You Are Your Own Worst Critic
Explore strategies to overcome self-sabotaging habits and impostor syndrome in your career. Learn to identify and break negative patterns for professional growth and self-confidence.
Accessibility is a Requirement
Discover how to create accessible web applications, improve user experience, and comply with legal requirements. Learn practical techniques and foster an environment prioritizing accessibility.
Missing Guide to Service Objects in Rails
Explore service objects in Rails, covering approaches for error handling, code reuse, directory organization, and OO vs functional patterns, to enhance custom business logic implementation.
New Dev, Old Codebase - A Series of Mentorship Stories
Explore mentorship experiences in software development, learning techniques to teach and teaching to learn. Discover how anyone can become a great mentor and contribute to thriving tech communities.
How to Be a Great Developer Without Being a Great Coder
Strategies for excelling as a developer beyond coding skills, focusing on problem-solving, learning techniques, and non-technical attributes to boost your career and confidence.
Can I Break This - Writing Resilient Save Methods
Discover techniques for writing resilient save operations, preventing data loss and dropped messages. Learn to spot and prevent subtle race conditions in your code.
A Third Way for Open-Source Maintenance
Explore a sustainable approach to open-source maintenance that focuses on encouraging contributions and expanding the contributor pool, rather than relying solely on maintainers.
How Reference Librarians Can Help Us Help Each Other
Discover how reference librarian practices can improve team communication and knowledge sharing, breaking down barriers to asking for and providing help in engineering environments.
Writing Design Docs for Wide Audiences
Learn to create effective design documents that convince and align stakeholders, addressing key questions and involving the right people for successful technical communication.
Rescue Mission Accomplished
Learn strategies to salvage failing projects through incremental refactoring, managing tech debt, and effective stakeholder communication.
Using Monads for Elegant Error Handling
Explore functional programming and monads for cleaner, more expressive error handling in Ruby applications, improving code readability and maintainability.
Contractualism + Software Engineering - We're All In This Together
Explore ethical decision-making in software engineering through contractualism, focusing on treating users as part of a larger community and considering the "user stack" in your work.
Gradual Typing in Ruby - A Three Year Retrospective
Explore Shopify's journey with gradual typing in Ruby, including challenges, wins, and insights for implementing it in your own codebase and team.
A History of Compiling Ruby
Explore the fascinating history of Ruby compilers, tracing major advances in compiler research and examining 16 attempts to build Ruby-to-machine code compilers.
Debug.gem - Ruby's New Debug Functionality
Explore Ruby's new debug.gem: fastest debugger, remote debugging, VSCode integration, and advanced features for efficient development and troubleshooting.
Enjoy Ruby Programming in IDE and TypeProf
Explore TypeProf's potential to enhance Ruby development in IDEs, offering modern features like error reporting and refactoring without type annotations. Learn about the prototype and future plans.
Why We Worry About All the Wrong Things
Explore root causes of fear and anxiety, learn to rewrite instincts, and redirect worry towards productive outcomes for a safer, happier, and less stressful life and career.
Picoruby and PRK Firmware
Explore PicoRuby and PRK Firmware: innovative Ruby implementations for microcontrollers and keyboard programming. Learn to create custom keymaps and extend functionality using Ruby's powerful features.
Engineering at Root
Discover how Root is revolutionizing car insurance using technology to measure driving behavior, offering fairer rates, and building innovative software to power their mission.
Golf Scripting with Ruby - Helping Santa Schedule Christmas
Discover Ruby's hidden features while solving Santa's scheduling challenge through code golf. Learn algorithmic problem-solving and optimize your Ruby code for brevity and efficiency.
Hello, Computer - Writing Ruby with Voice Recognition
Explore voice-controlled coding with Talon, a tool for developers facing repetitive stress injuries. Learn commands, tips, and accessibility features for hands-free Ruby programming.