Adarsh Pandit's Blog

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Oct 12, 2016

Use an Underscore When Memoizing in Ruby

Let other developers know you don't want them to use your internals

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Sep 30, 2016

On Growing Great Developers

How to Set Up An Apprenticeship Program to Grow Great Developers

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Nov 16, 2015

Save Money and Be Happier by Updating Your Gems Every Monday Morning

An approach to avoiding the technical debt of gem drift

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Nov 9, 2015

Bundler Failing on El Capitan

How to fix OpenSSL header issues after upgrading to OS X El Capitan

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Nov 4, 2015

How to Turn Sales Leads into Awesome Paid Work

Some tactics on how to close sales leads without feeling gross

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Oct 31, 2015

How to Generate Sales Leads as a Freelance Developer

Using networking and productivity tactics to generate sales interest

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Oct 30, 2015

Run a Profitable Business as a Freelance Developer Consultant

Reflections on what has worked well for me in freelance consulting

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Jun 15, 2015

Automate Gem Vulnerability Checks

Add bundle-audit to CircleCI to automate gem security checking

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May 28, 2015

Testing Active Job Error Handling

How to write tests for ActiveJob's error handling behavior

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May 27, 2015

Using GlobalID with Alternative Primary Keys

Monkeypatching `.find` in ActiveRecord models can lead to confusion

Sep 24, 2014

Why I'm finally investing in Apple

I might be the last person to do so, but I'm finally buying

Jul 16, 2014

Let Your Code Speak For Itself

Comments are like playing telephone. Avoid them with clearer method names.

Nov 23, 2013

Ruby and Python Libraries for Yammer's API

API HTTP wrappers for Yammer

Aug 11, 2013

Detropia

Another great Detroit documentary

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Aug 11, 2013

Importing WordPress Blog

How to import a WordPress blog into Octopress

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Aug 8, 2013

Setting up Google Analytics with Octopress

Analytics in five seconds

Aug 8, 2013

Episode 4, A New Blog

How to import a WordPress blog into Octopress

Aug 8, 2013

I'm out, Facebook

I closed my facebook account. Here's why.

Jun 13, 2013

The History of HJKL

Why Bill Joy chose HJKL as the directional keys for Vim

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May 28, 2013

How to Get a Job As a Rails Developer

A concise guide to getting a job as a Rails developer

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Apr 29, 2013

RailsConf 2013 TDD Workshop

Harlow Ward and I presented a workshop on Test-Driven Development

Apr 18, 2013

Vim Splits

Move faster and more naturally through your Vim splits

Nov 16, 2012

Lightning Talk on Bundler

What a "twiddle-waka" is and why it's important to your app

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Oct 29, 2012

CareerHoot Interview

My friend Andrew Chen interviews me about my career transitions

Sep 27, 2012

Don’t Repeat Your Ruby Constants in Javascript

DRY up your application by using Ruby constants in your JavaScript

Sep 26, 2012

Writing a Launch Agent for Apple's launchd

A script to find files in ~/Downloads which haven’t been modified within the past week and move them into ~/.Trash.

Aug 30, 2012

Using Writing Smells to Refactor Your Email

Emails can be refactored just like code.

May 3, 2012

Come Correct with Inject and Collect

Use Ruby's sweet enumerable methods for fun and profit

Apr 6, 2012

Testing before filters

How to test `before_filter` methods in Rails

Feb 22, 2012

Anonymizing User, Company, and Location Data Using Faker

Often during development it is useful to have realistic data to get a sense of how an app would behave in the wild.

Jan 13, 2012

Song of the Day: Washed Out - "Feel it all around"

SOTD looks at the theme song for Portlandia

Jan 1, 2012

Song of the Day - Jenny Lewis "Rise Up with Fists"

SOTD sticks it to the man

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Feb 19, 2009

Google Reader as a networking tool

Using networking and productivity tactics to generate sales interest

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Jan 8, 2009

The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep

The Slow Death of Detroit

Jan 4, 2009

The Lions - The final straw in the decline of Detroit in 2008

The Lions - The final straw in the decline of Detroit