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Posts in Development

JSON as Configuration is Hell - 08 August 2025
How to Test Your Emulator - 04 February 2025
Advent of Code... in SQL - 16 December 2024
Interesting Browser Engine Bugs, Part 3: <select> Tags Crash Chrome - 16 August 2024
Interesting Browser Engine Bugs, Part 2: On Video Conferencing - 10 August 2024
Interesting Browser Engine Bugs, Part 1: Test Timeouts - 13 June 2024
Thoughts on "Developers Should Deploy Their Own Code" - 04 October 2023
Ruby Off Rails - 09 August 2023
Launching Dark (Postmortem) - 21 June 2023
Piloting No Manual QA - 12 May 2023
I'm Too Clever - 21 March 2023
Custom RSpec Matchers Give Tests Superpowers - 20 January 2023
Rails, Cron, and a Thundering Herd - 07 January 2023
Failures of Common Sense - 06 January 2023
Launching Dark - 08 November 2022
Heroku Is Deprecating Its Free Tier - 27 August 2022
A Surprising Catch - 11 August 2022
Don't Let Your Systems Fail Deadly - 24 July 2022
Security and Swiss Cheese - 19 July 2022
Working on Projects That "Matter" - 28 June 2022
Building a Microblog in Jekyll - 20 June 2022
Emulating Raspberry Pi LED Matrices in Your Browser - 13 June 2022
Don't Reinvent the Wheel - 08 June 2022
Programmatically Modifying Ancient Fonts - 26 April 2022
MLB Finally Deprecated Its XML API - 11 April 2022
Building a Custom Markup Language for Raspberry Pi LED Matrices - 09 April 2022
Into the Rabbit Hole of Slow Test Suites - 14 March 2022
Implementing Session Expiration in Rails - 13 February 2022
Turtle Graphics - 09 January 2022
Troubleshooting a Rubocop Bug - 04 December 2021
Building Raspberry Pi-Powered LED Sports Scoreboards (and Other Displays) - 11 November 2021
I Now Hate Liquid - 07 November 2021
A Weird Way to Find Work - 27 October 2021
Celebrating Hacktoberfest - 15 October 2021
All About Hyde -- Writing My Own Programming Language - 09 October 2021
August Book Review - 05 September 2021
Writing a Gameboy Game in 2021: Part 6 -- Postmortem - 30 August 2021
Python Decorators Make Callbacks Simple - 26 August 2021
Metaprogramming Smarter Hashes in Ruby - 23 August 2021
Validating Error-Prone Data - 22 August 2021
Fixture Factories in RSpec and FactoryBot - 24 July 2021
On Blogging - 29 June 2021
Kata, Kumite, and Code Golf for Algorithm Practice - 15 June 2021
Combating Memory Bloat in Heroku and Sidekiq - 30 May 2021
How to Deploy a Python Reddit Bot (and Other Scripts) to Heroku - 18 May 2021
Writing a Gameboy Game in 2021: Part 5 -- Screen Transitions - 17 May 2021
Emulating Raspberry Pi LED Panels - 06 May 2021
Devise Flash Messages in JSON Responses - 01 May 2021
I Want to Build the Boat - 30 April 2021
Working Around Deprecated MLB APIs - 17 April 2021
Writing a Gameboy Game in 2021: Part 4 -- Computer AI - 11 April 2021
Writing a Gameboy Game in 2021: Part 3 -- Collision Detection - 06 April 2021
Writing a Gameboy Game in 2021: Part 2 -- Physics - 05 April 2021
Writing a Gameboy Game in 2021: Part 1 -- Graphics - 04 April 2021
Writing a Gameboy Game in 2021: Part 0 -- Introduction - 04 April 2021

Posts in Career advice

Is WGU the New Bootcamp? - 06 February 2024
I'm Too Clever - 21 March 2023
Working on Projects That "Matter" - 28 June 2022
Do Bootcamps Still Make Sense in 2022? - 13 January 2022
Making Molehills of Mountains - 08 November 2021
Staff Engineer - 01 November 2021
A Weird Way to Find Work - 27 October 2021
Transitioning Out of My First Developer Job - 10 September 2021
August Book Review - 05 September 2021
Landing an Interview as a Junior Developer - 03 September 2021
Job Searching Without Leetcode - 17 August 2021
On Blogging - 29 June 2021
Kata, Kumite, and Code Golf for Algorithm Practice - 15 June 2021
On Keeping a Physical Engineering Notebook - 27 May 2021
Coding My Way Into a Job with Major League Baseball - 13 April 2021

Posts in Emulation

How to Test Your Emulator - 04 February 2025
Emulating Raspberry Pi LED Matrices in Your Browser - 13 June 2022
Turtle Graphics - 09 January 2022
Building Raspberry Pi-Powered LED Sports Scoreboards (and Other Displays) - 11 November 2021
Emulating Raspberry Pi LED Panels - 06 May 2021

Posts in Blogging

Building a Microblog in Jekyll - 20 June 2022
I Now Hate Liquid - 07 November 2021
On Blogging - 29 June 2021

Posts in Ruby

Ruby Off Rails - 09 August 2023
Don't Let Your Systems Fail Deadly - 24 July 2022
Security and Swiss Cheese - 19 July 2022
Implementing Session Expiration in Rails - 13 February 2022
Troubleshooting a Rubocop Bug - 04 December 2021
Fixture Factories in RSpec and FactoryBot - 24 July 2021

Posts in Rails

Ruby Off Rails - 09 August 2023
Don't Let Your Systems Fail Deadly - 24 July 2022
Security and Swiss Cheese - 19 July 2022
Implementing Session Expiration in Rails - 13 February 2022
Fixture Factories in RSpec and FactoryBot - 24 July 2021

Posts in Testing

Custom RSpec Matchers Give Tests Superpowers - 20 January 2023
Into the Rabbit Hole of Slow Test Suites - 14 March 2022
Fixture Factories in RSpec and FactoryBot - 24 July 2021

Posts in Job searching

Do Bootcamps Still Make Sense in 2022? - 13 January 2022
Job Searching Without Leetcode - 17 August 2021

Posts in Programming languages

All About Hyde -- Writing My Own Programming Language - 09 October 2021

Posts in Miscellaneous

Consuming Content Sans Google - 03 January 2022
Advent of Code 2021 - 28 December 2021
2021 in Review - 27 December 2021
Making Molehills of Mountains - 08 November 2021
DNA Isn't Code - 02 November 2021

Posts in Raspberry pi

Programmatically Modifying Ancient Fonts - 26 April 2022
Building Raspberry Pi-Powered LED Sports Scoreboards (and Other Displays) - 11 November 2021

Posts in Cycling

An Analysis of Bicycle Crosschaining - 16 November 2021

Posts in Bugs

Rails, Cron, and a Thundering Herd - 07 January 2023
Into the Rabbit Hole of Slow Test Suites - 14 March 2022
Troubleshooting a Rubocop Bug - 04 December 2021

Posts in Documentation

Custom Printing Obscure Technical Manuals - 06 December 2021

Posts in Books

Custom Printing Obscure Technical Manuals - 06 December 2021

Posts in Year end review

2021 in Review - 27 December 2021

Posts in Puzzles

Advent of Code 2021 - 28 December 2021

Posts in Markup

Don't Reinvent the Wheel - 08 June 2022
Building a Custom Markup Language for Raspberry Pi LED Matrices - 09 April 2022

Posts in Security

A Surprising Catch - 11 August 2022
Don't Let Your Systems Fail Deadly - 24 July 2022
Security and Swiss Cheese - 19 July 2022

Posts in 3d printing

Building a 3D Printed ABENICS Mechanism - 09 April 2023
Designing 3D Printable Fabric - 18 December 2022
Patching Non-Adhesion in 3D Prints - 30 September 2022

Posts in Performance

Rails, Cron, and a Thundering Herd - 07 January 2023

Posts in Mechanical engineering

Building a 3D Printed ABENICS Mechanism - 09 April 2023