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What makes good tests?

Let’s add another “what makes good tests” article to the world!

May 6 •

April 2024

"Building A Startup" published!

Some of you may know but I’ve been working on a book putting all the best practices, anecdotes, code samples, and experiences I’ve had over the last…

Apr 15 •

8 months of Ruby

Following in the vein of my last language retrospective, 8 months of Go, I wanted to share my experiences of working in Ruby for the last 8 months.

Apr 15 •

March 2024

Dealing with circular dependencies

Mar 18 •

What makes a good API?

There’s a ton of thoughts and written material about writing good public API’s for things like REST or RPC but I feel like the amount of times I am…

Mar 4 •

February 2024

Musings about "On Call"

In the cloud enabled world where everything runs 24/7 someone behind the scenes is usually on the hook to make sure that when things break off hours…

Feb 19

Ruby ERB templating and AST magic

Validating invalid dynamic erb blocks

Feb 5 •

January 2024

Challenges with data

Modeling is hard

Jan 30 •

Design Patterns - Wrappers

Lets talk about wrappers

Jan 28 •

Design Patterns - Visitors

Lets talk about visitors

Jan 28 •

Design Patterns - Strategies

Lets talk about strategies

Jan 28 •

Design Patterns - Singletons

Problem 1: Hidden resource problem

Jan 28 •

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