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How to Properly Eager Load Associations
Eager loading data is great...unless ActiveRecord is requerying anyway
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ActiveRecord Cannot Read Minds
ActiveRecord - 60% of the time, it understands you every time
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The last record - according to whom?
The last record isn't necessarily the one with the highest id
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Database Queries vs Database Results
Your Rails console makes it look like your code is doing more than it is
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An Introduction to Firebase's Cloud Firestore: Part II
How Firebase's query rules try to be scalable by default
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An Introduction to Firebase's Cloud Firestore: Part I
Snapshots, Documents, and References, oh my!
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How To: Make Your React Native App Work With The iPhone X Screen
One weird trick to get your React Native app to utilize the full screen of the iPhone X
Product Insights
Design and Discovery
Why design and discovery projects are the best way to kick-off a new product initiative
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When Systems Can't Agree on the Truth
You're on an island where knaves lie and only knights tell the truth...
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