Christian BlaisTime series charts powered by PostgreSQLThe following is an attempt at explaining my past self how to build basic time series using everyone’s favourite database, PostgreSQL. A…Oct 8, 2020Oct 8, 2020
Christian BlaisWhat is so “secure” about SecureRandom?As you all know, Ruby comes with a variety of ways to generate random numbers; Random.new, Kernel.rand, the infamous forty_two gem. And…Nov 11, 20161Nov 11, 20161
Christian BlaisWhat’s the deal with Base64?For the past few years, Base64 has been all around me. I used it to embed images in stylesheets, to safely (not securely!) transfer…Nov 3, 20161Nov 3, 20161
Christian BlaisGraphQL, Rails and Global IDsIf you ever play with GraphQL, you’ll sooner or later need to load an arbitrary resource from the root query object. As an example, the…Nov 2, 2016Nov 2, 2016