2025: Year in Review
A year that felt quiet at first, but ended up packed with travel, side projects, new gear, and a few memorable surprises. 🥰
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2024: Year in Review
New continent, new job, new hobbies. Same old journal entries. 📝
(Ab)using Rails 7.1’s #generates_token_for for List-Unsubscribe Headers
How I migrated Business ECT from Amazon SES to Postmark while adding List-Unsubscribe headers by (ab)using Rails 7.1’s #generates_token_for.
2023: Year in Review
A year of introspection and action: Building, running, reading, and reconnecting with the real world. 🌿
2022: Year in Review
Traveling, work, photography, books I read, and so much more. 🤩
What Did I Learn by Writing a Journal Every Day for Over 3 Years?
The answers will surprise you!
Long Live All the Nations
Thinking about the Slovenian anthem and national pride
Leaving Twitter
Maybe it’s time for me to leave Twitter?
2021: Year in Review
It’s weird to write this in the middle of a pandemic, but I somehow feel this was the best year yet. 🥰
2020: Year in Review
Let’s get this out of the way: 2020 was a weird year. Yet strangely fulfilling for me. 🤔️
Back Up Your Backups
Can your backups handle a single drive failure? What about two? Three? Four in a span of just over a month?
2019: Year in Review
I had a crazy year 🤪
Summer of Rereading
My favorite books that I think everyone should read
So you want to work remotely, huh?
Why would you start working remotely and how would you do it
Software Developers Are People Too
I gave a talk about things I like. And yes, I have a podcast too now.
Journaling
In order to further practice stoic philosophy I started journaling with Day One and Workflow.
Running Gear
I often get asked what I run with so why not blog about it
Garmin is the new Pebble
I found a replacement for Pebble Time and you won’t believe what it is
Crazy Weeks of March and April
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167 Days of Jaybird Support
How not to do your product support
In Quest of a Better Coffee
My coffee story - from Portland to Aeropress and eventually home espresso
Don’t Screw up When You SSH to Production
Terminal can help you with colors
How to Deploy All Day yet Deploy Nothing
Docker is not as easy as they would have you believe
My Experiment With Jake - EU Soylent
I wanted to try soylent for a while now. I did now and here’s what I think
Pebble Time & iSmoothRun FTW
I recently received my Pebble Time. I love it. Also recently I discovered iSmoothRun. I love that too. I’ll explain why you should too.
Neo4j for RubyC Hipsters
The first proper conference talk I did. An updated and improved version of the other Neo4j hipster talk. And some words on RubyC and Kiev.
A Brief Word About Thrift
What is Thrift and how did I use it with Twofishes.
A Decade of Event Photography
Exactly 10 years ago I went to my first ever concert as a photographer.
Neo4j WTF Is This Hipster Graph Thingy?
What is Neo4j and why should you use it.
Weaving a RUG
Why you should start your own user group
Simple Cache When Scraping With Ruby
Use VCR in your scraping development workflow.
Big1Team Free LinkedIn
You should delete them from your connections.
A Legitimate Society Member
I was a guest on the Apparatus podcast.
FooBar Rant
I hate FooBar examples. There, I’ve said it.
Include Files from Gem into Asset Pipeline
Sometimes Asset Pipeline doesn’t want to play with you.
Two-Factor Authentication FTW
You know you should use it!
Rails Routing and Namespaced Models
Namespaces can bite you but they’re still nice.
Get Rid of Dropbox Conflicted Copies
They can be such a pain in the ass.
Must Have Development Rails Gems
Can’t even develop straight without this pearls.