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Advanced Ruby IMAP

Previously, I worked through how to get messages from an IMAP server and work with the message headers. Let’s look at extracting data from those messages. As before we need to connect to the server, authenticate, and select the INBOX:

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Ruby and IMAP

There’s a really solid, tried and true, Internet wide messaging queue. It’s been around for decades and has first class support in Ruby. What is it? Email. That’s right, email. Before you run screaming from the room, think about it. Emai...

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Bullet Journal

Here’s something slightly random and the exact opposite of technical, the Bullet Journal.

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Stupid ssh-add Tricks

If you are reading my blog, odd are you already know how to use ssh-add to manage you SSH keys. If not, you can read up on it.

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Web Storage

Recently, I had the task of speeding up the response time of an app that depended on a remote API. The issue was that the API could take a long time to respond in some cases, plus four seconds. Four seconds is way to long to wait for a w...

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Laziness: curl Host Header

For some reason, I can never remember the right command line option for setting the Host HTTP header with curl. It’s actually something I need to do fairly regularly, it comes up testing server configurations before making changes to DNS...

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Tunneling to Localhost

When you’re developing Rails apps or pretty much any other framework you can name, you typically work with a server running on localhost. This is all well and good until you need to access it from a different location. This usually comes...

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The Sekrets Gem

I occasionally write about encryption in Ruby, yet somehow I haven’t managed to cover my friend Ara’s Sekrets gem.