Archive | March, 2012
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Ruby Freelancers Podcast: Ep8 Products

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backup gem

Using this on a few systems to sync directories to s3.

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split – rack powered a/b test library

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Funny voicemail transcription of a robo-call

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Freelance Freedom #250: Big Choices

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Brakeman

Rails security scanner. Great to run in CI.

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Rookies in the bike shed

And that's really the crux of this. It's not that most bike shed discussions have zero value, it's that they don't have value proportional to the energy expended debating them.
David Heinemeier Hansson

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jquery-ui-rails

This might be useful for Chirk HR in a few weeks as I work on the UI again.

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Chaos Monkey

a tool that randomly disables our production instances to make sure we can survive this common type of failure without any customer impact. The name comes from the idea of unleashing a wild monkey with a weapon in your data center (or cloud region) to randomly shoot down instances and chew through cables — all the while we continue serving our customers without interruption
Yury Izrailevsky, Netflix

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SEO click through rates for various results

Summary for the top 20

  1. 36.4%
  2. 12.5%
  3. 9.5%
  4. 7.9%
  5. 6.1%
  6. 4.1%
  7. 3.8%
  8. 3.5%
  9. 3.0%
  10. 2.2%
  11. 2.6%
  12. 1.5%
  13. 1.3%
  14. 1.1%
  15. 1.2%
  16. 1.2%
  17. 1.4%
  18. 1.3%
  19. 1.4%
  20. 1.4%

103.4% total and should be taken with a grain (block?) of salt but is good enough to make relative decisions.

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