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I recently came across an API where the JSON response body was decorated with HTML elements. It was definitely one of the more WTF things I've seen in a production app in a long time. This is the hallmark of a very junior level developer: solving the immediate problem without any consideration to how their present choices will affect the evolution of the product, or support additional use cases. In this post, I rant on this a bit.
Need to integrate your Rails app with a cluster on Bonsai Elasticsearch? This gem is for you!
I recently had a friend ask me if I could build her a quick and simple (and cheap) resume website. I don't usually do that kind of thing any more, especially not for free, but the engineer part of my brain started wondering how I cheaply I could realistically build something. This post covers my efforts to build a quick and easy site that would still look professional.