programming | Writing

January 2, 2018 4 min

FizzBuzz the Elixir way — pattern matching, pipelines, and the little syntactic moves that make the language feel obvious once it clicks.

October 20, 2017 5 min

Force canonical domains in a Phoenix app with a small plug — redirect www to apex and keep SEO tidy without reaching for Nginx.

April 6, 2016 1 min

A practical introduction to Elixir and Phoenix for developers coming from Ruby, Python, or Node — what to learn first and why.

March 1, 2016 3 min

Ruby’s gsub is more powerful than most developers realize. Blocks, backreferences, and the patterns that make it a swiss-army knife.

July 4, 2015 8 min

The talks, hallway conversations, and themes that defined RailsConf 2015 — a snapshot of the Rails community at that moment.

March 25, 2015 3 min

Podcasts are the best passive learning tool engineers have. The shows I trust for keeping up with Ruby, Elixir, and the craft.

January 13, 2015 5 min

Comments papering over confusing code are a smell. Why the right move is usually to rewrite the code, not narrate it.

January 1, 2015 5 min

Staying current as a working engineer takes intent, not free time. How I carved out space to keep learning without burning out.

December 4, 2014 3 min

Software craftsmanship is more than a slogan. A working developer’s view on what the label should actually mean day to day.

October 23, 2014 3 min

Reflections from the 2014 Adobe ColdFusion Summit — the sessions worth attending, the conversations that stuck, and the state of the ecosystem.

October 13, 2014 5 min

Why I left ColdFusion for Ruby — the ecosystem, the community, and the practical reasons that made the switch worth it.

September 29, 2014 6 min

Debugging is less about tools than about thinking clearly under pressure. A reflection on how senior engineers actually find and fix bugs.

August 29, 2014 1 min

Programming is frustrating, repetitive, and humbling — and yet. An honest love letter to the craft, bugs and all.

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