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Working life is the best thing

29 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
We’ve been led to believe going to work is awful. It pervades popular culture. Radio DJs, people around you, conversations at random places. Weekends...

Changing more than one commit message in git

~1 month ago by joost on Space Babies.
Okay, there are a ton of tutorials about this subject online, but none of them are quite as succinct as mine. Also, most are fairly out of date or just...

Yo dawg, I heard you liked NoSQL…

2 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
so I put No SQL in your SQL! Or something along those lines. My point: some concepts in NoSQL are easy to implement in SQL. I’ve been using the Rails...

The daily WTF

3 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Don’t do this: if starts_at < starts_at.at_beginning_of_day + 6.hours # do something end do this: if starts_at.hour < 6 # do something easier...

Twelve minutes of your time

4 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Please spend twelve minutes of your time and watch this video. It is a very important video to watch, certainly this decade, maybe further back than that...

Twelve minutes of your time

4 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Please spend twelve minutes of your time and watch this video. It is a very important video to watch, certainly this decade, maybe further back than that...

Twelve minutes of your time

4 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Please spend twelve minutes of your time and watch this video. It is a very important video to watch, certainly one of the most significant videos of this...

Using a bit field and scopes like a boss

4 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
I’m a big fan of FlagShihTzu. It allows me to combine a number of boolean attributes into one database column, saving a number of columns, indexes...

Z@ppelin iPad app’s massive success

5 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
I’ve been lucky enough to to be involved in the Z@ppelin iPad app as the back-end programmer. The app has seen tremendous success and is one of the...

Unlocking education, for growth without limits

5 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Recently a new movement has sprang up in the Netherlands pushing education towards Open Source. In education, proprietary software is the norm. I think...