Recently I was tasked with upgrading a project from Rails 5.2.1 to 6.0.0rc1 and Ruby 2.5.3 to 2.6.3. In past encounters of upgrading Rails apps I've always run into issues upgrading gems or resolving version conflicts but this time things ran (pretty…
It's been about a year since I delved into the world of full-time remote working and it's been a good ass year too. There have been a number of challenges to overcome and a few differences to my day-to-day working life, but I think it's made me more productive. The…
So, for the last year or so I've been working on a Car Forum using the forum software Discourse (seriously go check it out, it's an awesome product). Torquative came from a marriage of the words torque (power of a vehicle) and talkative. I'm a real car nut, so combining…
First post of 2016, keeping it short and sweet. Recently I published my first side project, Sdf Generator. It came to life after I was thinking how when most people seem to button bash their keyboard (for whatever reason) the letters 'sdf' seem to appear almost all the time. I…
I said I was going to try and blog at least once a month (or something like that). I've been slacking, as I sit here on the train home I started thinking about work and how far i've come in the past two years. In December 2012 I started work…