Archive - Naming Things

Strings are a leaky abstraction for HTML

Hello dear subscriber,

Apr 9 •

May 2023

Little factories

You’ve probably used Rails fixtures or factory_bot to set up an object for testing purposes.

May 5, 2023 •

January 2023

Miscellaneous updates

Hey everyone, it’s been a while since I wrote anything here, so here’s a quick update on a few things I’ve got going on:

Jan 24, 2023 •

December 2022

In memory of Chris Seaton

I could hardly breathe when I read Chris Seaton’s final tweets last Saturday.

Dec 10, 2022 •

November 2022

Mixing HTML attributes in Ruby

Hey 👋 It’s been a minute since we did one of these Naming Things episodes but I’m trying to get back into it again.

Nov 3, 2022 •

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Kasper Timm Hansen

1:41:50

October 2022

September 2022

Ruby is a beautiful language for writing views

A couple of months ago, I was made redundant from my job at Shopify.

Sep 21, 2022 •

July 2022

Acidic Job awaited steps

Joel and Stephen work on a feature in Acidic Job that lets you configure certain steps to await other steps.

Jul 17, 2022 •

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Stephen Margheim

1:43:37

Joel and Kasper start building a group event scheduling app from rails new.

Jul 10, 2022 •

and

Kasper Timm Hansen

53:14

June 2022

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