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Dynamic ActiveModelSerializers

Jan. 25, 2023

I've used ActiveModelSerializers (AMS) for a long time. It's development history is unique as there are 3 different major branches of it with breaking changes per branch. I don't recommend that you use AMS anymore as there isn't a ton of development...

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Turn Off Caplocks Via Powershell

Dec. 30, 2022

As a VIM user I naturally gravigated towards using caplocks as something other than caplocks. I have no need for caplocks at all, therefore, I don't map it to another key. Without caplocks bound, it sometimes presents problems if a game or program...

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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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