This is a quick guide to gaining access to a large variety of TI parts – in particular operational amplifiers – in LTspice. We’re going to export the SPICE macro directly out of TI’s own SPICE tool “TINA” and import it to LTspice. This is non-intuitive, but once you’ve seen how it’s done it’s...
One of the interesting variations of gondolas operated by the Algoma Central was their group of 52′ gondolas modified for steel coil service. These cars were outfitted with internal wooden bunks for loading the coils of sheet steel and three piece round steel covers to protect the contents from...
Note: This is one part of my journey to tame a spaghetti model or god object. Start with Post 1: Unraveling a Spaghetti Model to see how I chose to tackle this problem. Your spaghetti model has been a dumping ground of methods and associations for years. In our case, it’s the company model. We...
Note: This is one part of my journey to tame a spaghetti model or god object. Start with Post 1: Unraveling a Spaghetti Model to see how I chose to tackle this problem. Your spaghetti model has been a dumping ground of methods and associations for years. Overview In your journey to detangle a...
Note: This is one part of my journey to tame a spaghetti model or god object. Start with Post 1: Unraveling a Spaghetti Model to see how I chose to tackle this problem. Your spaghetti model has been a dumping ground of methods and associations for years. In our case, it’s the company model. We...
In many established Ruby on Rails applications, there are often a couple of classes that become entangled with the rest of the code base. These early models start small and simple, possibly present for the first commit, but over time, the rest of the code base becomes entangled with them. Some...
On January 10, 2023, our code base turns 11 years old. For a repo with this much history, we’d expect for the business needs and features to have evolved over time. Surely in the quest to ship new features, our past selves might have forgotten to remove all the dead code. While examining our...