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I'm a Ruby on Rails developer professionally interested in cycling, hiking, baseball, and video game development on the side. Most of my projects attempt to integrate one or more of these.
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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
