On Measuring Engineers
21 Jul 2021
What makes an effective engineer?
It’s common to hear an answer that prioritises technical competency. While this is understandable, I think it’s damaging to our industry and the humans that occupy its space.
There’s an unfortunate stereotype that...
Custom JS in Rails 6
28 Mar 2021
I had a JavaScript class that I wanted to make use of in my Rails view. Sounded like a 5 minute job, but I spent a lot of time figuring out what the right approach is. Here's what I ended up with and you can tell me if it's a good or bad idea.
Users...
Awk Notes
19 Jul 2019
The notes below are from my initial readings into Awk, and they demonstrate using it (and some other unix tools) to perform simple text processing. Full disclaimer, I'm still learning this stuff 🙂
Example 1: Tabulating Data
Below are some fruits...
Offline Development
28 Sep 2018
I was recently on a long haul flight from Manchester to San Francisco with no Wi-Fi. As you can imagine,
between regular snacks and naps, being off the grid for so long was quite the struggle. A few hours into the
flight, I decided to pop out my laptop...
Proxies in ECMAScript
31 Mar 2018
What are they?
Proxies give us greater control over what happens when we interact with objects. They wrap a target object and
expose some of the internal operations on it. This means we can customise what happens when we get or set a
property, create...
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