Dave Thomas @pragdave
Programmer turned publisher (but mostly programmer) articles.pragdave.me Dallas, Texas Joined May 2007-
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Friday night doing an internal review of a (really good) book in development, and I came across: Computers are dumb, which is beautiful.
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I'm looking for examples of good source code. Stuff that's well written, or that uses interesting techniques, or that's clever without being obscure; the kind of code that you stop to read and they go "aahhh." Please drop suggestions and urls
Historically, books had indexes—lists of keywords and page numbers at the end. We generate them for our books: paper, PDF, and epub. We're wondering if anyone actually uses them. So... When I read a technical book, I use the index
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✨#RailsWorld alert - don't miss best selling Pragprog author @joemasilotti 's Day 1 keynote! ✨
✨#RailsWorld alert - don't miss best selling Pragprog author @joemasilotti 's Day 1 keynote! ✨
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Congrats to @sevenseacat & @ZachSDaniel1 - their book Ash Framework is finished & heading to print with @pragprog! 📚 Packed with insights & best practices for Elixir devs. Order it here & use promo code AshRelease for 35% off till end of 2025.👉 pragprog.com/titles/ldash/a…
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🚀Upcoming workshop alert! @herberticus , our lead Rust instructor, will be teaching a workshop at @rustconf 2025! 🧠 Async Fundamentals (Workshop 4) 📅 September 2nd, 2025 📍 Seattle, Washington & Online 🔗 rustconf.com/register/ ✅ Register now while there are still…
levelup.gitconnected.com/c-is-not-low-l… The stone-soup story of the current disconnect between the models of computation our programming languages present to us and the reality of modern computer architecture. What could a language that embraced current hardware look like?
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Introducing Tidewave Web for Rails and Phoenix: a coding agent that runs in the browser alongside your web application, with full page and code context. Tidewave deeply integrates with your stack, from the database to the UI, making AI development more seamless and efficient.
An interesting take on engagement. github.blog/open-source/ma…
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Celebrating Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir by Joseph Koski now in beta! 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3V5AQBZ 📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/jkelixir #Elixir #functionalprogramming #MyElixirStatus #WeBEAMTogether #programming #pragprog
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Hot off the press, my first book! 😎 pragprog.com/titles/rmwebrx…
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well well well, what do we have here @mark_volkmann?
Interesting article on Unison abilities: rlmark.unison-services.cloud/s/rebeccasblog…
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It was really fun to review this masterpiece by @hummusonrails. Definitely worth a read! 📖
It was really fun to review this masterpiece by @hummusonrails. Definitely worth a read! 📖
til: about the fish shell psub command, which takes it's input and write it to a named pipe, returning the name of that pipe, so you can write: diff (sort a.txt | psub) (sort b.txt | psub) # shows the difference between the sorted versions of files `a.txt` and `b.txt`
A brief article on why the lessons of The Sorcerer's Apprentice need to be remembered today: articles.pragdave.me/p/the-sorcerer…
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Celebrating Jetpack Compose 1.8 Essentials by Neil Smyth, now available from PragProg! 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4lnLlLA 📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/d-nsjet… #kotlin #kotlincoroutine #programming #pragprog #books
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Got an author-signed “Rails Scales” book from @crplanas #rubyconftw #coscup #rubyfriends
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Celebrating Kotlin Coroutine Confidence by Sam Cooper, now out of beta and fully released! 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4m6iGfd 📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/sckotlin 📘 print: bit.ly/4lehqFH #kotlin #kotlincoroutine #programming #pragprog #books
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