Planet Arkency

Doing more on reads vs writes

What do you like more in your application? Handling complexity when reading the data or when updating it?

Imagine you have a model such as Product with three potential date attributes:

• publication_on - Nominal date of…

Using singleton objects as default arguments in Ruby

Sometimes you would like to define a method which takes an optional argument, but the programmer might pass nil. And your code needs to distinguish between the value not being provided (default value) and nil. How can it be achieved?

Offline Sandwich

Distractions are bad. Distractions make you dumber. Eliminating distractions is impossible. We can try to contain them instead of eliminating them.

Offline sandwich is a way to structure your workday in a way that you put distractions into their boxes, thus giving yourself…

Guide to setup testing React.js components with Jest in Rails+Webpacker+Webpack environment

Around a month ago, I worked on a task, which required a more dynamic frontend behavior. I worked on a component with 2 selects and 2 date pickers and depending on what was…

Using Snapchat for project-related communication

Single Threaded Development

I’m currently trying to evaluate an idea — let’s call it Single Threaded Development, where a single team…

One simple trick to make Event Sourcing click

Event Sourcing is like having two methods when previously there was one. There — I’ve said it.

But it isn’t my idea at all.

What taking care of your teeth has in common with programming?

I don’t need to tell you why brushing your teeth and going to a dentist with a regular time manner is an important thing.

Why blog as a software developer?

5 reasons to blog as a programmer