Recently coming out of beta, the GitHub CLI is a tool for interacting with GitHub directly from your terminal. A successor to hub, CLI…
tl;dr When possible, use a fork to run GitHub Actions before merging them into a repository GitHub Actions is a feature that enables…
In this post, we try to understand how the concurrent-ruby gem leverages Threads within its Async module. In a previous post, we began the…
Ruby's Hash.new has three different options for initialization. These options differ in how they handle missing keys. In this post, we will…
At the time of writing, many people around the world are forced to work from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This sudden…
At work, we have been developing a mentorship and training program to help provide our team members time for deliberate practice. A recent…
My friend and former co-worker Charlie (@C-Saunders) and I make a point to periodically catch up with each other. Because I am lucky and…
Over the last few years, I have been fiddling on-and-off with Elixir and have loved it. One of the reasons there is so much hype around…
In a recent post, I discussed my new debugging technique of pulling down third party libraries. While having the code local to read and…
Recently at work, I decided I wanted to set up the annotate gem for one of our Rails applications. I expected this to be a quick win to…
This post covers building a function as a service using: golang - I've been interested in playing around with golang and thought this would…
This post is serving as my fifth and final (required) open source Pull Request for Hacktoberfest 2018. This method of getting my final Pull…
While listening to the most recent episode of the Changelog podcast, Homebrew and Package Management with Mike McQuaid, I began to realize…
As I have discussed in previous posts I have been working to adopt TDD into my workflow. One of the ways I have aimed to improve my testing…
NYC Coffee Shop Hipster This week I decided to take a long weekend off work and spend it in New York City. This will come as no surprise to…
A lot of recent developments in my programming career have been inspired by thoughtbot. This began as the result of using their gems and…
April 2019 Update Popkey is no longer serving gifs: As a result, you will need to look elsewhere for your gif fix (and some imgs below are…
A few months ago I was promoted to Lead Software Developer. I had been taking on the responsibilities of a lead developer over the past year…
Inspired by the Ruby Rouge's picks section and Tim Ferriss' 5-Bullet Fridays I have decided to start creating short, weekly posts…
I am a few months in to my switch to Vim and so far have been working to keep a fairly minimal vimrc and not use too many packages. There…
Disclaimer: While I know it is overused, I am going to use the term "cloud" a lot. By cloud I mean data stored remotely that can be accessed…
In working towards my original goals, I finally opened my first pull request on an open source project. For my first project I chose Rubocop…
Update April 2019 The carnival repository has been archived and the site fails to load, so it looks like the service is no longer being…
While not on the scale of a Silicon Valley or New York City, Orlando is working to gain traction to have a booming tech scene. I think a lot…
While no methods in Ruby are really safe, even when private, it's possible the class methods you think are private aren't actually private…
New Rails developers tend to fall in love with ActiveRecord. More specifically they fall in love with the "magic" of ActiveRecord - the…
In this post I am going to break down the basic parts of a Ruby class. For this example we will look at the following Cat class: Creating an…
Meomization in Ruby is a pretty simple to accomplish. You basically use an instance variable and the ||= operator: How ||= works The…
I am working on a side project in which I want to use Sinatra as a simple backend and experiment with a more rich Javascript front end. The…
Like many developers I felt the need to create a blog. The dream is, it will provide some benefit to other software developers around the…