• My Fish Oil Experiment

  • 23 Feb 2017
  • health
  • fitness

  I've spent the last 8 months running a sustained self-experiment on fish oil supplements. Here are the results.

• Replacing Controller Mixins with Services

  • 14 Jan 2017
  • ruby
  • rails
  • architecture

  How to use Rails services to extract shared behaviors out of controllers. This helps to keep your controllers light on logic, self-documenting, and free of tangled dependencies.

• What is Logic

  • 20 Aug 2016

  I studied logic. Now I write software for a living. This confuses some people. What is logic? How is it related to computers? This is how I understand it.

• Buying Ethereum on Coinbase

  • 18 Jul 2016
  • crypto

  How to buy ether through Coinbase's GDAX digital currency exchange.

• The Single Responsibility Principle, Part 1

  • 19 May 2016
  • architecture

  How I fail to understand it and you can too.

• Breakpoints in Ruby and Elixir

  • 23 Apr 2016
  • ruby
  • elixir

  Knowing how to set and interact with breakpoints in a language is crucial to efficient debugging. Here's a side-by-side comparison of breakpoints in Ruby and Elixir.

• How to not use a Mouse on OSX

  • 19 Dec 2015
  • dev-env

  Using a mouse is almost always an avoidable waste of time. Here's how I get by without one.

• Deploy and Host a Ruby App Running Non-Web Processes

  • 11 Dec 2015
  • ruby
  • dev-ops

  Most ruby apps use web frameworks such as Rails or Sinatra, and thus are deployed and hosted to run web servers. I recently had the need to host something out of the norm: a plain-old ruby app running non-web processes. I did it using capistrano, foreman, upstart, and monit. Here's...