Artist’s impression of two neutron stars merging and exploding as a kilonova edited to have the Rails and TailwindCSS logos overlaid on the neutron stars. Original image University of Warwick/Mark Garlick

March 15th, 2021

Adding TailwindCSS To A New Rails App

A quick run-through of my experience integrating TailwindCSS 2 into a new Rails 6.1 app and the minor tweaks I made to pull it off.

February 23rd, 2021

Engineer's Guide To Windows: Ruby on Rails

The third post in a series on setting up a new Windows 10 machine for software engineers/developers. Everything you need to work on a Rails app

February 8th, 2021

Engineer's Guide To Windows: WSL

The second post in a series on setting up a new Windows 10 machine for software engineers/developers. Time to install WSL and setup a Linux distro 😎

February 1st, 2021

Instance Doubles: Rspec Anti-Pattern?

I've struggled with writing good tests, but I think that a rule to follow is better tests come from leaning into setting up data and not avoiding the database

Windows 10 desktop computer booting up. Photo by Johny vino on Unsplash.

January 18th, 2021

Engineer's Guide To Windows: Start Fresh

The first post in a series on setting up a new Windows 10 machine for software engineers/developers. Focusing on getting a clean slate to build on!