I noticed a pattern when I join a new company. I'm being onboarded, someone is explaining their systems to me, and they make a joke about how it's un...
This is a re-post of an article I wrote for my company's blog. Here's a story of how we improved our CI run times in one of our core Ruby services by...
IDs. We need them to reference entities uniquely. But not all kinds of IDs are equal. Features Some IDs are the main identifier (the primary key) of ...
I had a use case some time ago where base64 saved my ass, and I thought I'd write a short refresher for myself on what it can do, and how it can be a...
When we think about "databases", we probably think about SQL stores (MySQL, Postgres), NoSQL stores (MongoDB, Cassandra), and maybe some vendor-speci...
What's an "/open" page? An /open page is a page where a startup or product shares their me...
Writing better addresses for the Web
