Elaine Osbourn

Tech Stack

• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• Jekyll
• Accessibility
• Slack
• CSS
• HTML
• PostgreSQL
• Git
• Liquid

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Articles Elaine has written

• Prolonging your laptop's battery
  Some short and long term solutions to extending your laptop's battery life
• Working when travelling by plane/train
  Some tips and tricks for maximising working whilst travelling
• Using RSpec to test meta descriptions
  A little code snippet to show you how to test meta descriptions in RSpec
• Rails Admin - only display field on edit
  Conditionally displaying fields only if they are present in the database
• Jekyll admin and frontmatter setup
  Quick article creation with Jekyll Admin and frontmatter config
• Generating Open Graph social media images
  A ruby Open Graph image generator using Tinify
• Fixing an issue with Sprockets and feature tests
  A fix for issues with the asset pipeline on CircleCI
• Essential non-programming skills for engineers
  How "soft" skills can benefit your career
• Quick and dirty initial avatars
  A quick guide to adding initial avatars using the Avatarly gem
• Active Storage - resizing images on upload
  Our fix for app timeouts due to upload of large images when Active Storage was used
• Integrating RSS feeds to Slack (including YouTube)
  How to add an RSS feed to a Slack channel to automatically post new content from the feed
• How to fix problem installing Charlock Holmes Gem
  My fix for installing 0.7.6 of the Charlock Holmes gem on macOS
• Rubocop CircleCI Config
  How to fix issues with Rubocop running on your entire code base
• Adding an integration to a Slack room
  How to add an integration to a Slack room. Part of our Slack mini series
• Using the 'it' Gem to add links to translations
  How to can use the 'it' Gem to add links to your translations
• Custom Startup Messages on Slack
  How to set a custom start up message on your team's Slack channel. Part of our Slack mini series
• Post Holiday Checklist
  What we as freelance developers do after a break to try and quickly get back into the swing of things
• Setting up Rails to use PostgreSQL
  A short guide to setting up your Rails project to use the PostgreSQL database
• Jekyll Raw Code Block Syntax
  A guide to formatting code blocks using the Jekyll raw syntax
• How to escape backticks in Markdown
  How to escape backticks when you're trying to write inline code blocks with Markdown
• Syntax Highlighting on Slack
  How to do syntax highlighting on Slack. Part of our Slack mini series
• Making a Channel on Slack
  How to make a new Slack channel. Part of our Slack mini series
• Formatting on Slack
  How to do formatting on your Slack messages to improve their readability
• Using Formspree to add Contact Forms to Static Sites
  An guide to adding Formspree to your static site for a contact form
• Using QuickTime to make Screen Recordings from iPhone
  An guide to making a screen recording of your iPhone using OSx and QuickTime
• Shrugging on Slack
  How you can go about adding a shrug to a Slack message
• Setting Your Status on Slack
  How to set your status on Slack to give people an idea of what you're doing
• Making Custom Emojis on Slack
  A guide on how to make custom emojis for your Slack team to enjoy
• Accessibility Options on Slack
  A short guide to some of the accessibility options available on Slack
• Setting Reminders on Slack
  A comprehensive guide to everything you can do with reminders in Slack
• Generating Comments on Static Sites with Staticman
  A beginners guide to creating a Jekyll site and using Staticman to allow commenting
• Quick and Easy CSS Minification Using Atom
  A guide to quick and easy CSS manual minification using Atom. Sometimes you don't need a build step
• Adding Author to Jekyll Posts
  This is how I added the notion of an author to my Jekyll posts. Author information helps people who who wrote the post they are reading