ShakaCode blog - productivity

GitHub Made Pull Request Stacks Visible. Now Test Every Layer

GitHub can show how pull requests fit into a stack. ShakaPerf adds the missing proof: visual checks for each layer and the finished stack.

Teach Me With Analogies: The AI Prompt That Makes Hard Things Actually Click

Most 'explain this' AI prompts hand you a wall of text you nod along to and forget. Here's a copy-paste prompt that forces the AI to teach with analogies, quiz you after each one, and keep going until you can explain it back. Plus how to reuse it for any codebase, PR, or concept.

Tips and ideas on how to make the code review process as simple and painless as it can be — both for those reviewing and those preparing the code for review

Tips to buy Apple gear with the maximum extended warranty.

How I Almost Fell for Phishing!

I take some pride in being “tech savy” enough that I would never fall for phishing.

Best-practices for upgrading Ruby on Rails gems to newer versions while saving time and avoiding headaches.

tmux, tmuxinator, and iTerm2 tips for productivity with Rails Development

Tutorial and example of using Jetbrain's RubyMine and IntelliJ's interactive regexp search and replace.

How and why on migration from bash to zsh on Mac OS.

Useful tools for Chrome with CoffeeScript

A quick guide to installing discourse to see a production quality rails project on github.

Clean logging and error handling is a critical aspect of a RoR app. What’s a good strategy? Why does this matter?