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Written content to help you along your web development journey, without forgetting to have some fun along the way.

Use Slack For Rails Error Notification

Post a message to one of your Slack channels when your Rails app encounters a 500 error.

Dec 22, 2015

My Family Uses Slack To Stay In Touch

Slack is built for work teams. My family has adopted it to communicate when we're not all together.

Dec 15, 2015

The 2 Paychecks Per Month Automatic Savings Plan

If you are paid bi-weekly this is a great way to put some extra cash in your pocket without doing much.

Dec 09, 2015

Download a Collection of Images from URLs using Ruby

A quick method and loop to download a collection of images with Ruby.

Dec 07, 2015

Find Your Purpose And Needs Through Wants

This is a quick exercise to help identify your purpose and needs in life by looking at your wants.

Dec 01, 2015

Introducing Continuous Abstraction

Abstract core components of related challenges to make solving future challenges easier and faster.

Nov 24, 2015

Your Audience Doesn't Care About You, And That's Awesome

It can be nerve-wracking to perform in front of people. But your audience doesn't notice or care how nervous you are, so why worry about it?

Aug 21, 2015

Your Employees Aren't Working 40 Hours Per Week

The traditional work week is highly inefficient. If we really want 40 hours, let's get 40 hours of actual work done.

Aug 04, 2015

Remove HTML Extension And Trailing Slash In Nginx Config

When you have a static site, sometimes you want to get rid of the HTML extensions and those pesky trailing slashes. Here's how I've done it.

Jul 22, 2015

How Do I Do It All?

Having trouble moving all your projects and life tasks forward? Here are some tricks I use to organize my life and keep those projects moving.

Jul 06, 2015