Web programming notes newsletter

I'm a voracious reader and student of programming. Being mostly self-trained, I consider myself very much a life-long journeyman programmer. So every week I send the dev team at Staq a few links I've come across in my researches along with a few links here and there that inform my leadership philosophy. I also throw in occasional commentary.

I decided to create a mailing list where anyone else who is interested in these links and thoughts could signup. The content will mostly involve web programming and startup life, with a focus on Ruby, JavaScript, and cloud-based services.

I promise you'll get one email per week, at most, usually on a Friday, and I'll never do anything with this list other than send you web programming notes. (My first startup was after all an email overload management company!) You can signup using this form:

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I will also occasionally post the links to this blog (easy to do since TinyLetter makes a nice archive page of past emails). Below is a collection of the links I've sent to the team over the past year.

• The Twelve-Factor App
• Hexagonal architecture
• The Importance of One-on-One Meetings
• Getting Sikuli Script working with JRuby on the Mac
• The Clean Architecture
• AWS Redshift: How Amazon Changed The Game
• Mob Refactoring
• Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests!
• Your test suite is trying to tell you something
• Incremental Redesign with Rails
• BohConf 2013
• How to Write Good Error Messages
• 5 architecture anti-patterns and solutions for large Rails apps
• The value of Rails worst practices
• Principle of least privilege
• spin.js
• Writing Sensible Tests for Happiness
• 6 Ways to Remove Pain From Feature Testing in Ruby on Rails
• Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History
• Ruby Refactoring Cheatsheet
• Why cards are the future of the web
• How does Bundler do its magic?
• Michael Feathers: Avoid Null Checks by Replacing Finders with Tellers
• Tech companies: open allocation is your only real option.
• Programmers don’t need a union. We need a profession.
• Reading Rails - Concern
• Reading Rails - Migrations
• Life is a game. This is your strategy guide.
• Object Oriented Rails - Writing better controllers
• How Setting Aside Rails and Picking Up Padrino Might Make You a Better Ruby Developer
• Pry
• The Narcissism of Small Code Differences
• #275 How I Test - RailsCasts
• Slow Tests are the Symptom, not the Cause
• Back to Basics: HTTP Requests in Rails Apps
• Don't Stub the System Under Test
• Handling Associations on Null Objects
• Anti-Pattern: Iteratively Building a Collection
• Renderable Null Objects
• Why is it bad style to `rescue Exception => e` in Ruby?
• Comparing image with a capture with CasperJS
• Simple, Secure File Transmission
• PostgreSQL awesomeness for Rails developers
• HTTP and REST and Hypermedia
• Why I Did Not Go to Jail
• How to make your code imply responsibilities
• Rails Security Pitfalls
• Automating Flash, AJAX, Popups and more using Ruby, Watir and Sikuli
• propublica/upton
• rtomayko/replicate
• topfunky/gruff