Blog

• December 2025
• Reducing Tailwind asset size
• Quiet, but discoverable
• No CSS, No Javascript. Longevity on the web.
• SSL for local Rails development
• Japan 2025
• Fugit gem: defining recurring tasks for background jobs
• HENRY's Guide to Taxes, Loans, and Cars
• CSS Fragmentation issues with multi column
• Monthly finance night
• My computers 2025
• Sourdough
• Popovers and Anchor Positioning
• Ruby HTTP Streaming Revisited
• iOS Progressive Web App Dialog bug
• Dark mode and RSS
• Environmental Hardware Upgrades: iPhone 16e
• Building an accessible search page with progressive enhancements
• Self hosting Rails on a Mac
• Progressive HTML Currency Input
• Things I learned this week
• Customizing Turbo lifecycle events: iOS swipe view transitions
• Bake-off: It's Performance Week!
• Personal project deployment is both harder than easier than ever
• Saving $1,000 in interest using money market funds to pay bills
• Ruby timezones and testing
• Managing Rails client side navigation state
• Skip tailwindcss build if already running
• Rails 5 Production Database Protection
• How to sort GitHub notifications in Gmail
• How to have an effective one on one
• Building reusable Ruby scripts
• Protecting Resque::Server
• Interview your libraries
• Ruby Incompatible Encoding Errors
• Ruby on Rack
• Blog Reboot, Lessons Learned
• And You Thought Render Farms Were Just For Pixar!
• Building Streaming REST APIs with Ruby
• Define Custom Callbacks for ActiveRecord and More
• Real Web Performance for Users, not Robots
• Faraday: One HTTP Client to Rule Them All
• Writing a Custom Rails Cache Store
• Pry Productivity From Your Code
• Balancing Pain and Happiness
• Prototyping with Compass and Serve
• Hunting Down Execution Order Test Failures
• Backbone.js: Sessions and Authentication
• Useful Libraries: Rake::Pipeline and Spade
• Planning a Big Data Migration
• Behind the Curtain: Grape API Versioning
• Developers, what are you thankful for?
• The Scrappy Guide to Pre-Launch Bootstrapping
• PROJECT README, Y U NO HAVE?
• Rubies to Prevent Devops Mayhem
• Node.js Jumpstart
• My Web Development Toolbox, 2010 Edition
• Modular Cocoa Interfaces
• Fixing Common Bundler Problems
• Resque Cheatsheet
• New Beginnings: Starting with Intridea
• Getting Around in MongoDB
• Email Delivery for Webapps
• Beerpad Hackathon: Hosting with Heroku
• Reaction to 37Signal's Getting Real
• Hackathon creation: Beerpad
• Page Caching Gotcha on Heroku
• Rails Dependency Management
• Tips of the Day
• Tips of the Day
• Tips of the Day
• Tips of the Day
• Ruby Rails Gmail SMTP
• A Day in Python Library Hell
• Ruby Python Cheatsheet
• Talking the Startup Talk, Walking the Outspokes Walk: Founders
• The Software Maintenance Light
• Introspecting Rails Models and Controllers Callbacks
• Ruby Postgresql Gem Cleanup
• Fast Tracked iPhone Development
• Adventures with ActiveRecord find
• Rails 2.2.2 Chicken and Egg Migrations Headache
• Rails and Gems Documentation Everywhere
• Another .irbrc Jewel
• Multiple Gmail Accounts on OSX Done Right
• Emacs Refactoring
• Rails-like Javascript Date Helpers
• Rails Flash with Ajax
• OS X GUI Tool 'HTTP Client'
• How to Make an API for a Rails App
• Deploying into the Night
• Subversion for the Lazy
• Dump Test Data from Production to Development with yaml_db
• Building Webapp Menus
• Hacking Live Systems
• Where to Find Things in Rails
• Coupa and Rails 2
• Week of Insomnia
• Mini-apps Galore!
• Picking at Capistrano
• Tweaking Apache with Phusion Passenger
• Debian/Ubuntu Specific Rails with Postgresql
• Messy Ruby Requires
• Flaco Crushers
• Flaco Rewrite
• My Keyboard
• Emacs Info
• Rails String Inflections
• RSpec'ing acts_as_state_machine
• First Sprint
• Dangerous Scaffolding
• Capify my App
• Fuck Fixtures
• Rails Webapp Engineering
• Platform of Choice
• Fuzz Testing and Being a Dick
• my $perl;
• Kernel Designs
• Emacs Tips
• Rails Tips
• Premature Software Testing
• Customizing Emacs
• Common Latex Usage
• My Computing Environment
• Setup Rails with Postgresql
• CSS Tips and Tricks
• Infuriating Job Applications
• Flaco Blog
• Shoot em up Debugging