As a software developer, I usually self-refer as a "Professional learner" and this book's subtitle ("What every programmer needs to know about cognition") caught my eye right away. The author, Felienne Hermans, does a fantastic job explaining how our brain processes new information and shares, what I found the most valuable and immediately applicable, scientifically … Continue reading Book review: The Programmer’s Brain
Existem algumas maneiras diferentes de desfazer as coisas no git, mas para o propósito deste post vamos considerar o seguinte cenário: um repositório com cópias locais e remotas vários colaboradores um commit recente que já foi adicionado ao repositório remoto ("merged", pra usar o termo "git" em inglês) mas que precisa ser revertido git revert … Continue reading Como reverter um commit no git
If your Python project has a very short list of required packages (in requirements, pipfile, etc), it's easy to see all packages you have. But on large projects, the dependencies can run pretty long, not to mention the dependencies for the required packages. And what about learning more about those dependencies? pip list Will list … Continue reading TIL: installed packages in Python – list, and show
There are a few different ways to undo things in git but for the purpose of this post we will stick with the following scenario: a repository with local and remote copies multi-person collaborators a recent change merged to remote (and potentially deployed) that needs to be reverted git revert to the rescue! ✨ TL; … Continue reading How to revert a commit in git
When you work on a codebase with other people, you need to manage your local branches: you need to ensure that when you push some code and create a merge/pull request on the remote branch, your changes will be easily integrated with the main codebase. And by "easily" I mean preferably without merge conflicts or … Continue reading Managing local git branches with git rebase
You are working with an API and after sending a request you receive one of these two HTTP response codes: 401 or 403. What do HTTP status codes 401 and 403 mean? Official specification If you search for the official specification, this is what you get: 401: Unauthorized The 401 (Unauthorized) status code indicates that the request … Continue reading The difference between HTTP status codes 401 and 403: Unauthorized and Forbidden
Most of you might be too young to know this but there was time that the phone in your house - not in your pocket! - would ring and gasp! you had no idea who was calling! You had to ANSWER the phone to find out. 🤦♀️ Now we have caller ID and know exactly … Continue reading A caller id for your python function
git stash allows you to save your work in progress out of your way
A few months ago I got a new computer and I have been very intentional about deciding what I install on it. From past experience I know that computers that are used as a development environment tend to get messy in no time since one might install all kinds of libraries, frameworks, dependencies, you name … Continue reading Developing inside a Docker container
The context Rails 5 introduced a big change in how it handles ActionController::Parameters (the parameters that you get on your Controllers): before Rails 5, if you called your params you would get a hash back and after Rails 5, you get a ActionController::Parameters object. You can see that by calling params.inspect and if you call … Continue reading How to permit nested parameters in Rails
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