My work keeps getting thrown out. Should I look for a new job?

Who doesn’t want more people paying attention to their projects? You want more readers, more users, more followers.

The instinct often is: Be bigger. Be bolder. Be louder. Be hustle-yer?

Perhaps there's another way.

Ever need a simple way to retry a block of code in ruby? Maybe you need a maximum number of retries? Exponential backoff? Different handling for different exceptions?

How can we avoid faltering in our own creative endeavors?

Ever struggle with publishing that blog post or open source idea you have sitting around? But it feels too small? Too insignificant?

A Redis mutex in Ruby and Lua

Michaela Watkins advice on getting unstuck.

A Redis ring buffer in Ruby and Lua

If you're using a development framework to interact with data (Rails, Django, Express, whatever), you've most likely had to make smart choices on how cascading deletes work in your system. & often in large systems, you're forced to make a compromise.