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2026

No epicyclesoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2026

2025

That’s not refactoringoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2025
Abstraction and Emergenceoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2025
Abstraction != abstractnessoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2025
Programming principles as memesoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2025
Meatspace abstractionsoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2025
How do we tell what’s a good programming practice?original ↗
22 Jan 2025
Programming is technical writingoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2025

2024

Sharp blades and dull bladesoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2024
Testing anti-pattern: accessing private propertiesoriginal ↗
24 May 2024
Testing anti-pattern: merged setup dataoriginal ↗
15 May 2024

2023

Why the text on my site isn’t full-width or centeredoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2023
Using ChatGPT to reduce “study and synthesize” workoriginal ↗
1 May 2023
In defense of productivityoriginal ↗
1 May 2023
Why duplication is more acceptable in testsoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2023
Why tests flake more on CI than locallyoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2023
How I fix flaky testsoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2023
Binary search debuggingoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2023
What causes flaky testsoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2023

2022

Keep test code and application code separateoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2022
Modeling legacy code behavior using scienceoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2022
Premature generalizationoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2022
Cohesionoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2022
Crisp boundariesoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2022
Why I organize my tests by domain concept, not by test typeoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2022
Organizing Rails files by meaningoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2022
Duplicationoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2022
The difference between procs and lambdas in Rubyoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2022
Why global variables are badoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2022
When good code is important and when it’s notoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2022
Why DSLs are a necessary part of learning Rails testingoriginal ↗
31 May 2022
Do I have to code in my free time in order to be a good programmer?original ↗
11 May 2022
Ruby memoizationoriginal ↗
8 May 2022
The four phases of a testoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2022
The Brainpower Conservation Principleoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2022
How I make a Git commitoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2022
The problem that ViewComponent solves for meoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2022
Atomic commitsoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2022
Order and chaosoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2022
Don’t trust yourselforiginal ↗
10 Mar 2022
Human brains are no match for programmingoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2022
Why I think live-coding interviews are a good ideaoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2022
Abstraction in Railsoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2022
Linux show date and timeoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2022
When I do TDD and when I don’toriginal ↗
14 Feb 2022
How to apply a bugfixoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2022
Don’t mix jobsoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2022
If you want to learn testing, first learn how to program in feedback loopsoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2022
Rails can only take you so faroriginal ↗
8 Jan 2022
How and why to use Ruby’s method_missingoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2022
“Am I smart enough for programming?”original ↗
7 Jan 2022

2021

How Ruby’s instance_exec worksoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2021
How to save time and brainpower by dividing the bugfix process into three distinct stepsoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2021
Why I don’t buy “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction”original ↗
28 Dec 2021
The “20 Questions” method of debuggingoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2021
How to program in feedback loopsoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2021
How to avoid wasteful refactoringoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2021
Bugfixes don’t make good onboarding tasksoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2021
How map(&:some_method) worksoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2021
Understanding Ruby closuresoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2021
The two common ways to call a Ruby blockoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2021
What the ampersand in front of &block meansoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2021
Understanding Ruby Proc objectsoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2021
Hangman Challenge refactor (November 2021)original ↗
15 Nov 2021
What should I NOT write tests for?original ↗
12 Nov 2021
How to get familiar with a new codebaseoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2021
How to defend good codeoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2021
How I approach software estimationoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2021
Don’t mix refactorings with behavior changesoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2021
10X programmersoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2021
My take on the Single Responsibility Principleoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2021
A Docker “hello world” apporiginal ↗
30 Sept 2021
Docker concepts and terminologyoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2021
What to do about bloated Rails Active Record modelsoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2021
How I keep my Rails controllers organizedoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2021
I’m renaming Rails with Jason to Code with Jasonoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2021
How to have a productive programming dayoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2021
Understanding Factory Bot syntax by coding your own Factory Botoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2021
Close your browser tabsoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2021
How to generate a public SSH key from a private keyoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2021
How I organize my Rails appsoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2021
How and why to Dockerize your Rails app’s databaseoriginal ↗
22 May 2021
Rubyists to follow on Twitteroriginal ↗
10 May 2021
A VCR + WebMock “hello world” tutorialoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2021
Rails model spec tutorial, part twooriginal ↗
9 Apr 2021
Rails model spec tutorial, part oneoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2021
A beginner-friendly Rails model spec tutorialoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2021
Models are a convenient approximation, not a complete accountoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2021
How I code without service objectsoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2021
What is a Rails model?original ↗
22 Mar 2021
Testing implementation vs. behavior in Railsoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2021
My hybrid approach to Dockerizing Rails applicationsoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2021
The difference between Docker and Docker Composeoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2021
The two ways to Dockerize a Rails applicationoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2021
Developer success == individual * environmentoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2021
Active Record queries in views: when it’s bad, when it’s fineoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2021
Don’t wrap instance variables in attr_reader unless necessaryoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2021
Transient attributes in Factory Botoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2021
A systematic methodology for solving any programming problemoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2021
When to use Factory Bot’s traits versus nested factoriesoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2021
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