Life on Marts

Life on Marts

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Artur Martsinkovskyi

Artur Martsinkovskyi

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I am a Software Engineer on Ruby and some other languages, Vim enthusiast and a big fan of FP, XP and TDD. Rationalist with a sprinkle of sci-fi aspirations.

Encryption cooked wrong or why not all top search result gems are equally aiding

Disclaimer I don't blame aes gem creator for doing anything wrong consciously. It was written 8 years ago, it never gained enough traction to be...

Encryption cooked wrong or why not all top search result gems are equally aiding

Testing Factory Bot sequences

Once I was working on a feature that was a validation for UUID of a certain entity that matched the regular expression of...

Testing Factory Bot sequences

Myopic rationality of software kludge

TL;DR People love with their eyes, not their minds. They usually don't estimate what they don't see or comprehend, so without of proper voice of...

Myopic rationality of software kludge

Rails are a cult

It is going to be a rant. But a nice one. A piece of consideration from a desperate cult member that wants to make his beloved language better, that...

Rails are a cult

Vim in modernity - why and why not

I am a Vim acolyte now. I haven't always been one. First I used simple Gedit but it started to raise frustration in me. It was too bare-bones and I...

Vim in modernity - why and why not

Peafowl career or how act as if

Mommy, I don't feel so good So, you are a programmer for a year or two. You are too shy and incompetent to call yourself an engineer. You know some...

Peafowl career or how act as if