Building an Express/Node.js App with Angular 2 and the Twitter API

Welcome to my first technical blog post during my Cyrus Innovation Apprenticeship!

When deciding what to focus on for my first explanation of a technical topic, I determined that I wanted to…

Nil and Presence in Ruby on Rails

One of the things I love about Ruby is nil. It can represent nothing and, since every expression in…

Declarative Programming in Ruby

I’ve been programming in Ruby for almost two years now, and sometimes I forget how hard it was for me to wrap my head around the Ruby approach to solving problems. Finally, Tyler Mcginnis has given me the vocabulary to describe the paradigm shift I experienced — Imperative…

Unit Testing with Jasmine: An Introduction

In this post I’ll discuss getting started with unit testing with Jasmine, including how to set up tests for an Angular 2 application. I’ll be using a sample app — an Express app that uses Angular 2 for the client-side code and interacts with the Twitter…

Why I Switched from Sublime to Atom

A programmer’s text editor is a very personal choice. I will always look back fondly on the time Sublime Text and I spent together, but eventually we grew apart. Now there’s a new text editor in my life, and I couldn’t be happier.

An Ode to Ruby DCamp

— a place of “knowledge, connection, and compassion” —

I’ve been meaning to write this post for 35 days. As I drove out of Prince William National Forest in Virginia on Sunday October 9th, the day Ruby DCamp ended, I began trying to formulate the ways I could…