Brian Turchyn

Why Can't I Load My Flutter Assets?

Some troubleshooting steps if you're running into issues loading assets in your Flutter app, either with rootBundle.loadString() or something like Image.asset(). You haven't registered your assetsSymptomYou get the following error message Unable to load assetCauseYour asset hasn't been properly declared in your pubspec.yaml file. This can either

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Code Cookbook

Basic Traefik Configuration for HTTP and HTTPS

Configuring Traefik for serving HTTP and HTTPS is fairly simple, but requires a few steps to get working correctly.

Code Cookbook

Traefik ForwardAuth Support with Keycloak

Step-by-step instructions for how to set up ForwardAuth middleware with Traefik, using Keycloak as your identity provider

Burnout

In December of 2019, I burned out for the first time in my professional career. Today, I'd like to talk about what I went through, the events that led up to it, and what I'm doing now to recover.

Ruby

What's the fastest way to sum up an Array in Ruby?

Let's say you have an array of numbers. How do you get the sum of them? One way is to iterate through the list and start adding them up one by one. In Ruby, you could write this as array.inject(&:+). Per the Ruby documentation, [#inject] Combines all elements

Ruby

Ruby's Enumerable#find Method

Today we dive into Enumerable's #find/#detect method and how to use it effectively.

Automation

Gather Your Daily Digest with Huginn

If you find you have a bunch of different sites you want to read on a regular basis, it can be time consuming to go to each site. Furthermore, you might miss something. Maybe your list of sites is long. Comics to read, latest news, and so-on. For this, I'd

Automation

Gather Your Reading Material with Wallabag

It's easy to get lost in a rabbit hole where you want to read everything, but don't remember what you've read and what you haven't. For this, I use a "read it later" app. There are a number of apps out there you can use to read articles later, such

Automation

Automate Your Morning Routine

Alarms are annoying. They disturb your pleasant slumber, they're loud and obnoxious, and all they do is frustrate you – not a good way to start your day. We can make this better. RequirementsSleep as AndroidTaskerAutoInputSpotifyDarkSky APIThe PlanFirst, improving the alarm situation. Sleep As Android is a great sleep tracking app

Automation

Recompiling Sphinx Documentation While Writing

I first got the inspiration to make a personal wiki when I saw Nikita Voloboev's Everything I Know. There's a huge amount of information in here. While it may not be necessarily useful to anybody but himself, it's impressive to see somebody brain dump so much into a singular place.

Automation

Automatically Start Your Apps

Automatically starting applications up when you first log into your computer can be a nice time saver. Start your computer up, log in, then go get yourself a cup of coffee while everything starts up. WindowsThere are several methods to autorunning applications. Many applications have an option in their settings.

Server

Running a Diaspora* Pod

A few months ago, I was reading up on alternative social networking sites to Facebook. I find their privacy policy too invasive, and now I only use it when required. Although it still has a long way to go, Diaspora* is a great contender in the ring. It lacks a

Installing and Configuring CJDNS on Ubuntu Linux

This was adapted from https://wiki.projectmeshnet.org/Install_on_Ubuntu Installation The standard CJDNS install information is good, but doesn't have any support for restarting when your server restarts. The Debian build method handles things better overall. Install dependencies: sudo apt-get install nodejs git build-essential devscripts debhelper dh-systemd Check

Ruby

Utilizing ActiveRecord Enums In The View

Rails 4.1 added support for Enums to be used in models. You can check out the release notes here. Generally, these are supposed to be used for tracking internal states and should not be exposed to the user. If you're a rebel, however, you can easily use these for

Facebook

It's Time To Ditch Facebook Chat

tl;dr I want to ditch Facebook Chat, and I want you to join me. Scroll to the bottom for my proposal. Unfortunately, I've been stuck using Facebook Chat for the past year or two. This is mainly because: There's nothing better at the moment Nobody uses anything else I've

Coding For Users: First Feelings From Coding A Product For Others

I spend a lot of time writing code. It's what I get paid to do, and it's one of my favourite pasttimes. At work, most of my design is based off of pre-existing pages in the application. There's not much thought to put into it. When developing from scratch, then

Employment

Developers: Put Your Code Online

Despite having only been in the software development industry for a few short years, I've been lucky enough to participate in several interviews. In fact, I've interviewed close to 50 people for positions ranging from interns to senior developers (one of which had about 15 more years of experience than

Windows

Installing RMagick Gem On Windows With RubyInstaller

At work, I'm trying to get a copy of Redmine running on a Windows box (unfortunately I don't have a *nix box to use). I found the RailsInstaller package that sets you up with a solid base package, but in order to use Redmine you need a bunch of gems

Social Media

Here's How You Should Handle Data Breaches

Only a few hours ago, Buffer, the web app for posting to social networking sites on a schedule, was hacked. A bunch of accounts hooked up to the service started sending out spam messages. This is always a rough position to be in. You essentially have to admit to your

Torrents

Why You Should Stop Using uTorrent

In the latest version of the popular Windows BitTorrent client uTorrent, someone discovered something fishy after the installation. All of a sudden, their browser homepage had changed, to Yahoo! no less. Turns out that uTorrent is sneakily putting a 3rd party application install as part of their installation process, called

Privacy

Encryption for The Technologically Lazy, Pt. 1 - Your Android Phone

Let's start with some assumptions first: You're one of those people who claims that they don't care about the government looking into their email. (See: "there's nothing I'm embarrassed about in there"). You think that encrypting your life is a huge inconvenience. You think that encryption is for