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🌟 Design Patterns in Life and Ruby Series 🌟

13 posts and counting

From Hello World to Six Job Offers From Facebook, Airbnb, Salesforce…

28 mins read

Week #1: The Fastest Way to Get Promoted as an Engineer

5 min read

First Impression of Elixir, from a Rubyist’s Perspective

11 min read

How to Contribute to Elixir: A Step-by-Step Guide

9 mins read

Moving Millions of Dollars with Ruby

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Ouch! That Code Hurts My Brain.

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How to Contribute to Ruby

6 min read

Who are you? Self-awareness In Ruby

4 min read

Intimidated by the Official Rails Guides? Here is the Cure.

7 min read

Frustrated Learning Rails? Here is What You Should Do.

7 min read

Combining has_many :through with polymorphic associations in ActiveRecord

5 min read

Code Blocks, Procs, Lambdas, and Closures in Ruby

4 min read

Scopes, Universes, & Lunch Boxes; Procs vs Lambdas in Ruby

3 min read

Proc <> Code Block Conversion and Ampersand(&) in Ruby

4 min read

Three Days with Sandi Metz on Practical Object-Oriented Design

10 min read

Code Smell Cheat Sheet

7 min read

When to Refactor

4 min read

🌟 Design Patterns in Life and Ruby Series 🌟

13 posts and counting

Design Pattern: Decorator and Waffle

7 min read

Design Pattern: Simple Factory and Cheesecake Factory

7 min read

Design Pattern: Template Method and Chipotle

5 min read

Design Pattern: Strategy and Burger

5 min read

The Fastest Way to Get Promoted as an Engineer

5 min read

Two Years at Gusto: Everything But Code

11 min read

Goal-driven is a losing mindset. It’s better to think of everything as an evolving process.

3 min read

Dealing with Unknowns and Humans in the Software World.

4 min read

Knowing what needs to be done.

2 min read

When you are most helpless, you are most empowered.

2 min read

From Hello World to Six Job Offers From Facebook, Airbnb, Salesforce…

28 mins read

To self-doubting developers: are you good enough?

8 min read

18 Months at Gusto: The “Unhappy” Paths

8 min read

Stop Thinking Like A Developer. Think outside-in.

7 min read

One Year at Gusto — the 15 things I learned

10 min read

Six Months at Gusto. What I Did, Experienced, and Learned.

13 min read