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Rails Service Objects Need a Job Description

// Written at: Sep 6, 2026

Moving code into a service object doesn’t automatically make Rails code cleaner. Learn how clear responsibilities, explicit contracts, and meaningful tests turn an extraction into a better design.

Your tests shouldn't be polite echo chambers

// Written at: Feb 25, 2026

Tests are a critical part of software development, but they can sometimes become polite echo chambers that fail to catch real issues.

Rejection Emails: The Corporate Equivalent of "It's Not You, It's Us" (But Worse)

// Written at: Mar 10, 2025

Why Are Job Rejections So Useless?

Javascript Execution Context 101: This, that, and the other things

// Written at: Apr 25, 2024

Learn how to use this, call, apply, and bind like a Asgardian hammer-wielding mofo.

Let Loose Your Inner Sherlock with a Search Feature

// Written at: Mar 15, 2024

Elevating Your Rails App with a Killer Search Feature

The state of ruby on rails: unleashing your web superpowers to dominate 2024

// Written at: Mar 11, 2024

The why, what, when, and where of using rails in 2024

Unleashing Flexibility Mastering polymorphic Associations

// Written at: Mar 6, 2024

Empowering Your App with Flexibility

Following Users: Because Stalking is so 2010

// Written at: Mar 2, 2024

Adding Some Social Stalking Flair with follow/unfollow users

Rails Service Objects to Make your Rails Controllers Skinny

// Written at: Oct 11, 2023

Moving logic into services to keep your controllers/models skinny

Rails Console Simplified

// Written at: Aug 31, 2023

An article on how to simplify the Rails console command with aliases

Creating a Pixel Tracker with NextJS and Prisma (2022)

// Written at: Oct 31, 2022

An updated version of Pixel Tracking with NextJS and Prisma

Tracking Pixels in ruby

// Written at: Dec 29, 2020

The simplest way to do this is via a tracking pixel – a small, invisible image that is loaded from your server every time your medium is opened.

Parsing An Email List

// Written at: Dec 29, 2020

I been written a code to parse through an email list a client gave me that has roughly 94 emails.

Image Conversion

// Written at: Dec 29, 2020

I wrote a script that allows me to take several images rename them, and then create two resized images in addition.

From Streets to Code

// Written at: Mar 27, 2017

High School dropout to Full Stack Developer

Sorry, I hacked you.

// Written at: Jul 19, 2016

Someone I know from the interwebs posted a site with form that allowed you to sign up to a class of his and he had a huge google sheets security flaw

All you need is love

// Written at: Nov 18, 2014

My now wife asked me to make some vows for our wedding. I thought I would merge the two loves together and wrote this little code poem.

Old-school Twitter Bot in ruby

// Written at: Nov 18, 2014

I had an idea to try to automate search results and reply back to each user with a message on twitter.