I'm not saying we should all use Gerrit, but I am saying that using Gerrit early in my career made me a much better programmer.

Pivotal Tracker is shutting down. It might not have been perfect, but I'll still miss it.

Object-oriented programmers have a solution to null propagation, the null object pattern, but is it a good fit for Ruby and other dynamic languages?

Have you ever seen a test in Ruby (or any dynamic language) that tested the type of a method? I’ve always hated those tests, but never really explored why.

Service objects, a popular design pattern in the Ruby on Rails community, are analogous to higher-order functions, and we can demonstrate that more clearly by refactoring one into a Proc without changing its API.

I recently simplified the workflow where I'm using git as my test-runner, essentially doing TCR without the R.

Out of the box, phlex-rails currently doesn't support parameterized layouts. I found a quick way to hack support in.

Kevin Newton's explanations of how YARV works alerted me to a couple of edge cases in Ruby that I'd never thought about.

I instructed ChatGPT to criticize itself and include a Ghostbusters reference for good measure.

RubyConf Mini is over and my talk went well. Once the videos are posted, I'll do a quick write up about the talk, but for now here are the slides.

What is Agile software development? How do we do it? In my experience, there are far more organizations following rigid software development frameworks than there are who are meaningfully Agile.

I rebuilt my dotfiles and decided to write some fiction about it.

I used test && commit || revert to do the first 5 days of this year's Advent of Code. Here's what I learned along the way.

I tried it and it seems fine.

Ruby's Hash class supports default values, but there's an edge case where using this feature produces some unexpected results. Python developers should know what I'm talking about.

Alistair, Amy and I were in Nashville for RubyConf to hear about what's next for the Ruby community.

The default values of Ruby's hashes can be made completely dynamic. Let's look at some dogs (to understand how we can use this feature.)

Exposing yourself to more code is one of the most important things you can do to improve your development skills.

I've just finished Ousterhout's book, A Philosophy of Software Design and want to share what I think Rubyists can learn from it.