Sihui Huang
I write to help junior Ruby & Elixir developers advance their careers.
A friend of yours who might be one step ahead and always happy to help. 🙂
Areas of focus: Ruby & Rails, Software Design, Career Development.
Weekly Learnings
My weekly learnings on the journey of becoming a tech lead.
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Week #10: Communication: Getting on the Same Page
7 min read
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Week #9: Voicing Your Opinions as An Engineer
7 min read
Week #8: Senior Engineers, Stop Doing Everything
7 min read
Week #7: The other side of technical skill: Domain Knowledge and Long-term Vision
8 min read
Week #6: Handling Disagreements and Conflicts at Work
11 min read
Week #5: Stressed out by work responsibilities? Focus on creating impact instead.
9 min read
Week #4: Not Working Overtime, but Working Flexibly
6 min read
Week #3: Refactoring Legacy Code V.S. Staying Focused On The Current Project
7 min read
Week #2: Never feel overwhelmed at work again- the M.I.T. technique
8 min read
Week #1: The Fastest Way to Get Promoted as an Engineer
5 min read
Elixir
Ruby & Rails
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Moving Millions of Dollars with Ruby
🎙 Conference Talk
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Ouch! That Code Hurts My Brain.
🎙 Conference Talk
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How to Contribute to Ruby
6 min read
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Who are you? Self-awareness In Ruby
4 min read
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Intimidated by the Official Rails Guides? Here is the Cure.
7 min read
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Frustrated Learning Rails? Here is What You Should Do.
7 min read
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Combining has_many :through with polymorphic associations in ActiveRecord
5 min read
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Code Blocks, Procs, Lambdas, and Closures in Ruby
4 min read
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Scopes, Universes, & Lunch Boxes; Procs vs Lambdas in Ruby
3 min read
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Proc <> Code Block Conversion and Ampersand(&) in Ruby
4 min read
Software Design
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Three Days with Sandi Metz on Practical Object-Oriented Design
10 min read
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Code Smell Cheat Sheet
7 min read
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When to Refactor
4 min read
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🌟 Design Patterns in Life and Ruby Series 🌟
13 posts and counting
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Design Pattern: Decorator and Waffle
7 min read
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Design Pattern: Simple Factory and Cheesecake Factory
7 min read
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Design Pattern: Template Method and Chipotle
5 min read
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Design Pattern: Strategy and Burger
5 min read
Career Development
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The Fastest Way to Get Promoted as an Engineer
5 min read
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Two Years at Gusto: Everything But Code
11 min read
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Goal-driven is a losing mindset. It’s better to think of everything as an evolving process.
3 min read
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Dealing with Unknowns and Humans in the Software World.
4 min read
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Knowing what needs to be done.
2 min read
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When you are most helpless, you are most empowered.
2 min read
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From Hello World to Six Job Offers From Facebook, Airbnb, Salesforce…
28 mins read
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To self-doubting developers: are you good enough?
8 min read
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18 Months at Gusto: The “Unhappy” Paths
8 min read
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Stop Thinking Like A Developer. Think outside-in.
7 min read
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One Year at Gusto — the 15 things I learned
10 min read
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Six Months at Gusto. What I Did, Experienced, and Learned.
13 min read