The ramblings of a software engineer

I am a Principal Engineer at Articulate, and I’ve been spending a lot of time refining how I think about software engineering in practice. One topic that is important to me right now is the concept of...

I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) Hypermobility, also known as “type 3”. Let me be perfectly honest, its scary as shit to me. I look as normal as everyone else on the outside, I attempt to keep up w...

As you may or may not know, my day job is working for an online advertising company. The specific project I work on involves consuming XML formatted search feeds. We currently parse around 8,000 of th...

Using the MySQL2 gem? Getting the error ‘server has gone away’? Then read on my friend! After spending WAY too much time trying to find an answer for the correct fix for the error ActiveRecord::Statem...