Courses

• The Pyramid of Learning to Code
• Git Good
  • Git Branching & Checking out
  • Colorizing Your Git Experience
  • Rebasing and Merging
  • Git autocomplete on the shell prompt
  • Use Git Clean Remove Changes and New Directories
  • Show the current git branch on the shell prompt
  • The .github/CODEOWNERS File
• Unix Basics Fast ⌨️
  • The File System, The Working Directory, and pwd
  • cd (Change Directory)
  • ls (List)
  • Set the default EDITOR for you Shell
  • man (Manual Page)
  • ps (Process List)
  • which (Show if and where a command lives in your path)
  • kill and kill -9 (Stop and Terminate)
  • Ctl-Z (Background a Unix process)
  • Ctl-C (Stop a unix process)
  • fg (Foreground)
  • curl (Call URLs over HTTP, FTP, etc)
  • Tab (Auto-complete)
  • Tab-tab (Auto-suggest)
  • Readline Shortcuts Cheatsheet
  • Ruby Manager: RVM, rbenv, or Asdf
  • Node Manager: NVM, nenv, or asdf
  • Get NVM To Switch Between Node Versions when switching Directories (Zsh)
• Modern Javascript Fundamentals (2023) 💻
  • 10 Rules of Javascript Variables •WIP•
  • Template Literals (aka String Interpolation) With a Backtick
  • The Conditional Render
  • Modules in JavaScript
  • Object Property Value Shorthand
  • Nullish coalescing operator (??)
• TypeScript Crash Course •WIP•
• React Building Blocks 🧱
  • The Basics of JSX
  • Props •WIP•
  • Controlled vs. Uncontrolled Components
  • Essential React Hooks 🪝
    • useEffect
    • useState
    • useRef and Forwarding Refs Part 1
  • Fetching Data with an Endpoint In React
  • How to Use Environment Files in a React App
  • The Component Lifecycle (React before 16.18)
• React Native Wrapper 🍬
  • 1: Start (React Native)
  • 2: Your Weather App (React Native & Hooks)
• Stepping Up Rails 🛤
  • Matz is Nice and So We Are Nice
  • Identity Crisis
  • Uninitialized Constant OBJECT (while in a Rake task)
  • Rails Magic Autoload (Zeitwork)
  • Avoiding Fat Models by Preferring Composition Over Inheritance
  • Learning Postman
  • Advanced Rails Debugging
  • Ruby Debugging Basics
  • Cache or Bust
  • A Word About Flash Messages
  • OpenStruct Secret Tool
  • Antipattern: Fire & Forget
  • Who is N+1?
  • Learning ActiveRecord
  • Rails Migrations Tips & Tricks
  • ActiveRecord Chainable Scopes
  • Ensure with Explicit Return
  • Enumerated Types in Rails and Postgres (Rails 6 only)
  • The Magic of Enums in Rails
  • Ruby 2 Keyword Arguments
  • Upgrading to Rails 3, 3.1, and 3.2
  • Upgrading to Rails 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2
  • Upgrading to Rails 5.0
  • Upgrading to Rails 5.1 + 5.2
  • Upgrading to Rails 6.0
  • Upgrading to Rails 6.1
  • Adding jQuery to a Rail 6 App using Webpacker
  • Why Don’t My Assets Reload Correctly in Rails 6 or 7 (Sprockets, Webpacker, JS Bundling, & Shakapacker)
  • Rspec, SimpleCov, Capybara & FactoryBot Setup (for Ruby Testing)
  • Capybara
  • Using Rails with SSL on Localhost
  • Working with Mobile Phones
  • Rails Quick Scripts
• Rails 7 Crash Course
  • Rails 7: Options for Bootstrap, Turbo, Stimulus, and React and How to Load Javascript in Rails 7
  • Rails 7: JSBundling with ESBuild, Stimulus, Turbo, Bootstrap, CircleCI Up & Running
  • Rails 7: ImportMap-Rails with Bootstrap, Stimulus, Turbo (Long Tutorial)
  • Rails 7: ImportMap-Rails with Bootstrap, Stimulus, Turbo (Quick Setup)
  • Rails 7: Stimulus JS Basics
  • Rails 7: Turbo Your Rails •WIP•
• React ❤️ Rails
  • Rails 7: Shakapacker and ReactOnRails Quick Setup (Part 1)
  • Rails 7: Shakapacker and ReactOnRails Quick Setup (Part 2) •WIP•
  • Rails React: Pass parameters as camelCase and convert them to snake_case
  • GraphQL with Rails Part 1
  • GraphQL with Rails Part 2 •WIP•
  • GraphQL with Rails Part 3 •WIP•
• Deployment Zone ☁
  • Heroku
    • The Heroku Pipeline and Asset Compilation
    • Heroku Dynos
    • The Heroku Pipeline (aka ‘Pipelines’)
    • Heroku Routers & Mesh Layer
    • Heroku Memory Bloat
    • Heroku Release Tasks
• Javascript Got Your Back 🪤
  • NextJS To The Moon 🌚
• Styled High: CSS Animation Tricks 😇
  • Animate On Scroll
  • Linear Wiping Text
  • One-Line CSS Ellipsis
  • Pop In
  • Soft fade In
• TDD For Everyone 🧬
  • TDD For Ruby 💎
    • CircleCI Rspec Rails
    • looks_spammy?
• Modern Chrome $ Jquery Replacement
• PHP Debugging Crash Course
• Swift Types
• Shell Scripting
  • Shell Scripting – set -euo pipefail Failsafe