zverok's blog

May 6, 2021
I forgot how to spellcheck
Mar 16, 2021
17 (ever so slightly) weird facts about the most popular dictionary format
Feb 10, 2021
Rebuilding the spellchecker: Well, akchualy...
Jan 28, 2021
Rebuilding the spellchecker: Hunspell and the order of edits
Jan 21, 2021
Rebuilding the spellchecker, pt.4: Introduction to suggest algorithm
Jan 14, 2021
Rebuilding the spellchecker, pt.3: Lookup—compounds and solutions
Jan 9, 2021
Rebuilding the spellchecker, pt.2: Just look in the dictionary, they said!
Jan 5, 2021
Rebuilding the most popular spellchecker. Part 1
Nov 19, 2020
Fun with Ruby method argument defaults
May 16, 2020
Game of Life in one Ruby statement... inspired by APL
Oct 18, 2019
Fun with each_with_object and other Enumerator adventures
Jun 26, 2018
Quest for Ruby Pattern Matching
Apr 6, 2018
The Missing Ruby Reference
Mar 23, 2018
More yield_self awesomeness. Also, the new name proposed.
Mar 2, 2018
Embracing composability: be_json RSpec matcher
Feb 2, 2018
You should not implement #to_a for your classes
Jan 24, 2018
yield_self is more awesome than you could think
Nov 7, 2017
On sustainable testing
Nov 1, 2017
Useful RSpec trick for testing method with arguments
Oct 22, 2017
Please stop calling it "magic"
Sep 16, 2017
Making data API of MediaWiki sites
Jul 31, 2017
The case study for The Last API Wrapper
Feb 23, 2017
You Don't Need an API Wrapper
Jan 22, 2017
Small steps to DRYer RSpec
Oct 9, 2016
MiniTest is not "Just Ruby", it is "Just Rails"
Sep 28, 2016
Notes On Sane Monkey-patching
Sep 2, 2016
Tricks with RSpec components outside RSpec
Jun 27, 2016
TimeMath: ActiveSupport envy vs good selection of atomic concepts
Apr 18, 2016
New Reality release: comprehensive docs and other cool things
Mar 2, 2016
Grant Accomplishment Report: Reality Getting Real
Feb 23, 2016
Good Ruby Idiom: and/or operators
Jan 18, 2016
Implicit vs explicit type conversions in Ruby (to_h/to_hash and others)
Jan 10, 2016
On DataFrame datatype in Ruby
Dec 21, 2015
Infoboxer 0.2: Effective Wikipedia data extraction
Oct 2, 2015
Designing A Good Library or Readme-Driven Development
Sep 22, 2015
Thou Shalt Not Complicate, Pt.1: Three Kinds of Programmers
Aug 18, 2015
Infoboxer: use Wikipedia as a rich data source
Jul 18, 2015
Matchish: an Exercise in Implementing Pattern Matching in Ruby