Archive

2026

• Sep 8

  Logistics of Restraint

• Jun 14

  Saigon Safe: Personalizing open-source for fun and profit

• Jun 11

  Designing With AI on a budget as an engineer: Google+ChatGPT

• Jun 10

  Tokenmining: low token plans maximize your output

• Jan 28

  When Everything Becomes Normal, Nothing Feels Special

• Jan 4

  How I Secure My Most Important Accounts

2025

• Dec 27

  The Tech Industry After the Gold Rush

• Feb 17

  2025’s Career and Hiring Trends - part 2

• Feb 17

  2025’s Career and Hiring Trends

• Jan 25

  Quick guide on advertising mobile app from an ex-Yelp ads engineer

2024

• Oct 31

  At-will employment

• Mar 25

  3 surprising areas Tech can support women

• Feb 19

  Give people space

• Jan 8

  From Snowy Tomato Slices to Tea Debates: Navigating Ukrainian Culture

• Jan 1

  Navigating Cultural Differences: Hilarious Translation Fails.

2023

• Mar 11

  Writing Style for Slack

• Mar 11

  Batch Prompting (cost reduction for LLMs/ChatGPT)

2022

• Jun 7

  NSFW Image detection on Digital Ocean Apps

2021

• Jun 7

  Top 5 Junior tech roles to become software engineers

• Jan 22

  Top Ruby exploits in rubygems.org

2020

• Aug 15

  Life Design: Daily Actions

• Jun 14

  Designing a distributed web crawler

• Jun 14

  System Design Interview Format - 6 Steps to passing

• May 2

  SSO / SAML to JWT: A system design problem

2019

• Mar 14

  How and when to add foreign key constraints

2017

• Mar 11

  Rails: No downtime data migrations

• Mar 11

  Letter Avatars with Serverless

2016

• Dec 28

  Wildcard Google Auth for multiple subdomains

2015

• Dec 6

  I graduated from a code school. Now what?

• Sep 4

  Bulk email sending with Ruby

• Jul 12

  Rails tip: Returning

• Jul 10

  Rails tips: Fast Relation Detection

• Jul 9

  Regex: Escaping Slashes

• Jul 9

  Limited Retry Pattern

• Jun 24

  Adding Queues to your models

• Jun 11

  Hosting Side Projects for Free

• Jun 6

  Adding search to Atlanta Startup Jobs

• Jun 3

  Rails Patterns: Builders and Models

• Apr 7

  Ruby on Rails Grape gem: Pros and Cons

• Mar 12

  Otto meet Retrofit: How to build a scalable and performant Android application

• Jan 13

  Atlanta Startup Jobs - Scratch your own itch

• Jan 8

  SideProject: HappyBeam - Meditate and improve

2014

• Oct 27

  How to win a hackathon

• Oct 10

  One Rails App Two Web Applications

• Oct 8

  Angularjs Rails and SEO Part 2

• Oct 3

  Angularjs Rails and SEO Part 1

• Jul 28

  Buying my first real estate investment

• Jul 23

  How to get OSX git branch name in console

• Jul 5

  How to start web consulting

• Jun 21

  Goodie Hack #2

• Jun 13

  What it takes to be entry level Rails developers

• Jun 5

  Rails 4.1 enums: How not to handle states

• Jun 4

  My path to success

• Jun 1

  Twitter bot on Heroku

• May 31

  Rails and Redis URL Shortener in same application

• May 17

  Tagging Models

• May 17

  Gem Configuration Defaults

• May 15

  Custom Environments with Rails 4

• Apr 30

  NodeJS Chat Guide

• Apr 16

  Rapid Ticket Purchasing and the extendable web

• Mar 24

  Extending Active Record in Rails 4.1

• Mar 18

  Reporting with Rails Part 2

• Mar 11

  Reporting with Rails Part 1

• Feb 14

  Setting up a Ruby on Rails 4.0.1beta1 with OSX Mavericks 10.9