What I learned today

Work

• I learned that in Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq can run cron-like jobs with the help of Sidetiq. It’s as easy as writing a Worker and adding this line after the definition:

  Class ScheduledWorker:
    include Sidekiq::Worker
    include Sidetiq::Schedulable
      recurrent { hourly }
      ...
  end
  

And you can substitute hourly by minutely, daily or minutely(5) if you want the worker to run every 5 minutes for example.

• I learned that installing python-software-properties when installing tmate on an Ubuntu machine can completely destroy your python installation if you are using Anaconda. Anaconda is finicky

Life

• I learned that a restaurant next to my office, Mrs Kims, has an amazing BLT Sandwhich.

• I learned how rice is made, I always thought that the rice grain grew underwater.