What finally fixed our deployment and Sidekiq mess
A week of production chaos taught me that Sidekiq failures aren't always about Sidekiq. Sometimes it's your database connection pool that's starving everything else.
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The Rails Generation Gap: Why It Matters
From mailing lists to bootcamps, the way people enter Rails has changed. That shift affects how we hire, mentor, and build.
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Dusting Off the Blog (Again)
After a long hiatus, I'm bringing this blog back to life. What changed, why I stopped, and what I'm planning to write about this time around.
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Making Apps Feel Instant: My Experience with Realtime Rails and Apollo
Lessons learned from building realtime features with Apollo and Rails. When optimistic UI works great, when it doesn't, and why I switched to AnyCable.
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The Authentication Dilemma: Sessions vs JWTs in Rails
Why I usually stick with boring cookie sessions, when I reach for JWTs, and the authentication mistakes that taught me lessons the hard way.
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Why I Generate All My TypeScript Types (And You Should Too)
How GraphQL Code Generator saved me from runtime surprises and made my Rails + React apps much more reliable. Plus the gotchas I wish I'd known earlier.
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My Journey Building a GraphQL API with Rails and Apollo
What I learned building a GraphQL API that actually works in production. The mistakes I made, the tools that saved me, and why I'd choose this stack again.
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JavaScript Fatigue is Real (But It's Worth It)
My love-hate relationship with the JavaScript ecosystem. How I learned to stop worrying and embrace the chaos of modern JS development.
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Using Braintree hosted fields with Ruby on Rails
Archived from the original post (2017-09-27). Lightly converted to Markdown; links and examples preserved where possible.
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What Operation Code means to me.
Archived from the original post (2017-09-25). Lightly converted to Markdown.
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Blogging Mondays Premier
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Not all recruiters are evil
Archived from the original post (2017-06-10). Lightly converted to Markdown.
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Q and A with me
Archived from the original post (2017-06-01). Lightly converted to Markdown.
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Why software startups are like the Marine Corps
Archived from the original post (2015-12-01). Lightly converted to Markdown; links and formatting preserved where possible.
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Rails — complex rake task
Archived from the original post (2015-06-23). Lightly converted to Markdown; code examples preserved.
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Offshore, nearshore, come ashore — bringing Rails team in‑house
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Mongodump cron job for nightly backup
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Let Go of Me, SSH Session
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Dealing with Ruby Time
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Setting up a Ruby on Rails development environment on Mavericks (Dean.io)
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Random Thoughts
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Why is Ruby on Rails server setup so damned hard to do?
Archived from the original post (2013-10-17). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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To SaaS or not to SaaS
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Update from Intern #2 — transition to Rails
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New Beginnings
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Make the Unicorns Behave
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Ruby expression snippet for Sublime Text 2
Archived from the original post (2013-04-14). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Rails CRM gets an upgrade
Archived from the original post (2013-03-13). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Merging PDFs in Rails application
Archived from the original post (2013-03-08). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Cleanup files created with RSpec
Archived from the original post (2013-03-06). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Rails/RSpec total test time
Archived from the original post (2013-03-05). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Remote/Telecommuting web development
Archived from the original post (2013-02-08). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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To SaaS or not to SaaS — that is my question
Archived from the original post (2013-02-06). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Rebel Outpost and Open Source
Archived from the original post (2013-01-22). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Plans for 2013
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Another year gone by
Archived from the original post (2012-12-20). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Ubuntu 12.04: Ruby, Rails, Nginx, Unicorn and Git deploy
Archived from the original post (2012-12-19). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Testing with Rails + Select2
Archived from the original post (2012-12-19). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Ubuntu 12.10 server setup for Ruby on Rails
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What’s new
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Giving back to the community
Archived from the original post (2012-10-29). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Startup Weekend Phoenix impression
Archived from the original post (2012-10-22). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Hey companies looking for direct hires
Archived from the original post (2012-10-18). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Rails stuck on the tracks
Archived from the original post (2012-10-11). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Rebel Outpost adds new partner
Archived from the original post (2012-09-21). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Next up: Intern #2
Archived from the original post (2012-09-20). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Dynamically change options for select based on first drop down
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Rails CRM
Archived from the original post (2012-09-06). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Issue installing Ruby after upgrading to Mountain Lion
Archived from the original post (2012-09-04). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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What I have learned as a freelance developer
Archived from the original post (2012-08-30). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Invitation modal
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Writing stories for Pivotal Tracker
Archived from the original post (2012-08-13). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Twitter Bootstrap — oh how I love thee
Archived from the original post (2012-08-02). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Django or Rails
Archived from the original post (2012-08-02). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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My, how they grow up so fast
Archived from the original post (2012-07-31). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Great read: Egoless Programming
Archived from the original post (2012-07-31). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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My intern is all grown up
Archived from the original post (2012-07-19). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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m3talsmith makes daily standup
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Rebel Outpost
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Confirm this web page is being redirected to a new location
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The progression of RebelHold
Archived from the original post (2012-07-03). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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RebelHold: Growing the community
Archived from the original post (2012-05-11). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Life as a Rails developer
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Ruby and Rails 101 Course
Archived from the original post (2012-03-29). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Why RebelHold kicks ass
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Successful entrepreneur in AZ
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RebelHold web development collective
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So you want to be a programmer
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I want to work for you
Archived from the original post (2012-01-13). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Create a Ruby on Rails TODO application (Pt 3)
Archived from the original post (2012-01-05). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Becoming a better developer
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Want to learn a thing or two about programming right here, right now?
Archived from the original post (2011-12-31). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Create a Ruby on Rails TODO application (Pt 2)
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Create a Ruby on Rails TODO application
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First month as RoR programmer
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What’s in a name: programmer or developer?
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Rails: underestimated
Archived from the original post (2011-11-05). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Jobless in Arizona
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Why I love Ruby on Rails
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My Ruby on Rails progress
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Could Phoenix become a technology mecca?
Archived from the original post (2011-06-16). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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Gangplank: co-working in Arizona
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Next steps
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What programming language do I learn?
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Desert Code Camp, Chandler AZ
Archived from the original post (2011-04-05). This is a preservation stub; see the original link for full content.
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What’s going on
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