Bear & Giraffe

To ViewComponent or not to ViewComponent

Github is one of the largest Ruby on Rails applications, with a complex infrastructure…

Rails: Join on polymorphic association

I recently had to come up with a query that involved joining on a polymorphic association…

Look Good w. B&G

Over the weekend I was asked why I am “critical” of developers. As someone who is obsessed with being better, doing better, and…

Rails: I18n in mailer layout

Recently I had a simple task to do in a Ruby on Rails application. The style of the emails needed to show the…

Fuck You Money

There are two financial concepts I keep going back to over and over and over again: “Passive Income” and “Fuck You Money”. Passive…

B&G’s Mentorship Framework

“I wish we could hire more junior people. small project consulting makes that hard, for us at least. if we had a product or much bigger project teams, slotting a junior person…

B&G Gets Top Marks as a Developer on Clutch!

Stop Pending Steps From Failing Your CI Build

TDD is a big part of how I develop software. I use TDD to help me design the…

#DRAAAMS!

It is Friday evening, I just spent my entire afternoon on drama instead of being productive and working on billable stuff. Yet this time of drama is actually directly related to the work I do and why it really matters to me to be involved and help be part of a solution.