No post last weeks - had to take a break. Learning that rest is important, even when there’s lots to do.
WordPress Got Humadroid’s landing page rewritten in WordPress to let Bartek edit content without my help. Big thanks to Ilia and Florin from inntech who handled it. The frontend is super fast, but I was surprised how slow the admin side has become - making complex changes is really painful.
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.
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: