RSpec has options that will help you see your specs more clearly

All your blocks should have whitespace…

It’s my software stack, with complexity!

The testing cycle goes from red to green to red to green

I noticed that I didn’t have a copy of the Boring Software Manifesto on my own site, so here’s the original version from 2007 (yikes!) and a video version from 2013.

These knives all have handles

I haven’t written about my writing setup, tools, things like that in a while, and I’ve got some show and tell.

This post is about a very small Rails design decision. A Rails design decision that I’ve made over and over without thinking about it. You probably have, too. And then a weird test failure made me think about it. And then it made me overthink it.

A couple of quick things.

After coming back from RailsConf, I have some tips about speaking at conferences. Which isn’t really a comment on the speakers I saw — I think, overall, the quality of the speakers has improved noticeably over the years — but more along the the lines of tips for people getting started.