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Rails Tutorial: How to Build a Subscription Form that Integrates with Mailchimp Part 1 (models and tests)
William Kennedy
How to use dom_id in Rails to tidy up your views.
This post describes how to configure your Apple Silicon Mac M1 to run Rails and all it's dependencies.
How a day without internet lead to a happier me
Thoughts and tribulations on the next stage of the web.
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.
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.
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).
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
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