Work
Building software, writing books, and sharing what I learn along the way.
Projects
GarrettDimon.com
Personal Publishing System for this Very Site
After almost twenty years of publishing online, I sat down to dream up a system that I would happily use to publish online for the next twenty years. The result was a custom Rails-based tool built specifically for the writing and publishing workflows that worked for me.
Minitest Heat
Heat Map Reporter for Minitest
Minitest Heat automatically collects failures and inspects backtraces to proactively identify patterns and provide a heat map summary of the files and line numbers that most frequently appear to be the causes of issues so you can get to the source of problems more efficiently.
Reviewer
Consistent, Frictionless, and Unified Code Quality
Reviewer helps you leverage multiple automated code review tools with orders of magnitude less friction so you and your team can use them more frequently and consistently.
Prose
Frictionless Generators
Save Time with Custom Rails Generators
A deep dive into the process of creating custom Rails generators with a focus on leveraging them to save time.
Focus & Flow
A Book about Getting into the Zone and Staying There
Struggling to stay in the zone? Meetings. Chat. Interruptions. Distractions. Open offices. There has to be a better way. So we wrote a book to help developers like you get into the zone, and stay there. Accomplish more while finding space to think and recover.
Starting & Sustaining
A Guide to Building and Running a SaaS Business
A self-published book including all digital formats, a self-recorded and produced audiobook, and related resources to help others build and run their own SaaS business with less pain and fewer mistakes.
