I designed my card game around Heroku's database row limit before checking it was a real problem — it wasn't, and Postgres locking was the easy answer all along.

Two Ruby solutions to an Advent of Code puzzle, and how a 100x bigger problem space forced a rethink from arrays to a linked list.

Setting context before diving into detail is the difference between communicating and confusing, whoever in the business you're talking to.

Working from home two days a week saved my sanity with a small baby at home — my recommendations for not losing the privilege.

We all write terrible code sometimes — a production one-liner gated on rand(10), and why understanding beats blame.

Why I dropped simple_form once I needed custom renders, and the small form helper and partial I wrote instead.

Treating a personal project like my day job — backlog, milestones, realistic expectations — kept it alive well past the usual two weeks of enthusiasm.

Commenting on a friend's public code isn't trolling — when GitHub history is part of hiring, it's helping them get their next job.

A new job at the Treasury, then straight back to South London — 60 meters down the road from my last employer. Life is an adventure.

A shared story about being repeatedly passed over by black cabs, and why Uber, for all its flaws, made getting home fairer.