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Engineering for Good: Living Clio’s Values in the Time of COVID-19

My personal journey helping to deliver an impactful new project at Clio

5 min readJun 23, 2020

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Engineering for Good: Living Clio’s Values in the Time of COVID-19

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Clio Labs

Upgrading Rails: Tracking down deprecated callbacks in Rails 5.0

A quick tip for making it easier to trace the source of callbacks from within Rails.

4 min readApr 6, 2020

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Upgrading Rails: Tracking down deprecated callbacks in Rails 5.0

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Alex Taylor
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Clio Labs

Herding Files — and goats — with git

Make sure you don’t lose your git history when renaming and refactoring!

4 min readFeb 27, 2020

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Herding Files — and goats — with git

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Alex Taylor
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Ruby Inside

A Deep Dive into Routing and Controller Dispatch in Rails

Let’s explore how routing works under the hood in Rails. How does a web request make it all the way to your Rails controller?

8 min readMar 17, 2019

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A Deep Dive into Routing and Controller Dispatch in Rails

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Ruby Inside

A Weird and Wonderful Trip through Ruby’s Standard Library

I found some pretty weird and wonderful things in Ruby’s standard library, and I wanted to share some of my favourites.

5 min readDec 2, 2018

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A Weird and Wonderful Trip through Ruby’s Standard Library

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Alex Taylor

Learn Haskell, Write Better Ruby

8 min readJun 25, 2018

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Learn Haskell, Write Better Ruby

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Alex Taylor
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Ruby Inside

Focused `puts` debugging with STDERR

I’m a big fan of puts debugging when I’m trying to reproduce a particularly tricky bug, or I want to quickly get a sense of the code path…

2 min readMar 23, 2018

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Focused `puts` debugging with STDERR

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Why builtonrails.com isn’t built on Rails

How I took a Minimum Viable Product approach to launching my side project

4 min readJan 30, 2018

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Why builtonrails.com isn’t built on Rails

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Alex Taylor
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Ruby Inside

Design Patterns in Ruby: Strategy Pattern

Design patterns can be powerful conceptual models for thinking about how to solve problems in software development. Popularized in the ’90s…

4 min readJan 3, 2018

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Design Patterns in Ruby: Strategy Pattern

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Alex Taylor

Tips for Finding Focus

Focusing on a single task is quickly becoming a lost art. The temptation to always be multi-tasking, keeping up with notifications and…

4 min readAug 25, 2017

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Tips for Finding Focus

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Alex Taylor

Alex Taylor

Alex Taylor is a Staff Software Developer at Clio. He has a passion for Ruby, loves tea, and rides his bike (almost) everywhere.

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