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Encryption cooked wrong or why not all top search result gems are equally aiding

Sep 7, 2019 · Disclaimer I don't blame aes gem creator for doing anything wrong consciously. It was written 8 years ago, it never gained enough traction to be actually reviewed by someone who knew how such a gem should look liker, it is just accidentaly happened ...

Testing Factory Bot sequences

Jul 19, 2019 · Once I was working on a feature that was a validation for UUID of a certain entity that matched the regular expression of /^ENT-\d\d\d\.\d\d\d\.\d\d\d$/. It was a Rails project with RSpec and FactoryBot. I wrote the code and tests for the feature and...

Myopic rationality of software kludge

May 31, 2019 · TL;DR People love with their eyes, not their minds. They usually don't estimate what they don't see or comprehend, so without of proper voice of reason, software project turns into cruft pretty quickly. It seems rational to do so in the short-term, b...

Vim in modernity - why and why not

May 30, 2019 · I am a Vim acolyte now. I haven't always been one. First I used simple Gedit but it started to raise frustration in me. It was too bare-bones and I needed to switch context over and over to do some simple tasks like rerunning the server, playing with...

Mockery of agile

May 29, 2019 · Here is a little ironic reflection on the 12 principles of Agile Manifesto. Scroll to the end of the page to read serious content. Making fun of methodology Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of val...