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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 hour...
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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.
Code
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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Code
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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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