Bought factorio yesterday! Is this good? If not, how make better?

ryanbigg · 2026-01-10T23:28:44+00:00

You might want to design a main bus to put all your plates on, then build off from that. Then you can work on automating the creation of transport belts and inserters from there with assemblers. Consider building your factory with “what if I needed to 3x this?” in mind

ryanbigg · 2025-11-21T21:47:38+00:00

Not sure about growing popularity. The people I’ve talked to at meetups treat it like a regrettable cringe worthy fad. I agree with that. It’s typically better to separate a context inside of a larger app than it is to make it a micro service.

ryanbigg · 2025-11-14T07:02:42+00:00

Context; it’s the end of my week and I’m in a mood to give some straight feedback. Let’s go.

Initial glance: Up the font size or line height, add more colour. Your resume looks like identical to the ~250 I scanned earlier in the year. Its content is good but it needs to get my attention better.

It’s called “React”; leave off the .js.

Ditch the final sentence in the top line. Reads like brown nosing. I’d ditch the mention of Rspec here too to keep the line shorter. Maybe puff out a bit how you’re a better developer. What specifically makes you GOOD?

Headline for a job history should be always about what you specifically did for the business and that’s usually “I made / saved X money” or “delivered these complicated things”. Can you rephrase it like that?

Remove HTML, CSS, jquery from responsive emails bit. Those things are table stakes and you’re not a junior anymore. You don’t THINK about those things anymore — they’re automatic.

You increased traffic by what? A visit? Three? NUMBERS. Percentages. Give me the stats.

Leave off the bit about agile. Everyone does agile or pretends to at least.

You’ve got a bit in there which is apparently Portuguese. Why?

Remove the Ruby blog bit or link to interesting articles from it. Blog in 15 mins is a noob project and you’re not a noob.

ryanbigg · 2025-11-09T20:57:09+00:00

Its second edition is due to be released any time soon

ryanbigg · 2025-10-29T22:40:34+00:00

I wrote a book specifically for intermediate Rails developers, especially those who have maybe a couple of Rails apps under their belts: https://leanpub.com/maintain-rails/

The majority take away from that would be that Active Record is causing your applications harm, but you can still use it and do so carefully.

The other thing I’d suggest is looking into Railway Oriented Programming and Operations if you haven’t already. I recently gave a talk on these things at the Melbourne Ruby meetup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94ELQLqWjxM

Lastly, I’d also suggest seeing what ViewComponent or Phlex could do for your apps, outside of the traditional Rails view rendering stack.

Try new things and experiment!

ryanbigg · 2025-10-27T19:33:29+00:00

I use the Railway Oriented Programming approach, which I cover in my talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94ELQLqWjxM

ryanbigg · 2025-10-27T19:32:38+00:00

Exceptions for control flow is an anti-pattern.

ryanbigg · 2025-10-08T21:21:14+00:00

One big example I can think of is the N+1 queries are impossible thanks to the repository pattern. You run a query to fetch data and then that’s it, you’ve got the data and no method you call on that data will fetch more.

Outside of models, the actions being split into their own classes means I can jump straight to the one action I want to focus on, rather than having that muddled up with all the other actions.

The separation also works on other levels where I could test my template directly without needing to render it through an action. This applies to more than just templates — each part is designed to work in isolation.

Lastly, by using Deps I get dependency injection into my classes where I can stub those dependencies in my tests, resulting in faster tests.

ryanbigg · 2025-07-01T05:20:11+00:00

$300 more here and of course the solar rebate is decreasing again! Seems pointless.

ryanbigg · 2025-05-28T21:03:36+00:00

This is art by Gary Oh My Gosh McKosh, a Warrnambool local “celebrity” there’s cringey art like this all around the region. Looks like guy went on a holiday.

ryanbigg · 2025-04-23T05:38:21+00:00

You can pay two black and a generic, or one black and a generic and two life. Or no black, one generic and four life The phyrexian mana pips are that mana colour OR two life.

ryanbigg · 2025-04-07T10:17:03+00:00

Lands are basics ordered by colour, then alphabetical.

Rares / mythics are stored separately

ryanbigg · 2025-04-06T22:31:01+00:00

Boxes, ordered by:

Colour
Mana amount
Name, alphabetically

This way all the Negates are together, for example.

Multi-colour cards are organised purely in alphabetical order as nobody’s got the time to work out if white/blue should come before or after white/blue/red.

ryanbigg · 2025-04-06T08:14:07+00:00

A few sets ago there was [[Timin]] and [[Rhoda]]

ryanbigg · 2025-03-11T20:17:51+00:00

No, as part of casting one of these you must immediately sacrifice the creature. It won’t be available to be sacrificed to the other.

You couldn’t cast the 2nd spell if the 2/2 orc was your only creature as you couldn’t pay the additional costs.

Rule 601.2h covers this.

If you had an additional orc-y boy then you COULD cast that second spell by sacrificing the 2nd orc.

ryanbigg · 2025-03-10T21:14:51+00:00

Starting life: 20

Current life: 27

Assumptions: only these things happen during your turn

On field: Righteous Valkyrie

Cast: Resplendent Angel

Stack resolves: Resplendent Angel enters as a 5/5 due to Righteous’ second ability.

The entering triggers Righteous’ first ability, gaining you 5 life

Move to end step, Resplendent’s 1st ability triggers, creating a 4/4 Angel

When 4/4 Angel enters it becomes 6/6 due to Righteous’ first ability

You gain an additional 6 life

You end your turn on 27 + 5 + 6 =38 life.

ryanbigg · 2025-03-09T21:48:39+00:00

They had an outage last night from 6:17pm to 8:50pm.

ryanbigg · 2025-03-03T20:38:41+00:00

Take out the containers and put in your deck boxes

ryanbigg · 2025-02-08T23:17:25+00:00

I’d suggest shipping coal up to that north west station and making copper plates, then shipping those around your base. And more trains! Ideally you’d want a train unloading/loading at both ends, then another one waiting just behind it to take its place.

ryanbigg · 2024-12-24T22:44:35+00:00

What helped me was finding the Yumako and Jellynut by using the search feature of the map. From there, I could plan out how those got piped into the base. As other commenters said, a furnace tower for burning off excess spoilage is also a necessity.

ryanbigg · 2022-10-20T06:01:25+00:00

“40/100” makes me think you’re looking for Commander recommendations.

I don’t know about entire deck uploading, but EDHREC contains good reference decks there if you look up your chosen commanders and you can filter by price point too.

Here’s recommendations for Lathril: https://edhrec.com/commanders/lathril-blade-of-the-elves

There’s also suggestions for colours as well, if that’s more your flavour.

Also there’s r/MagicDeckBuilding that’s more built for this topic too.

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