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Matthew • April 13, 2022
Rails is filled with small cool features that make life better once you know about them. One that we all know about but might not use that often is validation contexts.
Matthew • March 9, 2022
I've always found setting up email for a Rails app to be kind of a pain. You need to update a lot of files, you need to figure out how to look at sent emails, and you need to make sure you don't end up sending test emails to the world! This article describes what's become my default strategy for configuring email in Rails so that it's easy to work with email!
Matthew • April 26, 2021
A job seeker asked me the other day if I felt it was okay to leave a new job after a week or two.
Matthew • April 20, 2021
As I start thought-leadering publicly and consider the subjects on which I might opine, I keep coming back to the phrase "it depends." By which I mean, "context matters."
Matthew • March 14, 2021
The difficult first blog post in which I say hello.