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Chris Arcand


Principal Engineer building Terraform at HashiCorp šŸ‘Øā€šŸ’» Formerly: Red Hat, NBC SportsEngine, RubyMN organizer. Once played the clarinet for a living, now making a living to play hockey. I make pointless connections to Minnesota as a Minnesotan does.

St. Paul, MN


  1. Vim's new :cdo command

    Vim's new :cdo command offers new flexibility with your quickfix list. One such example is a near-native way to do project-wide find-and-replace operations. [READ MORE]


  2. Inline scoped Ruby methods with Ctags

    Adding Ctags support for Ruby 2.1's inline scoped method definitions [READ MORE]


  3. Oliver Sacks dies at 82

    World renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks died yesterday. Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and acclaimed author who explored some of the brainā€™s strangest pathways in best-selling case histories like ā€œThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,ā€ using his patientsā€™ disorders as starting points for eloquent meditations on consciousness and the human condition, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82. ā€œOliver Sacks, doctor of ā€˜Awakeningsā€™ and poet laureate of medicine, dies at 82ā€ by the New York Times If you havenā€™t read Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain you need to go pick up... [READ MORE]


  4. Memoized helpers and before hooks in RSpec

    A quick overview of the similarities and differences between memoized helpers and before hooks in RSpec. [READ MORE]


  5. Null Coalescing Operators and Ruby's Conditional Assignments

    Ruby doesn't have a true null coalescing operator, so don't write something like it does. [READ MORE]


  6. Dunbar's Number and Working Better with Those We Actually Know

    Blake Fitzgeraldā€™s fantastic observations on Dunbarā€™s Number and how the naturally strong cohesion between your organizationā€™s employees can live or die based on the organizationā€™s reaction to passing this threshold. Makes me think of Spotifyā€™s explanation of Autonomous Squads, as well as their approach to organization management overall, in their Spotify Engineering Culture videos. Dunbarā€™s Number and Working Better with Those We Actually Know by Blake Fitzgerald [READ MORE]