Keita's Blog

I'm a big Let's Encrypt fan.

There's a guide to writing browser acceptance tests for Phoenix.

In Ruby, there is a very handy class called StringIO .

This is the inaugural article of my "Web Development Tools" series I plan on continuing for at least a few more posts, sharing some of the essential tools I use for web developm...

My favorite pizza is the pizza Margherita.

Edit Sept. 30 2016: PostgreSQL 9.6 was released today, and these instructions should work -- just replace 9.4 with 9.5 and 9.5 with 9.6 .

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- case in a fun is usually redundant - if is even worse - keep it simple

Note (2019/07/05): I've posted a follow-up to this post about limitations about the technique used here, especially when hosting an API on the same domain.

My wife Naoko wrote a reply to this post.

I recently released a simple API to un-shorten URLs.

As a small side project, I recently launched a "link unroller" service.

So, this is a thing: Now, Basically -- you run bundle install --without once, and that's saved in .bundle/config .

Note : This blog post covers the legacy SSL Endpoint.

Edit 2016/4/29 I have written a follow-up piece to this blog post.

Edit 2016/1/9 I have updated these instructions for upgrading from PostgreSQL 9.4 to 9.5.

Any web developer who works with external services or databases (that's probably almost every web developer) has probably run into performance problems.

I recently released my first app on the Mac App Store, Toki, and I decided that talking about the inner workings of the sync mechanism I'm using would not only be interesting, b...

Kerbal Space Program \-\- KSP for short -- is an incredibly addictive game about...

I noticed that most of the good discussion I was having about blog posts were on App.net.

I recently gave a quick talk about how I use Nginx, HHVM, MariaDB with WordPress on this blog at the March WordPress Meetup in Tokyo.

In my quest for faster response times and page load speed, I've been playing around with Google's SPDY.

Update 2014/4/24 : I've updated the template to work with the latest HHVM 3.0+, and also squished some bugs.

Update 2014/4/17 : This site now runs WordPress 3.9, which seems to be working fine with HHVM.

I really like Sublime Text.

So, I'm making some changes to this blog.

The ease of making a WordPress theme is both a blessing and a curse.

Ruby 2.1 is coming soon!

I have been a proponent of pre-commit hooks for a very long time.

Rails Turbolinks is pretty cool, right?

WordPress 3.7 was just released.

I've been playing around with Vagrant recently.

Snoopy Snoopy is a bookmarklet for snooping on web pages.

Search: Replace:

If you aren't familiar with Marshal.dump and Marshal.load , you probably should be.

I've come across too many Rails apps with the secret token in version control.

Just writing to let you know that I've switched servers for this blog!

One of the things that I've built regularly are custom WordPress themes for clients.

What do you do when you have a Facebook app tab (inside an iframe , mind you) that's externally linkable?

There have been more than a few times where someone needs to send a big file to me.

It may be easy to use the same master Access Key and Secret Access Key for all your apps using Amazon AWS, but it's definitely not secure and recommended against.

Too long?

Want to mix LocationMatch and ProxyPass ?

In Ruby 2.0.0 patchlevel 195, you can no longer mix old- and new-style hash syntaxes in method arguments.

Rubinius is an implementation of the Ruby language spec.

A week ago, I posted Automate your Workflow: Local WordPress Install with a script that helps you install new WordPress installations.

Lately, I've been pretty obsessed with streamlining my workflow, which means writing scripts (read: building tools to do stuff for me).

In the past few weeks, I've found myself demonstrating how to do things on my computer for other people.

If you haven't noticed, you can't use anchor links: Inside Facebook Apps (Page tab, Canvas app, etc).

There's a Japanese word I like, "謎" - the dictionary defines it as "a mystery", "riddle", or "enigma" - I like to define it as "something that makes no logical sense whatever"....