Compiling packages from source on Heroku using buildpacks
(Warning: whilst I work for Heroku, this isn't official supported - it's just something I discovered in my spare time. Hopefully this helps someone but leave »
Using OpenVPN from a Heroku dyno
(Warning: whilst I work for Heroku, this isn't official supported - it's just something I discovered in my spare time. Hopefully this helps someone but leave »
10,000 hours - as told by jazz musicians
In a 1993 paper by Anders Ericsson, he was one of the first to make the claim that mastery of a skill took around 10 years »
Writing a C extension for Ruby in 2016
Now that Ruby has crested the hype cycle, settled down and taken out a mortgage, you'd expect the posts around the community to be more about »
Installing Boost C++ libraries (libboost) on Heroku
A quick note for anyone else who runs into this. You can try this experimental Heroku Apt buildpack. The documentation is a little out of date »