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every post since 2007, newest first

2023

• Oct 16 🪴 Starting a food co-op: Year 2 journal

2022

• Oct 9 🌱 Starting a food co-op: Year 1 journal

2021

• Jan 17 🆙 Upgrade PostgreSQL from 12 to 13 with Homebrew journal

2020

• Nov 21 ⚡ Notion + Super Blogging journal
• Nov 15 🐍 Data export, or die journal
• Nov 11 🚟 JSON is our standard gauge railway journal
• Nov 9 🧮 BigDecimal#round always, please journal
• Nov 8 🍦 Starting this off journal

2014

• Dec 5 pickaxe.club: Weekend 2 ↗ pickaxe
• Dec 4 Shipping Basecamp for iOS 2.0 ↗ 37signals
• Dec 2 An ecosystem, fragmented ↗ 37signals
• Nov 4 Essential new dad stuff
• Sep 9 Dynos are done
• Sep 8 Too many streams
• Jan 6 5x5 Lego Carcassone

2013

• Nov 23 Sync and edit files on two iPhones
• Aug 15 Keeping it in-house ↗ 37signals
• Jun 26 A Diverse Conference ↗ 37signals
• Jun 11 Intention revealing methods ↗ 37signals
• Apr 26 Current status ↗ 37signals
• Mar 25 What was your first job? ↗ 37signals
• Mar 5 It's not a meetup ↗ 37signals
• Feb 15 Drawing the native/web line in Basecamp for iPhone ↗ 37signals
• Feb 13 Why I loved building Basecamp for iPhone in RubyMotion ↗ 37signals
• Jan 9 Use Jekyll, SCSS, and CoffeeScript without plugins

2012

• Dec 31 Thanks, 2012 life
• Dec 3 Open Source Guilt & Passion ↗ 37signals
• Sep 28 Automating with convention: Introducing sub ↗ 37signals
• May 17 Three quick Rails console tips ↗ 37signals
• Apr 27 Code Spelunking in the all new Basecamp ↗ 37signals
• Apr 16 The On-Call Programmer ↗ 37signals
• Feb 12 All hands, battlestations! ↗ 37signals
• Jan 13 Kicking the tires: My trial month ↗ 37signals

2011

• Oct 21 Danger, Danger: High Voltage! Use Rails 3.1 for Static Sites ↗ thoughtbot
• Jul 26 Use Capybara on any HTML fragment or page ↗ thoughtbot
• Jun 8 Redis Pub/Sub…how does it work? ↗ thoughtbot
• Jan 13 Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org/ ↗ thoughtbot

2010

• Oct 6 Gem Sawyer, Modern Day Ruby Warrior ↗ thoughtbot
• Jun 18 Sailing down the Hudson with RVM ↗ thoughtbot
• Apr 18 IronRuby drops - make some noise!
• Mar 12 Redis: Data Cheeseburgers ↗ thoughtbot
• Feb 3 The Rails Module (in Rails 3)

2009

• Nov 10 Load Rails conditionally with Rack
• Oct 14 Gem Bundler is the Future
• Oct 9 On Gem Forking
• Aug 26 Internbot Chronicles #6: The end ↗ thoughtbot
• Aug 13 Stupid ruby tricks ↗ thoughtbot
• Jul 20 RailsCamp NE Adventures
• Jul 17 The Journey to Ruby 1.9 ↗ thoughtbot
• Jun 25 Internbot Chronicles #5: Training Reflections ↗ thoughtbot
• May 29 Internbot Chronicles #4: CI & Test Metrics ↗ thoughtbot
• May 1 Git Started with Git git
• Apr 26 BarCamp Boston 4 Roundup internet
• Apr 24 Internbot Chronicles #3 ↗ thoughtbot
• Mar 30 Internbot Chronicles #2 ↗ thoughtbot
• Mar 13 Internbot Chronicles #1 ↗ thoughtbot
• Jan 7 Checkout tracked remote branch with Git git

2008

• Dec 11 If you only could follow 10 people on Twitter... internet
• Dec 5 Open Source Collaboration with Git and GitHub git
• Dec 1 GitHub Rebase #6 git
• Nov 17 GitHub Rebase #4 git
• Nov 9 GitHub Rebase #3 git
• Nov 3 GitHub Rebase #2 git
• Oct 26 GitHub Rebase #1 git
• Oct 20 Pumpkin Carving 2008 git
• Oct 19 Where do you get Ruby news from? ruby
• Oct 13 Calculating Age in Rails
• Sep 22 Loading custom code in Rails ruby
• Sep 18 Switching to Rails ruby
• May 23 Raytracers, snowflakes, and Pac-Man, oh my! code
• Mar 27 Rock Band Rocks. gaming
• Mar 25 Why I love Twitter internet
• Mar 20 Pimping the Windows Command Line windows
• Mar 18 Defraggle Rock windows
• Mar 16 Turning off the Firehose internet
• Mar 13 5 Things That Video Games Do That Really Make Me Angry gaming
• Mar 9 Flash and WPF: A pain in the ass. windows

2007

• Nov 27 I’m afraid of low level programming. code
• Oct 31 Digg Labs: Flash doesn’t suck all the time. internet
• Oct 29 Why every programmer should play NetHack gaming