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Connect Four in Ruby on Rails and Vue.js

I recently created an online version of Connect Four as part of a coding challenge. It is a SPA with the frontend written in Vue.js and the backend in Ruby on Rails 5.1. The code is available on Github in a pair of repositories. It's currently hosted on Heroku, so you can play it now.

javascript, vue, rails, coding | 2018.03.18 16:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

Setting up Bitbucket Pipelines with Ruby on Rails

I've been wanting to set up continuous integration for my personal projects for a long time. It's one of those things that seems super cool and useful but a bit too nebulous for me to actually sit down and devote any time to it. This weekend I finally did it, and it was a lot harder than it should have been.

coding | 2018.01.28 06:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

The Best Movies from 1987 to 2017 According to Pirates

My wife is Korean, but we're currently living in America. It's not uncommon for people to reference popular culture in everyday conversation. This isn't a problem for Americans talking to Americans, but it is for my wife. Being Korean, she hasn't been exposed to a lot of American culture because, well, Korea has it's own very strong cultural identity.

2018.01.21 06:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

Korean Culture from an American Perspective: Colors

For the most part, Korean colors make sense. For example, the color sky blue is 하늘색 in Korean. 하늘색 literally translates as "sky color". However, when it comes to some common pants colors, Koreans named things a bit differently.

korea | 2017.11.12 06:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

How to Fix a Car Key Fob

My key fobs have been acting a little funny recently. Only some of the buttons on one of them would work reliably. The other one was getting shorter and shorter range until it stopped altogether. I replaced the batteries in both of them, but that didn't fix the problem in either one.

car-maintenance, electrical-engineering | 2017.11.05 05:00 | Kurt Tomlinson
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