I was recently tasked with upgrading our Ruby on Rails application at work: my goal was to move two major versions up, with a middle step on a minor version (and a server OS upgrade that was not even planned!). This was an incredible experience and I learned a lot from it. Here are some … Continue reading 6 Lessons learned from upgrading a Rails app
I recently committed an API key to a repository and even worse, I pushed to GitHub before I realized my mistake... 😦 Removing the key from the code base wouldn't completely solve my problem since a commit diff would still display my secret key. The solution was to remove that commit from history. Removing commit … Continue reading Remove a commit from history in Git – local and remote
This past week marked my first anniversary as a full-time software developer. I thought it would be important to stop and reflect on these last 12 months so this is my "Year 1 retro". You can read more about my background in the 'About' page but here's the TL;DR: I am a self-taught software developer. … Continue reading One year as a software developer
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