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Same as It Ever Was - EmpireJS Talk Posted

November 13, 2018

Hope everyone had a great weekend! Earlier last week, the video for my EmpireJS talk was posted. This talk starts with a question: "What is webpack and why...

Encouraging Feedback on Your Team

October 18, 2018

Welcome to Thursday, Folks! Today brings the final post in my feedback series, Encouraging Feedback on Your Team. This post is designed to help the rubber...

Receiving Feedback

October 17, 2018

Good morning, Folks! This week I’m exploring the topic of giving and receiving feedback as a software engineer. Hopefully by writing this stuff down, we can...

Feedback for Engineers: A New Blog Post Series

October 16, 2018

Hello Folks, This week I’m trying something new: Rather than putting together a single blog post for the week, you’re getting 3. It’s an entire series called...

8 Tips for Great Code Reviews

October 10, 2018

It’s Tuesday, my friends. This week has a new blog post about giving great code reviews for your teams: 8 Tips for Great Code Reviews. This is a post that...

A Talk from EmpireJS

October 2, 2018

Hello Folks! A week and a half ago, I had the opportunity to speak at EmpireJS. This was a 2-day JavaScript conference in New York with interesting talks...

The Teeth — A new blog post about continuous improvement

July 26, 2018

It is Wednesday, my folks. This week brings a blog post about continuous improvement and the perils of large releases. I first heard the idea while listening...

Methods vs. Functions — Continuing with Simple Made Easy

July 16, 2018

Hello, Monday! This week brings a post that continues the exploration from Rich Hickey’s Simple Made Easy talk. We dive into the next item in the Simplicity...

State vs. Values — A New Blog Post About Great Software Design

July 12, 2018

It is Wednesday, my dudes folks. This week brings a new blog post based on one of my favorite technical talks, Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey. The talk...

[Video] Goruco 2018 Talk — I’ve Made a Huge Mistake

July 4, 2018

Hello Folks! The video to my talk at Goruco 2018 was posted. This talk covers breaking up a Rails monolith at Gusto along with some concrete tips we use day-...

I've Made a Huge Mistake - Gotham Ruby Conference 2018 Talk

June 25, 2018

Hello Folks! This week brings a blog post of a talk given at the Gotham Ruby Conference on June 16, 2018. I had the privilege to deliver a talk about some...

Two New Blog Posts and More!

April 14, 2018

Hello Folks, Hopefully your spring is full of longer days and more sun without too many allergies. This week brings two new blog posts, one about refactoring...

In Pursuit of Correctness

March 28, 2018

Hello Folks! It’s been a little while. This week brings the first new post in some time. Slow start to the year. Other than this new blog post, I’ve also...

New Year, New Post

January 18, 2018

Hi Folks, This week brings a post about circular dependencies. It’s about Rails callbacks, but on a deeper level it’s about how those can introduce cycles in...

Refactoring: Removing Tangled Control Coupling

December 8, 2017

Hi Folks, It’s been a little while! We got a TV at home so we have been getting that broken in. We’ve been enjoying The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as of late....

Quantifying Technical Debt

October 26, 2017

Hi Folks, This week brings a topic near and dear to my heart: technical debt. This topic has been an enigma in my professional life for a while now. We know...

Exercises to Deepen Your Understanding of Legacy Code

October 13, 2017

Hi Folks, Happy Friday! Today brings a simple little blog post that covers a few tactics I use to better understand legacy code. Before you change code, you...

Blog Post: Mētis

September 20, 2017

Hi Folks, This week’s blog post is about a topic I first discovered while reading the book Seeing Like a State. It’s called “Mētis” and refers to the...

Embracing Functional Programming in Ruby

September 14, 2017

Hi Folks, This week brings a blog post about bringing functional programming to a traditionally more object-oriented language, Ruby. At Gusto, we’ve been...

New Blog Post: Comment Drift

September 5, 2017

Hi Folks, Hope those in the US enjoyed yesterday’s holiday. It’s been a quiet few weeks on the blog, due to keeping busy at work. We ran a boot camp for some...