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2026

• AI Retrospective, Predictions

  Mar 4

2025

• How We’re Working, 2025

  Aug 4

• Designing a Hiring Loop in the Age of AI

  Jul 2

• Letting Others Get Rich

  Jan 25

• Moving on from React, a Year Later

  Jan 18

2024

• How We’re Working, 2024

  May 17

• Moving on from React

  Jan 15

2023

• What’s Next

  Jun 7

• Divining Dreams and Exploring LLMs

  Mar 20

2022

• TikTok Videos

  Nov 30

2021

• Why Finish Technical Migrations?

  Feb 23

• It Has Been Zero Days Since…

  Feb 2

• So You Want to Store a File…

  Jan 26

• Weekly Updates

  Jan 19

• Testing Performance

  Jan 12

• Campaigns

  Jan 6

2020

• Sustainable Changes

  Nov 3

• Enumerate the Options

  Nov 3

• From 25 Minutes to 7 Minutes: Improving the Performance of a Rails CI Pipeline

  May 18

• How to Break Apart a Rails Monolith

  Mar 12

2019

• Taming Large Rails Applications with Private ActiveRecord Models

  Oct 29

• A Framework for Making Technology-Product Decisions

  Oct 23

• Keep All Commits Green

  Jul 15

• A Vacancy Has Been Detected

  Jun 19

• Ex Post Facto Testing

  Apr 13

• 3 Best Practices for Rails Engines

  Apr 8

• This One Technology Will Solve All of Your Problems

  Mar 23

• Taming Monoliths without Microservices — Rubyconf AU 2019 Talk

  Feb 7

2018

• Better Code Through Mutation Testing

  Dec 28

• Activities for Encouraging Feedback on Your Team

  Oct 18

• Receiving Feedback

  Oct 17

• Giving Feedback

  Oct 16

• Feedback for Engineers

  Oct 15

• 8 Tips for Great Code Reviews

  Oct 8

• Same as It Ever Was — EmpireJS 2018 Talk

  Sep 21

• Simple Made Easy: Imperative Loops vs. Set functions

  Aug 2

• The Teeth

  Jul 20

• Simple Made Easy: Methods vs. Functions

  Jul 13

• Simple Made Easy: State vs. Values

  Jul 5

• I’ve Made a Huge Mistake — GoRuCo 2018 Talk

  Jun 16

• How This Blog is Built

  Apr 12

• Refactoring: Remove Mixin

  Apr 5

• In Pursuit of Correctness

  Mar 26

• Rails Callbacks Flatten Layered Architecture

  Jan 15

2017

• Year in Review, 2017

  Dec 27

• Refactoring: Removing Tangled Control Coupling

  Dec 7

• Quantifying Technical Debt

  Oct 24

• Exercises to Deepen Your Understanding of Legacy Code

  Oct 13

• Mētis

  Sep 19

• Embracing Functional Programming in Ruby

  Sep 13

• Comment Drift

  Sep 1

• A Reading List

  Aug 30

• Building a Briefcase that Deploys Code

  Jul 6

• Test Vices

  Jun 21

• Extreme Programming Explained

  Jun 20

• Count the Contexts

  Jun 16

• Refactoring: Replace Side Effects with Return Values

  Jun 11

• Domain-Driven Design

  Jun 7

• Deletability

  May 29

• Design Pressure

  Apr 18

• Outside In, or Inside Out?

  Feb 15

• Do We Need GraphQL?

  Jan 2

2016

• A Ruby Gem: strict_templates

  Oct 30

• Visualizing a Job Search or: How to Find a Job as a Software Engineer

  Oct 20

• Side Project: Puppy Alert!

  Sep 14

• A Real-time Recipe for Rails and Ember using Pusher

  Sep 10

• Side Project: Personal Network

  Sep 9

• Something Fun: The Search Continues

  Aug 9

• Book Review: Never Eat Alone

  Aug 3

• Generating Color Utility Classes in SASS

  Jul 27

• Why Do Developers Hate LinkedIn?

  Jul 13

• Book Review: Winning with Data

  Jun 29

• Boiling the Ocean with Markup

  Jun 23

• Storytelling

  Jun 21

• Last Day at imgix

  Jun 7

2015

• Startup Theory of Relativity

  Jul 21

• Monoliths, Microservices, and MVCx2

  May 26

• Rethinking Static Sites

  May 19

• Joining imgix

  May 1

• Hype Train, April 2015

  Apr 15

• Avoiding component “action cruft” in Ember

  Feb 20

• Public Drafts with Jekyll

  Feb 18

• Unit Testing Ember Controllers backed by Ember Data

  Feb 17

2013

• Great Design is Great Writing

  Jan 14

2012

• Google Fiber and the 15-Year Plan

  Jul 27

• Berlin

  Jun 20

• The Future of Retina Images on the Web

  Apr 3

• Length Over Strength

  Mar 23

• Abstracting Energy

  Mar 1

• Defining a Decade

  Feb 10

2011

• Making the Jump

  Dec 15

• 12 Steps to Writing Better Web Code

  Nov 15

• Staying Fast

  Oct 27

• Why Don’t Developers Dress Better?

  Sep 28

• Your Idea is Terrible

  Sep 13

• Ideas Aren’t Worthless

  Sep 7

• LayerVault is a Strange Loop

  Sep 1

• My Initial Take on FCP X

  Jun 23

• Friendly Competition in Startups

  Mar 20

• Fixing Computer Science College Education

  Mar 6

2010

• Choosing New York Over San Francisco

  Aug 3