June 5, 2017

Tilex Progress

Tilex, our Phoenix port of Today I Learned, is coming really well. After a personal hiatus for RailsConf prep, I’m back full-swing. My coworkers have really been bringing quality commits as well, and I feel we are very close to a successful port.

May 4, 2017

Binary to Decimal Conversion in Ruby

This week I wrote an algorithm in Ruby to convert binary numbers into decimal numbers. Here’s the problem description, from Exercism:

“Convert a binary number, represented as a string (e.g. ‘101010’), to its decimal equivalent using first principles. Implement binary to decimal conversion. Given a binary input string, your program should produce a decimal output. The program should handle invalid inputs.”

February 11, 2017

You Should Blog

I created this blog to reflect on my code and development as a programmer. In that spirit, I’d like to make a pitch to anybody reading: you should blog.

January 7, 2017

Reset an Ecto Heroku Postgres Database

We introduced some breaking database changes to our Phoenix port of Today I Learned on Friday; today I deployed them to staging. Resetting an Ecto Heroku database, with new seed data, turned out to be a little tricky, and I wanted to document what I learned.

December 24, 2016

My Annual Review 2016

Here’s my annual professional review covering 2016.

December 17, 2016

Vim Nonrecursive Mappings

My first PR to a new Vim plugin was merged this week, check it out, adding non-recursive Vim mappings to vim-termbux.

November 29, 2016

Porting TIL from Rails to Phoenix: Initial Commits

Last week, I started a new project: porting Today I Learned from Ruby on Rails to Phoenix (Elixir).

September 11, 2016

Hamming Distance in Elixir

Today I solved the Exercism Hamming Distance problem in Elixir. Here’s my solution.

August 26, 2016

Exercism's Sum of Multiples in Elixir

Today I solved Exercism’s Sum of Multiples problem in Elixir. In this post, I’ll show my work solving this problem.

July 31, 2016

Run Length Encoding in Elixir

I’ve been working through the Elixir challenges on Exercism.io. Yesterday’s assignment was to implement a Run Length encoder and decoder in Elixir. Here’s my implementation.