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Down a QMK rabbit hole

March 24, 2025

Playing with MySQL's slow query log

March 7, 2024

Grokking instance_eval

November 10, 2023

The 20/20/20 Rule for Micro-breaks

August 17, 2023

Adventures in Time: Debugging a Daylight Saving Bug

March 4, 2023

Writing Neovim plugins with Ruby

November 6, 2022

Practicing Ortholinear

August 31, 2022

Hacking up a vim colour scheme

August 19, 2022

Teach yourself something you already know

April 26, 2022

Conditionals: Better at the Edges

February 24, 2022

Practicing boundaries

January 20, 2022

The hidden features of `caller`

November 18, 2021

Hello, Rails! My first Rails contribution

November 3, 2021

Global variables are awesome (for debugging)

October 18, 2021

find with -print0

October 13, 2021

Run specific RSpec examples with -e

October 12, 2021

Upgrading Rails: Tracking down deprecated callbacks in Rails 5.0

April 20, 2020

Herding Files — and goats — with git

February 27, 2020

A Deep Dive into Routing and Controller Dispatch in Rails

March 17, 2019

A Weird and Wonderful Trip through Ruby’s Standard Library

December 2, 2018

Learn Haskell, Write Better Ruby

June 24, 2018

Focused `puts` debugging with STDERR

March 23, 2018

Design Patterns in Ruby: Strategy Pattern

January 2, 2018

Tips for Finding Focus

August 25, 2017

A Deep Dive into CSRF Protection in Rails

July 30, 2017


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