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I just completed the updated Ruby Koans (still the classic edgecase repo, with only minor tweaks needed for modern Ruby), and I’m genuinely impressed by how well they’ve aged. The core experience is almost unchanged, and it del...

Howdy! Have you ever built a site (primarily on mobile) and gotten frustrated by the white space peeking out when you scroll past the top or bottom of the page? It's like the browser's way of saying, Hey, nothing here. Wanna se...

Enter base classes, virtual methods, and override functionality. I’ve been using this OOP design pattern quite a bit at work. These patterns are a fundamental layer in OOP and can help extend and make code very reusable (by eli...

I’ve been working through the Structy.net course recently to gain a deeper understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms (as the aspiring Software Engineer does). The course is great, and Alvin is a terrific teacher! The lesson...

Regex is inevitable! Maybe it’s not the tool for everyday use, but I am finding myself reaching for it a lot more than usual lately. There were two main ways I was getting my regex:

I recently landed a full-time Software Engineer role working with C# and .NET, and so far, it’s been fantastic! Transitioning from Ruby and Rails is a learning curve, but I’m really enjoying the deliberate, statically-typed nat...

We need to talk about DJ Shadow’s - The Private Press! This is his second album and so far, I’ve come back to it many times throughout my life. I recall this being an album that a friend put on my iPod back in middle school (20...

When I started this blog, I knew embedding photos and a serverless file upload solution (likely S3) for screenshots and custom photos was a feature I definitely needed. And two months ago at the Boulder Ruby Meetup, Kyle Brackm...

When it comes to using S3 with Rails, a quick Google search can line up lots of awesome resources and posts that discuss the process in full. I wanted to add to this list and highlight navigating S3 for the typical Rails config...

Docker is such a fantastic tool for software development and I can’t think of a reason not to use it when applicable. In this quick blog post, I’ll show you how to use Docker and the official Docker Hub image to spin up a simpl...