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A Rubyist's Introduction to Character Encoding, Unicode and UTF-8

Have you ever dealt with a unicode bug? Where plain text — the substance you work with all day — can no longer be trusted? It can be disorienting to say the least! This article will help prepare you so that the next time that happens you’ll be able to spend less time hyperventilating and more time troubleshooting.
  • author photo By José M. Gilgado
  • #ruby
  • Jan 28, 2020

FounderQuest S2 E9 | Is It Time For The Big Rewrite?

This week on FounderQuest Josh, Starr, and Ben talk about the quandary of not knowing how to build something until after you’ve already built it. Therefore, once it's built it can be hard to fight the urge to build it again taking into account all...

FounderQuest S2 E8 | The 2019 Thanksgiving Freestyle Episode

This week on FounderQuest things get wild and the guys throw the show notes out the window. They are kicking it freestyle on this special Thanksgiving episode. All of today’s hard-hitting questions are answered:  Dark meat or light meat?  Turkey...

GitHub Student Developer Pack Holiday Challenge

Hey GitHub Student Developer Packers! For the month of December, we are issuing a challenge to help you grow as a developer so you can crush bugs and deploy web apps with confidence using your free Honeybadger account. If leveling-up your developer...
  • author photo By Ben Findley
  • Dec 2, 2019

FounderQuest S2 E7 | Is Offering A Free Plan Worth The Hassle?

This week on FounderQuest, Josh is back and shares his hot takes from RubyConf in Nashville. Be wary of the ghost pepper oil! There’s no such thing as a free lunch, however, there is such a thing as a free Honeybadger plan. The guys talk about their...

FounderQuest S2 E6 | Marketing On Marketplaces

Ben and Starr are putting the entire weight of FounderQuest on their backs this week as they forge ahead without Josh for this episode. Fear not listener, just because it's two-thirds of the presenters doesn't mean you aren't getting a full serving...

Lights, Camera, GitHub Actions!

Here at Honeybadger, we are big fans of GitHub Actions' workflow automation and CI/CD features. We like it so much that we decided to add two of our own contributions to the community! Now you can trace stacks at light speed by uploading your source...
  • author photo By Ben Findley
  • Nov 18, 2019

FounderQuest S2 E5 | Should You Comply With Compliance?

On this week's episode of FounderQuest Josh, Ben, and Starr talk about their SOC 2 and GDPR compliance efforts. They go over the different strategies to handle compliance, the potential costs involved, and discuss if it's worth the time and money.

FounderQuest Podcast | Should You Blow Up Your Backlog?

What the heck is FounderQuest and what is it doing on the Honeybadger blog? FounderQuest is a weekly podcast recorded and produced by the founders of Honeybadger, Ben, Starr, and Josh (these guys). It covers a wide range of topics centered around...

Managing PostgreSQL partitioned tables with Ruby

Introducing the pg_partition_manager gem: It helps you easily maintain PostgreSQL partitioned tables that need to be created and dropped over time as you add and expire time-based data in your application.
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