[tl;dr — Use ActiveSupport::Concern with modules in your Rails tests to reuse behavior. Or read the longer discussion and learn more about what’s going on behind the scenes.]

After writing a lot of BDD tests using Rspec and Cucumber in my Rails projects, I decided on a new approach for…

While studying up on the 2014 Formula One season, I spent a little time creating an animated GIF of Ferrari’s car over the last eight iterations. Interesting to watch the change of specific areas, like the front end and the rear wing. The images are centered on the driver’s position and are lined up as best as possible to be consistent with where the ground would be.

(Thanks to these guys for the images.)

Yeah, you wish this was about beer.

So you’re using some trick Web fonts for your site or app. It looks awesome in development. Yay.

You push to production, where your assets are all hosted on a CDN and suddenly your fonts stop working on Firefox and probably Internet Explorer…

JSONP is a way to fetch JSON data from a different domain, often in an asynchronous way, but without being restricted by the browser’s same-origin policy like you would be with XMLHttpRequest. But perhaps you only know it via a library like jQuery, which auto-magically handles JSONP URLs. …

My 2008 unibody Macbook Pro has a loose screen. Loose and wobbly and drunken at times. It’s been chugging along loyally for over three years, and in Internet time, it’s like a Regis Philbin. But as we all know, old folks can get wobbly. …

[Jason’s note: Three Days in Hell.A. is the account of two college journalists — David Downs (writer) and myself (photographer) — and our experience at the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, CA. It was originally published in August 2000 on jasonschock.com. …