Reflecting on Three Years of Programming
This month marks three years since I started programming; I’d like to take a minute and reflect on this milestone. ...
Ceramic Nation
Project announcement! Last night I built a Markov Chain-generated novel, titled Ceramic Nation. ...
The N + 1 Problem
Recently, I was thinking about the N + 1 problem. N + 1 is a performance issue in a web application, where a method call unleashes a torrent of database queries. ...
Learning to Program as a Career Change
A few years ago, I wrote my first computer program. Today, I am a full-time programmer. In this post, I’ll list the resources and ideas that helped me get started. ...
Ruby Symbol#to_proc
What does &: mean in Ruby? In this post, I’ll explain. ...
Code Club: Rack and Rails Server
This week in Code Club we explored Rack, the middleware of the Rails stack. Rack is newsworthy of late due to a change in ownership, prompting inevitable questions about the future. As Rails developers, we wanted to know what Rack really does. ...
Vim or Bust
Starting with this blog post, I will be using Vim as my primary text editor. ...
The Case for One Computer Monitor
I have one computer monitor on my desk. Not long ago, this was common, but today, many people have two, three, or four monitors. In this post, I’d like to make the case that most professional programmers can use just one monitor. ...
Hello World!
I’ve been writing code for a few years now, and am proud to be launching my own developer’s blog. ...