Matt Fletcher on Atomic Spin

Extracurricular Activities

Script Away your Annoyances: Creating Word Groupings from Anki’s Database

Manually clicking through the Anki browser to pick out words reviewed today is annoying. Let's create a script to do this for us automatically.

Growing as Makers

My short review of the Design + Thinking movie and a follow-up panel conversation.

Extracurricular Activities

How I used a small Ruby script with ActiveRecord to learn more about my Anki database.

Developer Tools

OS X's Automator is a handy tool for quickly scripting annoying workflows.

Developer Tools

Demonic git blobs got you down? Time to bring out the BFG.

.NET / WPF

HIDSharp is a great little library for USB HID communication in .NET.

Ruby

Settingslogic is an awesome RubyGem for straightforward access to Ruby application configuration.

Development Practices

Let's create a script to automate the testing of a slow, ugly, and brittle data import process into Fedora Commons.

Ruby

How I've used capybara-screenshot to work through some perplexing test failures.

UX/Design Practices

A brief review of the categories of design, courtesy of Bettina von Stamm's book "Managing Innovation, Design, and Creativity."

Ruby

If you're developing a Ruby on Rails application on OS X, you'll need this workaround to keep Font Awesome from crashing capybara-webkit.

Ruby

Running your tests in random order will increase their robustness. You can now configure RSpec to do just that.