You should still bother to learn to actually program
AI has changed software engineering. Many are wondering if they should bother to learn to actually program or if they can just use AI to program. Yes, you should still bother to actually learn...
Jeff Morhous
Jeff is a senior software engineer building with AI and writing about it.
Latest posts
Redefining Career Specialization
Just becoming the best programmer is too hard. Becoming the best ruby programmer is hard, but not as hard. Becoming the best Ruby on Rails backend developer is a little easier...
Software Engineers Need a Brag Doc
A brag doc is a place where you keep track of (and ideally show off) the work you're proud of. You can call it what you...
Block Ads for Your Entire Home Network with a Raspberry Pi
Run a DNS sinkhole on a Raspberry Pi to block ads, including the Raspberry Pi 5 (updated for 2024!)...
Eloquent Ruby In 10 Minutes
Over the last few month's I've been diving much deeper into Ruby, going through the famous Eloquent Ruby book...
How to Make a belongs_to Relationship in Rails
ActiveRecord makes it really easy to tie models in a Rails app to...
How to Fix Tailwind CSS Not Loading in Rails 7
Have you started a rails app and your page has no styling even though you're using Tailwind classes...
Thoughts on A Philosophy of Software Design
I recently read “A Philosophy of Software Design”, a brief but dense book of opinions on designing software well...
Eliminating Code Complexity by Finding Double Negatives
Making code easier to maintain by writing it like we would in english...
How I’m Learning Faster as a Software Engineer
What I've been up to, and how I'm growing as a software engineer...