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Recently, I’ve been reflecting on the past few years of my career, and how quickly things have changed.

It’s been 10 years since my last post.

Pry is an interactive console, like IRB, which can be used to pause execution and inspect the current scope in your Rails web requests or tests.

Link: Communication: how to be a better software developer I haven’t written a Medium post for a while, but felt like Medium was a better place for this post to appear.

Over recent years we’ve seen the software community debate the usefulness of comments (this article being an example), and rightly so.

Git is such a complex tool that I often feel as if I’m barely using 10% of it’s complete functionality.

In the second part of this post on rescuing web applications, I’ll go through some techniques for refactoring the codebase of an existing project.

Most programmers have the best of intentions.

Back in 2011 I created the Vdebug plugin for Vim, which provides a visual debugger interface for debuggers that support the DBGP protocol, the main one being Xdebug for PHP.

Something I commonly want to do is evaluate a bit of code and insert the result into my Vim window.