As a child, I was forbidden by my teachers from using Wikipedia for school reports, because it was not “reliable” and more importantly, I would miss out on the valuable experience of visiting a public library (fewer scholarly resources existed online, back then). Fast forward ten years later, Wikipedia jumped…

Washington — During a White House Press conference, Trump reportedly blasted the loser press for reporting the news. One journalist asked Trump to clarify his recent locker talk statements, calling immigrants animals, Trump fired back: “Ever seen a real animal? I was grabbing a turkey and believe me, it was…

As Israeli forces wound a record 2,400 Gazans and kill 52 people in one day, I am compelled to write about my own political journey. I was a proud Israel activist and Zionist long before I started questioning the actions of my beloved Israel. It was a painful journey. Before…

In short, use explicit module namespacing or avoid complex namespacing as often as possible when inheriting classes. Class and Module constants depends on order of autoload-paths lookup (a Ruby on Rails feature), more on that below. Because of this, class discoverability can vary depending on the name and location of…

Information, and soon: Chelsea Manning will be free… At any point between 2004 and 2017, a range between 400,000 to 500,000 United States Army soldiers are on active duty. In 2003, The US invaded Iraq. The largest anti war protests in global history mobilized against the war — without success…