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Recently Read #2 - Ireland's dark past, an entrepreneur who pioneered wind energy and how browsers work

High-Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik, The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, Dangerous Visionary by Eddie O'Connor and Republic of Shame by Caelainn Hogan

William Kennedy

· 14 min read

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Good Citizen Refactoring

How to refactor without compromising your job

William Kennedy

· 4 min read

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Recently Read #1

Read for my brief thoughts on Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, How to Avoid Climate Disaster by Bill Gates, Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman and Deep Sea Diving and Foreign Going by Rose George

William Kennedy

· 14 min read

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Don't Let Developers Become The Bottleneck: Use Editmode

My Editmode review and why I believe it could be a good fit for teams

William Kennedy

· 5 min read

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How to Setup Storybook with Rails View Components in under 10 Minutes

Component driven design is one of the best things to come out of the ReactJS framework, and Storybook is an excellent way for a team to collaborate on new features while also conforming to a team style guide.

William Kennedy

· 6 min read

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Thoughts on Sprints

A few retrospective thoughts on the Sprint development cycle

William Kennedy

· 6 min read

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Building Cross-Platform Apps has Gotten Easier. Jumpstart is One Reason Why

Jumpstart iOS review. Some small thoughts on the impact it could have on your next app and beyond.

William Kennedy

· 7 min read

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Rails Tutorial: How to Build a Subscription Form that Integrates with Mailchimp Part 2-(controllers and workers)

Rails Tutorial: How to Build a Subscription Form that Integrates with Mailchimp Part 2 (controllers and workers)

William Kennedy

· 21 min read

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Rails Tutorial: How to Build a Subscription Form that Integrates with Mailchimp Part 1-(models and tests)

Rails Tutorial: How to Build a Subscription Form that Integrates with Mailchimp Part 1 (models and tests)

William Kennedy

· 15 min read

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Rails TIP: Use dom_id to Generate Ids in HTML

How to use dom_id in Rails to tidy up your views.

William Kennedy

· 2 min read

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How to Configure your Mac M1 for Ruby on Rails development?

This post describes how to configure your Apple Silicon Mac M1 to run Rails and all it's dependencies.

William Kennedy

· 3 min read

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Internet Fasting - A Better Way to Achieve Calm

How a day without internet lead to a happier me

William Kennedy

· 2 min read

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The Rebellion Against JavaScript SPA's has begun

Thoughts and tribulations on the next stage of the web.

William Kennedy

· 5 min read

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Help Me To End Child Marriage Through Education

For my birthday, I am donating money to charities focused on ending child marriage at the links down below. Please help me by either donating or sharing on social media. If you want to understand my motivation, read away but if you instead want to take action, scroll down to the bottom.

William Kennedy

· 10 min read

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Will Your Idea Get Stolen? Blunt Advice About NDAs

People worry about having their ideas stolen. I've signed more NDA's than I care to remember. Potential clients come to me with an idea for an app or website and then refuse to tell me anything unless I sign a piece of paper.

William Kennedy

· 3 min read

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Do you need someone to build you an app or website? Here's some advice:

Asking a Software Developer or a designer how long something is going to take is a hard question. Time spent on actually writing the code is not how long someone has spent thinking about it, starting it, restarting it or even procrastinating on it (and procrastination can be an important part of the building process).

William Kennedy

· 2 min read

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Why building a software company is hard

One of the hardest things you can do is start a software company with a tech-illiterate co-founder. Watch them use the software you built, and realize with horror that building software is...hard

William Kennedy

· 4 min read
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