Planet Arkency

Which version of this Ruby code would you prefer to see in your codebase?

  def properties_names_hash
    out = {}
    properties.each do |property|
      out[property.name] = property.original_name
    end
    out
  end

or

def properties_names_hash…

How I lost trust to programmers when I was 13

My first programming jobs started when I was 19. However, this wasn’t my first contact with the IT market. It’s only now that I realise that I was a a CTO when I was 13 years old!

The biggest Rails code smell you should avoid to keep your app healthy

Single Threaded Development

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

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?

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…

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…

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.