Posts

2024

• Systematic system tests considered harmful
  Nov 7
• The gift of constraints
  Sep 9
• Less chat
  Sep 3
• The popover drama
  Jun 2
• Uphill
  Apr 29

2023

• When everyone has a say
  Dec 23
• Demo of how page refreshes with morphing work
  Nov 27
• The radiating programmer
  Nov 20
• Towards smoother page updates in Turbo
  Oct 25
• Exploring server-side diffing in Turbo
  Oct 24
• A happier happy path in Turbo with morphing
  Oct 9
• Navigating personal information with care
  Sep 26
• Minding the small stuff in pull request reviews
  Aug 31
• Difficult and complex
  Aug 11
• Globals, callbacks and other sacrileges
  Aug 1
• Let people be
  Jul 10
• Social media evilness (II)
  Jul 2
• Remote struggles
  Jun 12
• Erase and rewind
  Jun 4
• A Friday email incident
  May 29
• Energy
  Apr 23
• Pending tests
  Mar 2
• Sensations
  Feb 26
• Writing is thinking
  Jan 22
• The best presenter ever
  Jan 18
• The augmented programmer
  Jan 16
• Learning with ChatGPT
  Jan 1

2022

• 2022
  Dec 26
• Stuck
  Dec 23
• Code I like (V): Active Record, nice and blended
  Dec 19
• Compared to what?
  Dec 13
• My curse with plain code editors
  Nov 27
• What defamation looks like
  Nov 15
• Code I like (IV): Vanilla Rails is Plenty
  Nov 8
• Online discussions, the good parts
  Oct 15
• Code I like (III): Good concerns
  Oct 10
• Aging programmer
  Sep 24
• Code I like (II): Fractal journeys
  Sep 18
• Utility-first CSS
  Aug 6
• Code I like (I): Domain-driven boldness
  Jun 13
• What do we want people to feel?
  Jun 5
• Enterprisey expectations
  May 26
• Priceless adversity
  May 16
• Performance in context
  May 14
• Rails attributes: an essential API you can probably ignore
  May 7
• Ceremony
  Apr 30
• What did you work on today?
  Apr 23
• Writing for yourself
  Apr 4
• Not a designer
  Apr 2
• Changing critical code paths with scientist
  Mar 12
• Social media evilness
  Mar 6
• No silver buckets
  Feb 13
• Balance
  Feb 8
• My MacOS essentials
  Feb 5
• Of bugs and giants
  Feb 2
• Silence
  Jan 29

2021

• A system to encrypt data in bulk for Rails
  Dec 22
• Don't block yourself: a remote-worker super-power
  Nov 28
• MacBook Pro M1
  Nov 20
• Career advice
  Oct 9
• Timeboxing away
  Aug 29
• Privacy-aware Rails consoles with console1984 and audits1984
  Aug 19
• Making Rails run just a few tests faster
  Jul 21
• A story of Rails encryption
  Jun 18
• Complexity-inducing narratives
  Apr 19
• Farewell Evernote
  Apr 9
• A Basecamp email: before and after
  Mar 19
• Extracting, not inventing
  Mar 14
• Smelling Rails smells
  Mar 6

2020

• Celebrating 3 million accounts (fewer)
  Jun 11

2019

• 2019, what a year
  Dec 28
• How I got hired by Basecamp
  Dec 17
• On software development metaphors, programmers and engineers
  Sep 29
• Goodbye Bandzoogle
  Sep 27
• Programming quotes that blew my mind
  Sep 19
• Invoking the Interactive Brokers API from Ruby
  Jul 7
• On Ruby and type checkers
  Jun 22
• Impersonator, a Ruby library to record and replay object interactions
  Jun 16
• Processing text files in Ruby simultaneously
  Apr 14
• Two niceties about Ruby Structs
  Mar 24
• Form validations with HTML5 and modern Rails
  Feb 16

2018

• Development costs, the cornerstone of any nutritious process
  Aug 9
• Escaping the SPA rabbit hole with modern Rails
  Jul 4
• Rails rendering with Turbolinks
  Jun 20
• Productivity and task management software
  May 27
• On Rails testing
  May 19
• Learning Ansible
  May 12
• Resilience, a double-edged sword
  Apr 9
• Mind your dependencies
  Mar 15

2017

• Testing a command-line tool with plain Ruby
  Nov 26
• IndexedDB, camels, and committees
  May 9
• Ruby enumerators are slow... and wonderful
  May 4
• Comparing Ruby, Swift, and Crystal for processing a big file
  May 2
• On working remotely
  Apr 22

2015

• Open Source Oriented Architecture
  Oct 4
• Moved to Jekyll
  Sep 26

2014

• Forceps: import models from remote databases
  Feb 4

2013

• Mailgun adapter for Action Mailer
  Sep 4
• On better information habits
  Aug 20

2012

• Why I love RubyMine
  Dec 29
• Continuous delivery with Jenkins and Heroku
  Jul 11

2011

• Evernicious: A tool for importing del.icio.us bookmarks into Evernote
  Jan 2

2010

• Using delayed_job with Cucumber
  Sep 1
• Dependency injection and other Java necessary evils
  May 30
• I have read' 'The Inmates Are Running the Asylum'
  Mar 19
• Using macros to create custom example groups in RSpec
  Jan 16
• I have read' 'The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering'
  Jan 9

2009

• Evaluating code dynamically in Groovy (differences with Ruby)
  Oct 10
• Slides of a talk on agile development and estimation for Preparatic
  Sep 8
• About agile estimating in hours
  Sep 8
• The Composed Method implementation pattern
  Jun 28
• Slides of Agile Development and Rails Course
  Apr 12
• Research Report on Model Driven Software Development (2006)
  Apr 12
• Slides of Web Accesibility Course
  Apr 10
• The role of models in Agile and Model Driven Development approaches
  Apr 5
• A nice iPhone tool for agile development
  Feb 16

2008

• Errors in my post on Comparing EMF Models
  Nov 19
• Generating JUnit Test Cases Dynamically
  Sep 18
• Comparing EMF Models
  Jul 6
• Posting from Textmate
  May 31
• Skittlish theme for Typo
  May 23