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Rethink Everything
Almost every best practice I taught was an optimization for the human programmer. The human isn't the one writing the code anymore, so I'm rethinking all of it.
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Writing code, Ruby on Rails, AI, developer tools, the craft of building software, life, careers, love, the future, and everything in between.
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Design Previews for Ruby on Rails
You are iterating on a design. Maybe you are redesigning your dashboard. Maybe you are trying three different layouts for a landing page. Maybe Cla...
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I Ran GPT-5 Against My MacBook. The Laptop Won.
I just watched a $3,000 laptop beat OpenAI’s best model at something that actually matters. Not at generating poetry or philosophical musings. Pla...
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Generating Audio Waveform Images in Ruby
Audio waveforms allow us to visualize the waveform of an audio file - displaying the amplitude of the audio signal over time. They are often used i...
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Why Teach and Learn Ruby?
As the Co-Founder and Dean of Flatiron School I thought it important to write a response to the recent implication that because a school switched t...
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What I Wish I Knew Before Teaching Myself How to Code
These days, I get to teach people to program at Flatiron School, but I’m personally self-taught—I’ve been teaching myself teaching myself how to co...
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