Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 30th January 2017
Murray Steele
Feb. 3, 2017
Static Site Generators - Charlie E
https://staticsitegenerators.net/
A static site generator for every language. I feel like I missed someone influential claiming static site generators are literally the best side project ever. Good list nonetheless.
PostgreSQL's Powerful Lateral Join - Elena T
https://blog.heapanalytics.com/postgresqls-powerful-new-join-type-lateral/
Although it was introduced a few iterations ago, in Postgres 9.3, the LATERAL join is worth a mention since it allows you to go over each resulting row of a query and perform a second sub-query. This is also cool because the subquery can take parameters. The subqueries are not evaluated independently so you have access to the results from previous executions.
awesome-bits - Charlie E
https://github.com/keon/awesome-bits
Another (more awesome) list. Basically it's a write up of bit wise operations of varying complexity, most of the simple ones work in Ruby too.
Doors - Murray S
http://www.lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/
In my time I've certainly played enough games to understand the specific design problem that Liz England describes for doors in game worlds. That's not the only reason I like this article though. It makes me think about other design choices I might make when building software and reminds me that if it seems "simple" I might need to think a bit more about it to understand the true impact on other users.
Track of the Week - Leon O K
...gloriously fragile, yet overwhelmingly powerful. Like the innocent memories of youth are fogged by excess.