Jardo.dev: Blog

This is (mostly) parody This started as a parody of thoughtbot's recent article on the same subject, but grew from there.

Snow was falling hard across the arctic hillside.

In July, I wrote a short tutorial called Code Reloading for Rack Apps.

I was browsing Reddit yesterday (big mistake) and stumbled across a post asking how many people are doing test-driven development in their work.

On the ten year anniversary of my first RailsConf, I had the privilege to speak at RailsConf 2024 alongside two other Normans: my little brother, Alistair, and friend, Cody.

I woke up this morning to the news that the CEO of GitHub was stepping down.

Mastodon is a platform where you get out what you put in.

Open Graph images are the images that you see when you share a page on social media.

I just made the same mistake I always make; I named a file containing some Rake tasks with the wrong file extension, .rb instead of .rake.

The other day, I posted about an article title Use Your Type System.

I work almost exclusively on Ruby on Rails applications.

Yesterday, Marco Roth and I committed a variety of Ruby programming felonies and are now fugitives from the Rubocops.

In 2022, I spoke at SolidusConf 7 on how to make the most of the Solidus platform (or fail, by doing the opposite of my suggestions.)

In 2020, I had the pleasure of speaking at the first digital version of SolidusConf.

A while back, I picked up a copy of JitterTed’s TDD Game.

The topic of system tests (a.k.a. end-to-end tests or feature tests) is making the rounds right now, and I'm a bit confused by it.

The first team I joined in the tech industry was not doing what I understood modern software development to be.

It was only a matter of time before the disease that gets everyone in my demographic got me too.

I just learned (through this article) that Pivotal Tracker is shutting down for everyone except enterprise customers.

There are infinitely many ways to evaluate the design of software.