Sharing code ideas, successes, and defeats.
I logged into Twitter today. I wanted to download the archive of my data. In doing so, I couldn’t help but be taken back to the days when I was an active user, from Jan 2011 to October 2022. I didn’t tweet much, but over the years, I had come to use Twitter as an outlet for my frustrations, cynicism, takes about working in–or generally interacting with–tech. Where this blog was the long-form,…
For the past year, my team has been working on a project that exposes a GraphQL API, and, since we’ve been doing things quite differently than the rest of the company, I figured some of our ideas might be worth sharing. We’ve been using the graphql-ruby gem, and even though it doesn’t lend itself well to unit testing, we’ve insisted on writing unit tests. What’s more,…
A few months ago, I found myself trying to explain type variance to a coworker whose experience is mainly Ruby. Dynamically typed languages such as Ruby don’t ask the developers to specify the type variance. I found that while they develop an instinct of what usages are acceptable and which aren’t, these developers don’t codify it in the same way developers in statically typed…
In this third and final post, we work through a practical example of API design, to see how to remove the affordance for errors.
In this second post of three, I show how other APIs and languages have avoided some of the problems shown in the first post.
In this first posts of three, I highlight a few examples of affordance for errors in common APIs.
Following my Rant on ActiveSupport::Concern, I've been asked how to refactor the code to make it stop using it, or write new code without it. I thought I'd share the patterns that have worked for me so far.
When I started writing, I picked Medium. I didn’t want to setup a blog, have choose a template or style, or figure out how to use an analytics platform. I just wanted to write. When writing my Revoking the (Parentheses) Privilege post, it became apparent that Medium failed me. It has no support for syntax highlighting, requiring me to use screenshots from Carbon . I’m considering a…
A post in which I try to explain Ruby's Object Model: Objects, Classes, Singleton Classes, Modules...
Not using parentheses on method calls (in Ruby) is unsafe and unpredictable. Use parentheses.
Most usages of ActiveSupport::Concern are unnecessary. Here's why.
Earlier this year, I accidentally uncovered a flaw in many providers using git shell, because they mistake Authentication for Identification.