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Thinker's Playground

Personal blog exploring how politics, media, technology, and culture influence individual behaviour and belief

Using JSONB columns to create pseudo-attributes in Rails

March 31, 2024 / 7 minute read

How to play in a park with a toddler

How to play with a child without stifling their growth
January 29, 2024 / 3 minute read

REST for Ruby on Rails Engineers

Challenging some misconceptions about REST in the Rails community.
January 5, 2024 / 1 minute read

Avoiding train-wrecks in ActiveRecord

July 29, 2023 / 5 minute read

Avoid using SecureRandom when testing your Ruby code

June 23, 2023 / 3 minute read

Remembering Ray Peat

A short memorial to the late Ray Peat
December 5, 2022 / 3 minute read

Building a REST API in Ruby on Rails 3

A short video screencast demonstrating how easy it is to create a RESTful API in Ruby on Rails 3
August 12, 2020 / 1 minute read

A naming convention for ActionMailer emails

A Ruby on Rails email naming convention for clear and easy communication of purpose
July 10, 2020 / 4 minute read

Trying to define the indefinable

Species arguments can't save Intelligent Design
June 14, 2020 / 7 minute read

Grab data from your production database using ActionMailer

May 27, 2020 / 2 minute read