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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...
6 min
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Words & Writing
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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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...
7 min
An ActiveStorage S3 Direct Uploader: Part 3: Upload Progress
We left off having a functional uploadzone that can handle multiple files and upload them to directly S3. You can drag and drop a file into the zon...
12 min
Ruby on Rails
An ActiveStorage S3 Direct Uploader: Part 2: Direct Upload to S3
In Part 1 we created a Rails app with ActiveStorage and S3. We also built an uploadzone component that can handle the files and prepare to pass the...
6 min
Ruby on Rails
ActiveStorage S3 Direct Uploader: Part 1: Drag and Drop Interface
You want a fast fancy uploader to be an easy thing to implement. But it gets tricky. I'll do my best to explain how I built the Uploader for Musicb...
9 min
Code
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...
13 min
Personal
Why I Started Coding
My mom was an elementary school teacher. Every day after school she’d tutor her students, and I’d have to wait around for her for two hours, playin...
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