Managed by Robots

At work my day job has typically been a Product Team individual contributor. However, building developer tools and automation within our organization has always been a side project of mine. Seeing time be wasted repeatedly on a manual task that could be automated just gets under my skin and forces me to do something to scratch that itch. This post continues down the path set forward by my previous post describing this site.

October 29, 2020 Read
Reborn in Hugo

It’s been a while since I did much blogging and worked on this site. However, this fall I got a bit of inspiration, so I figured I’d blow off the dust and try it again. For me, writing takes real effort. I have to turn off other distractions and focus. Instead, like usual when I work on my site, I procrastinate it a bit by working on the underlying technical aspects, less on the content.

October 23, 2020 Read
Rails Environment VS Deploy Environment

When the same verbiage is used in multiple contexts, it can be uber confusing for new people. On my team, I recall over the years that the majority of people getting started with us get caught up briefly on the difference between the Rails Environments concept, vs our concept of deploying to multiple environments (like dev, staging, prod, etc). For people brand new to the industry, the idea of multiple deployment environments may be the new part.

May 9, 2019 Read
Jsx vs Js

For some reason, our communities as a whole often times can get heavily opinionated over certain subjects. Sometimes, this can turn into huge internet flame wars, especially it seems when there is relatively less quantifiable information to argue about, like tabs vs spaces or brackets on same line vs next. Sometimes though, it can lead to strong thoughtful debates where both sides have to do research, and you end up learning about both sides in the process.

October 17, 2017 Read
Microsoft SQL Server Linux Docker Errors

Microsoft SQL Server in a linux based container…WHAAAAA? Thats rights. This may be old news for some, but Microsoft released a Docker image that allows you to run a MSSQL in a docker on your mac (or linux based) computer. Probably small news for most people, but for our team it was kind of awesome. Background My team’s current project has been to create a new Rails based application on top of an existing .

October 10, 2017 Read
Linking to local images in Gatsby frontmatter

Being stuck on an issue in a technology or concept you are brand new to can be paralyzing. You hardly know enough to figure out how to google the issue. Even if you do have a good search, the answer could be sitting right in front of your face, and often times you don’t even know it. If it’s not a critical blocking issue, you may try to push it off till later and progress with your work.

October 8, 2017 Read