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HTML5 support and the latest browsers
I got an email update from Microsoft on their upgrading of Bing Rewards to “Microsoft Rewards”, which includes using Microsoft Edge as another way to earn rewards. My first thought was that that wouldn’t be too bad for web developers who use multiple browsers, anyway. But, of course, Edge is quite a bit more advanced…
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RailsSettings vs parallel_tests
RailsSetting stubbing problem I have an area of functionality that is controlled by a Settings class that is a subclass of RailsSettings::CachedSettings (rails-settings-cached gem) and changing that setting for tests was interfering with the parallel_tests gem when I ran my rspec tests. I tried namespacing the cache, making TTL 0, invalidating the cache, monkeypatching the…
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Using an Arduino to keep a Seiki 4K Display On
I love my Seiki 4k Display for writing code on my Mac. The one downside is that it times out and goes to sleep after 2 or 4 hours of inactivity (from the remote, not the screen). I decided to fix this problem in a somewhat complicated way: With an Arduino Uno that I already…