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Spencer Dixon is a Senior Ruby and Python Developer with 11+ years of experience building software for UK Government Digital Services and global conservation efforts. Technical articles on ruby, python and software architecture.
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Cleaning up merged git branches: a one-liner from the CIA's leaked dev docs
How to delete all merged git branches locally with a single command. This one-liner has been in my zshrc since 2017 - I found it buried in the CIA's Vault7 leaked developer docs.
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Progressive Web Apps with Rails
Learn how to convert your Rails application into a Progressive Web App (PWA) in 10-15 minutes. Covers manifest.json, service workers, and upcoming Rails 8 PWA defaults.
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Granular Polymorphic User Permissions with Cancancan
Implement fine-grained polymorphic user permissions in Rails using Cancancan. Handle organization-level and item-specific access control with special permission grants.
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De-spaghettifying Rails Apps with Wisper
Learn how to use Wisper for pub/sub event-driven architecture in Rails. Clean up bloated controllers and models by decoupling business logic with the observer pattern.
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Deep Q-Learning for Atari Games
Build an AI agent that learns to play Space Invaders and other Atari games. Combine Deep Q-Networks with CNNs to learn directly from game screen pixels using OpenAI Gym.
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