CODING

• Found a nice Ruby gem (actually it was recommended to me in this Xitter thread) - procore-oss/blueprinter which seems to be a very nice serializer (JSON Object Presenter) for Ruby. As I was implementing API for Humadroid recently with Time-To-Market in mind, I’ve actually settled on Grape & Grape Entity, but when we’ll be creating v2 of it in bigger team, we’ll most likely look for alternatives and blueprinter looks like a solid contender.

Quick Learnings

PRODUCT

• Vacation policies can be hard. We’ve decided not to solve all the problems and leave some flexibility for the users. Automation is important, but people are people and sometimes just manual adjustment is worth more than covering any possible use case.

HARDWARE

Trying to restart this blog, one thing at a time. For quite some time I wanted to start publishing some smaller blobs I find interesting, but giving each and everyone a post seemed wasteful. That’s why I’ve decided to publish my weekly learnings and findings - some links, some thoughts from development, some API methods I haven’t used before. Without further ado, here it is for the first time.

This week I’ve learned: