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Weekly Dev Notes 10/10/2021

Oct. 10, 2021

These are some links that I've captured over the last week. These are things either that I want to read more about or share with the world.

I hope AWS Cloud Control leads to more consistent releases of APIs for new AWS features. I always get excited...

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Weekly Dev Notes 10/03/2021

Oct. 3, 2021

These are some links that I've captured over the last week. These are things either that I want to read more about or share with the world.

Nice to have different options available other than code-server (nothing against code-server):
https://github...

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Zig <> Crystal

Apr. 7, 2021

Recently, I have been looking at Zig as a way to build fast C-native libraries for slower languages like Ruby. While I'm familar with Ruby, I wanted to try C-native libraries with another language, like Crystal instead. There are a couple different...

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QuickJS - Compiling hello.c

Mar. 26, 2021

Out of an interest of getting QuickJS bindings working in Crystal, I needed to figure out how to compile the hello.c which has the bare bones C implementation needed to start from. This is how I did it:

curl -O -L https://bellard.org/quickjs/quickjs...

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SK6812 with Arduino using NeoPixel Library

Sep. 20, 2020

I was having a hard time finding straight forward documentation/code on configuring SK6812 RBGW strips with an Arduino. The sites that I found typically had code errors or lacked documentation for getting it configured. Hopefully this will save someone...

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ESXi Binaries with Rust

Sep. 20, 2020

I've always been wanting to run applications on a ESXi console. These ambitions grew as I started learning more and more about AWS over the last 10 years. I've dreamt of building an environment that I could use to learn about how AWS does what it does...

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FactoryBot Tips

Jul. 30, 2020

Using FactoryBot bots outside of Rails Projects is as simple as

rails c -e test
include FactoryBot::Syntax::Methods
FactoryBot.find_definitions
FactoryBot.definition_file_paths << 'new/path/to/factories' # only needed if default paths don't suffice

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