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At a previous job where I did 50/50 front-end/back-end work, we had to be HIPAA compliant.

Philip Glass is a well-known late-20th century American composer and pianist.

It’s Thursday.

After years of working on OccamsRecord and wondering if and how any of it could be ported to Rails/ActiveRecord, I finally made the first step: Uberloader.

This post is really just a quick reminder for myself any time I need to use ActiveRecord::Associations::Preloader to customize the scope of a preload.

Recently I was working on a project involving rubyzip.

Null references are sometimes called programming’s “billion dollar mistake”, due to the countless hours spent hunting down and fixing null-related bugs.

Alpha Male Missing functionality Lots of bugs Unstable, may crash unexpectedly Not suitable for general use Beta Male Feature complete Still kinda buggy Useful as a preview Release Candidate Male Minor bugs Open to feedback and improvements Has had extens…

I like to pitch OccamsRecord as “the power tools ActiveRecord forgot”.

KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!).