response times in the Phoenix framework. Here's how.
Elixir and IO Lists, Part 1: Building Output Efficiently
Back-End Full-Stack WebErlang's IO Lists enable Elixir to very efficiently write to files and sockets. But do you know how to use them?
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: How to Decompose Your Code
Back-End Full-Stack Web Leveling UpMaybe you're convinced of the value of breaking large chunks of code into smaller pieces, but are you familiar with the different ways it...
Elixir and Unicode, Part 2: Working with Unicode Strings
Back-End Full-Stack WebUnicode strings are multi-layered things, which makes comparing them, traversing them and transforming them a bit more complicated than with ASCII. Learn how to...
Creating Ember Blueprints
Front-End Full-Stack WebEmber-CLI Blueprints are a powerful tool to help your team move efficiently and effectively when working on large projects. In this post, we'll walk...
Elixir and Unicode, Part 1: Unicode and UTF-8 Explained
Back-End Full-Stack WebYou may know that Elixir has great Unicode support. But how? Let's see how Unicode and UTF-8 actually work and how Elixir is able...
Catching Strong Params Problems Early
Back-End Full-Stack WebIf only there was a way to have Rails raise an error when an unexpected parameter is encountered out by strong params... Actually, there...
Generators: Rick Astley and the Sequence of Fibonacci
Front-End Full-Stack WebOn the internet, there are two things that are totally played out—Rick Astley and the Fibonnaci sequence. But finally, in one blog post, they...
A Brighter Day: Testing your Sunspot Searches, Unit-Style
Back-End Full-Stack WebEvery complex backend server eventually needs three things -- emails, workers and searching. At the Ranch, we like to whip out Solr for handling...
Authorizing jsonapi_resources, Part 2: Policies
Back-End Full-Stack WebIn the last post on authorizing jsonapi_resources, we began looking into adding authorization rules to `jsonapi_resources` web services. We worked on a sample web...
