State of the 10x Programmer in 2018

tl;dr: A 10x programmer does not necessarily know one language/framework ten times as well. More likely she uses 10 programming tools just as well as others who master only one. Look up programmer on Indeed and you'll immediately see how fragmented CS jobs are. It's the nature of…

A NetHack4-Server Docker Image

If you've ever played NetHack, the beloved roguelike, then you'll be very familiar with the above image. It's the first message you receive when beginning a game and, due to the permadeath nature of roguelikes, you're likely to begin several games in a single session of nethack. Out of the…

Introducing ZID - Zero Inventory Delete

ZID is my first foray into Shopify app development. I used the official Shopify Rails engine to get up and running quickly. After toying with a few ideas, I settled on making an app to find and delete products with 0 inventory. The use case is for vendors with large…

Introducing React Rails Auth

I chose to learn React due to both the hype and the fact that we had begun to code React Native at work. It's been a mostly positive experience with some exceptions here and there. I still don't see much of a point in it in small to midsize projects,…

Introducing Nginx Proxy Zero

Recently, I've been drawing a lot of inspiration from nginx-proxy. To summarize, nginx-proxy combines docker event-based nginx config generation with automatic nginx reloading. This allows you to define a VIRTUAL_HOST env variable on any container and have it added to the reverse proxy configuration in real time with no…