Category: Development

After making small changes to a model, it got me thinking hard about how I build interfaces.

State Design Pattern is often overlooked in favor State Machines when it comes to Rails and object state management. However, the State Design Pattern is a highly effective open/closed solution to many state design woes.

A quick overview of using associations to define good domain descriptions as well as good behavior.

I've always had complaints about emacs performance but the latest native compilation branch squashes any concerns I have with it.

I am a sucker for small micro-optimizations in my Emacs config. The Run Command package gives plenty of opportunity for that, while also building powerful automation opportunities. Here's the config I came up with for an RSpec watch mode.

Tell Rails to pass routes to a client with a nifty helper.

I'm relatively new to using Docker and wanted a quick way to spin up a small React application using Docker so I could easily share it as a proof of concept for features I develop at work. Here's a quick guide to dockerizing a React app made with create-react-app.

Managing dotfiles with org mode is exceptionally easy with tools like org-babel-tangle.