Bob Nadler, Jr.

Many developers take the skill of writing a good commit messages for granted. It is an essential skill that requires discipline. While there are a variety of guidelines and opinions about writing them, I'm going to share my current preferences. These...

A few months ago I wrote about integrating Middleman with Shadow-CLJS. Today I'm going to expand on that by showing you how to add React to the mix by making a simple BMI calculator from scratch. I'm not going to spend too much time explaining the...

Awhile ago I wrote about how to set up Shadow-CLJS with Middleman. I finally got around to making a Middleman project template to ease the process of setting up Shadow-CLJS. The source is available on GitHub.

To use the template, you'll need to have...

When writing automated tests (whether in a TDD fashion or otherwise) I find it helpful to write the assertion first, before any setup code. There are two main reasons I think it is helpful.

One, I think it's useful to begin with the end in mind. Writing...

The other day I needed to format some currency values in JavaScript. I remembered coming across Intl.NumberFormat a long time ago on another project, but browser support was sketchy. I looked up the most recent info on caniuse and thankfully almost...

Ruby's Middleman is my preferred tool when I need to generate a static website. In this post I'm going to show you how to set up a Middleman project that uses ClojureScript instead of the default JavaScript or CoffeeScript that ships with Middleman...

Introduction

I’ve been playing around with Clojure and ClojureScript for awhile. So far I’ve always used Leiningen for managing dependencies and build tasks. I recently decided to give Boot a try. I needed to create a Boot task for compiling Selmer

Awhile back I wrote about pbcopy for OS X. These days I find myself using Ubuntu quite often and missed having pbcopy. Turns out there is a package called xclip that does the same thing on Ubuntu! Give it a try!

When writing data migrations, it can be useful to know the number of records that were updated / created. If you run your migration in a Rails console, ActiveRecord will print out the database response object like this for PostgreSQL:

2.1.5 :008 >

OS X has a nifty utility program named pbcopy that I just learned about which can be used to copy things to the system clipboard.

For example: cat foo.txt | pbcopy or pbcopy < foo.txt will copy the contents of foo.txt onto the system clipboard.