Albert’s Programming Tips

My 100 Day Coding Challenge

Practice makes perfect

Some friends and I started a club recently with the goal of helping students understand the process of looking for a software engineering job. We’ve been meeting for over a month now studying interview questions…

8 months of Software Engineering in San Francisco

For all of you who read about my first month at my…

Journal — Look both ways before you code

My accomplishment of the day was realizing that a feature that I’d been scoped to work on for 1 week to build was ALREADY BUILT! Here’s a summary of how this played out.

My first month at Samsara

Hi! I’m Albert, and I’m a software engineer living and working in San…

Ruby on Rails — What is counter_cache ?

Recently, I wanted to verify something in the Magoosh code base:

do we still increment users.answers_count ?

I did a cmd-shift-f in my editor and looked for instances of a .answers_count code snippet and…