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Jun 15, 2022

Make descriptive URLs using friendly_id

This guide shows how to use the friendly_id gem on a posts scaffold so the title of the post is in the URL, and the history of the URL is remembered (so if the title of the post changes, old links will still work). Setup and Installation First make a new rails app…

Ruby On Rails

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Make descriptive URLs using friendly_id
Make descriptive URLs using friendly_id
Ruby On Rails

2 min read


Jun 12, 2022

How to set up an AWS Route 53 custom domain for your Heroku app

This guide shows you everything you need to set up a Route 53 domain with your Heroku app. It assumes you want to set up these styles of domains: www.example.com, example.com (naked domain; without the www), both with https (https as opposed to http). This guide assumes you already have: …

Heroku

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How to set up an AWS Route 53 custom domain for your Heroku app
How to set up an AWS Route 53 custom domain for your Heroku app
Heroku

4 min read


Apr 24, 2022

How to set up devise for rails 7

It’s easy to forget a step or two when setting up devise, so here’s a quick ‘how to’ setup devise. It’s not absolutely minimal, but it’s how I set things up for a new project. Here goes: First, create a user model, resource or scaffold. For example: rails g resource…

Ruby

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How to set up devise for rails 7
How to set up devise for rails 7
Ruby

3 min read


Mar 14, 2022

How to convert a bitmap (png, jpeg) to vector (svg) graphic on any operating system (mac, windows) quickly, easily, and for free

So you want to convert a bitmap image (perhaps a png or jpeg) into a vector graphic (e.g. an svg), you’ve clicked on a half dozen conversion websites, downloaded a bunch of applications full of promise, but you still haven’t gotten your elusive svg file. I feel your pain. Here’s…

Graphic Design

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How to convert a bitmap (png, jpeg) to vector (svg) graphic on any operating system (mac, windows)…
How to convert a bitmap (png, jpeg) to vector (svg) graphic on any operating system (mac, windows)…
Graphic Design

2 min read


Jun 13, 2021

Monitor the Performance of your Heroku Rails App with New Relic

Install the New Relic Heroku addon Install the New Relic Heroku addon for your application like so: heroku addons:create newrelic:wayne Here we use the free plan, wayne. Other plans are shown here. Careful, some of the larger plans aren’t cheap! Install the New Relic agent Now, install the New Relic agent, that is, simply install the gems and bundle. gem 'newrelic_rpm' …

Ruby On Rails

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Monitor the Performance of your Heroku Rails App with New Relic
Monitor the Performance of your Heroku Rails App with New Relic
Ruby On Rails

2 min read


Jun 13, 2021

How to use Sentry on Heroku to track errors on your ruby on rails application

Setting up Sentry In your terminal, as per Heroku instructions run: heroku addons:create sentry Now add these gems to your Gemfileand bundle: gem 'sentry-ruby' gem 'sentry-rails' Create a new initializer in /config/initializers/sentry.rb and inside, place the following: Sentry.init do |config| config.dsn = 'https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0' config.breadcrumbs_logger = [:active_support_logger, :http_logger] # To activate…

Ruby On Rails

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How to use Sentry Heroku adto track errors on your ruby on rails application
How to use Sentry Heroku adto track errors on your ruby on rails application
Ruby On Rails

3 min read


Apr 25, 2021

How to Install nvm, node and yarn for your Ruby on Rails Application

This gave me trouble — 2 days of it! — so when digging through some temporal c++ error messages became too much, I decided to un/reinstall everything and start over. So long as I had my package.json and yarn.lock files in tact (they were in source control), I’d be fine…

Ruby On Rails

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How to Install nvm, node and yarn for your Ruby on Rails Application
How to Install nvm, node and yarn for your Ruby on Rails Application
Ruby On Rails

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Aug 22, 2020

How to speed up (or slow down) a Facebook video

TL;DR In google chrome, simply: Press command + option + j on Mac (ctrl + shift + j on PC). This will open chrome dev tools In the window that just opened up, find the ‘Console’ tab and click on it Find the little flashing text cursor where you can…

Facebook

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How to change the speed of a Facebook video
How to change the speed of a Facebook video
Facebook

2 min read


Jul 11, 2020

Exploring Deep Neural Networks with Google DeepDream

Generative art — visually interesting phenomena produced with code — can take many forms. But few are as fascinating and insightful as Google’s DeepDream, which uses a neural network to reverse engineer images. This summarises discoveries made in a few hours’ playing around with the tool. NOTE: images are high-res…

Deepdream

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Understanding Neural Networks with Google DeepDream
Understanding Neural Networks with Google DeepDream
Deepdream

5 min read


Jun 5, 2020

How to put your R Shiny App on the Web using Heroku

There are numerous ways of getting your R Shiny app on to the web. Some are expensive, others are tedious, and most are finicky. Heroku is neither. Here’s a guide to deploying your R Shiny app to the web using Heroku. Heroku — what is it? Heroku allows you to think far less about DevOps…

R

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How to move your R Shiny app on to the web using Heroku
How to move your R Shiny app on to the web using Heroku
R

3 min read

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