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Super Powers for ActiveRecord::Relation
May 31, 20241 minuteWhenever you query your database with Rails, what you get in return is an An ActiveRecord::Relation; a chainable object that is lazily evaluated aga…
Rails on Docker Part Two
April 02, 20223 minutesAs I continued following along the tutorial from the book Docker for Rails Developers , it was about to become evident that a lot had changed since…
Rails on Docker
March 13, 20222 minutesThe company I work for uses Docker containers, both in development and production, but the whole things is so abstracted away from the work I do eve…
The code we write today
February 04, 20223 minutesRecently, I was tasked with making updates to an existing integration with a third party. Although in the beginning the change sounded very straight…
Story of a laptop upgrade
December 12, 20211 minuteAfter nearly six years, I've finally upgraded my personal computer! I waited long, but I wanted to be sure the reviews were favorable enough before …
Once upon a Blog
October 24, 20212 minutesIf you've known me for a while, you may also know this is probably the third or fourth of many incarnations of this blog. And that's without counting…
Blue Socks Spotted at Orange
May 13, 20171 minuteThis year, I had the privilege of being invited to join the team of Planning Center exhibitors at the Orange conference in Atlanta, GA. As a develope…
The Initial State Gotcha
April 12, 20171 minuteI ran into an issue recently while refactoring an existing React component in our application at work. Part of my changes to the component included w…
React Conf 2017
March 15, 20171 minuteI consider myself extremely fortunate to work for a company that values education and provides their employees with the time and resources to attend …
TIL: Working with a D3 based chart library
December 24, 20161 minuteOne of the things I love about my job is that I get to explore different aspects of web development, including all sorts of interesting libraries tha…