Full Stack Developer and Senior Engineering Manager using Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript

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I'm a software engineering team lead writing about development practices, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript and other coding things.

Learning French

Published on Saturday 8 April 2023.

I travel to French regularly, and now I work for a French company, so it's time to learn French properly.
Common Table Expressions in Ruby on Rails

Published on Sunday 19 March 2023.

How we can use Common Table Expressions in Rails 7.0 and below and how that will change in Rails 7.1.
Begin; Return; Shenanigans

Published on Monday 19 December 2022.

When using Ruby's begin block to memoize the result of an operation beware mixing it with return statements. Here's why.
Getting Started With Code Reviews

Published on Wednesday 7 December 2022.

As a junior developer, starting out with code reviews can be intimidating — here are a few ideas that I hope can get you started.
From WordPress to Rails

Published on Saturday 5 November 2022.

Why I rebuilt my blog, moving from WordPress to Rails and going to a static website, rather than one driven by a database.
New Job, New Programming Language

Published on Friday 1 November 2019.

I’ve used PHP as my language of choice for ten years but in July I started a job using Ruby. Here I share some tips on how to get the most out of a language change.
Webpack and WordPress 💙

Published on Sunday 27 January 2019.

How I use Webpack in my WordPress projects, complete with a boilerplate theme to get you up and running.