ActionMailer basics, Gmail, mail interceptor, and beyond — Everyone hates email. I’ll start with that, just to get out of the way the fact that I get it. Receiving emails sucks. Sending marketing emails seems absolutely useless. But email is still a necessary evil. Even in 2022, sending promotional emails is still one of the best way to…

Your ultimate guide to get started building a career. — It’s 2022. And let’s be honest, the life of a remote developer is looking better and better by the day. Bali just announced a new digital nomad visa and Portugal is basically paradise for digital workers. Being a surfer-by-day digital-nomad-by-night type of developer has never easier. Coding bootcamps are pretty…

Your guide to launching a product people will love — Before I became a product manager, I was a developer for seven years. In those seven years, I built some amazing products. I also built some truly, truly shitty products. And sometimes (especially as I was in the middle of working on them) the difference between the two wasn’t that easy to figure out. Regardless of the end result, you always start out…

Eager loading associations basics to optimize your next app — What is eager loading and why does it matter? Picture this: you’re done with your coding bootcamp. You’ve learned the basics of Object-Oriented Programming, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails. You are the master of CRUD. …

Understand the difference, the essential skills, and how to get hired — You’re staring down a LinkedIn job post about becoming a digital project manager and wondering: is this a PM job? Is there even a difference? What skills are needed for each job? What types of profiles are they looking for? More importantly, can I apply for either job without prior…

Everything you need to build a kick-ass portfolio site and get hired — If you’re a developer, the portfolio site is your calling card — like the bat signal for Batman. Often, it’s the first thing fresh developers do after finishing a bootcamp, or setting out on a freelance career. A good website makes pitching a project effortless — it can show a…

The ultimate guide to creating a portfolio site for fresh coders — A portfolio website is an essential tool for a programmer The site serves two purposes — first to highlight any projects a developer may have worked on in the past, second to show off the coding skill of the developer by designing and building the portfolio site itself. It’s a look inside the mind of the developer. A junior dev…

Your Ruby on Rails security cheatsheet — I’m going to be honest: Security was never high on my mind when I first started developing RoR applications. Rails was a way to prototype an MVP rapidly with all of its shortcuts and conventions — so much so that I never considered the measures I would need to take…