Archives - Max Chernyak

16 May, 25 Getting Answers from a Big PDF with RubyLLM How to use LLM to get answers from a big PDF

20 Nov, 23 Y Long Term Refactors A process for deliberately long refactors

20 Jul, 23 4 Reasons to Leave a Code Comment If you write a comment, better have a good reason

13 May, 23 Adventures in Ruby-esque type enforcement Plain Ruby way to enforce types at runtime

22 Nov, 22 Rails — narrative vs model centric approach Organize code into short stories

10 Oct, 22 Good Engineering is not Premature Optimization Don't misuse the term "premature optimization"

07 Aug, 22 Ruby Enumerator.new(size) You can pass size to Enumerator.new

24 Nov, 21 Y Writing Maintainable Code is a Communication Skill Express the "how", "what", and "why" in your code

04 Oct, 21 Mindful Code Reviews Mindful code reviews improve engineering culture

21 Mar, 20 3 Reasons Not To Implicitly Memoize Maintainability, reusability, and performance

04 Aug, 18 Don’t use docker to run your app in development Use docker-compose and asdf for local dev

15 Sep, 15 Elasticsearch gems and modules, clearly explained Learn what each Elasticsearch gem and module does

18 Jun, 14 6 practices for super smooth Ansible experience Vagrant, ssh, secrets, setup/deploy and more

15 Jun, 14 Linux permissions cheatsheet Make sense of chmod flags' behavior

26 Nov, 13 Y CMS Trap Avoid architectural premature optimization

09 Sep, 13 Tips on Rails 3 load paths How to use autoload_paths, eager_load_paths, lib

21 Jan, 10 Multiple Table Inheritance With ActiveRecord Proof of concept MTI implementation in Rails