It's been a while since I've written. Almost exactly a year, to be precise. I've missed writing as a creative medium, and as a way to share updates and research. I hope to share more with you all - friends, family, and likeminded individuals on the internet - going forward!

From August 7 to 28 (2021), I biked 4,447km from Toronto to Vancouver to raise money for The Canadian Cancer Society and The Jonny Kellock Foundation. The journey was in memory of all Canadian cancer victims, like my dear friend Jonny Kellock. This article includes: Ride itinerary (with links

This article contains a list of the top 50 YC software startups (sourced from the October 2019 YC Top Companies page). It also contains aggregated statistics for valuations and back-end programming languages used. Values in this article are sourced, but I cannot guarantee their accuracy. Find me on Twitter @charlieinthe6.

I recently started a podcast with my friend Tom Zaragoza called the DEVpreneur. It's a podcast about working on a software / SaaS business as a software developer. Below I'll explain both how and why you should host your own podcast, as well as potential drawbacks of doing so. Table of

This article covers how to use ngrok to easily share a public URL that connects to your local web server (which may be running a website or application that you are developing). This is a great way to test and develop webhook endpoints, or share web applications that are under

You're here because your rails app is slow, and you either suspect or discovered it has n+1 queries causing performance issues. I've been there. This article discusses what causes n+1 queries. It also covers 3 tips specific to rails apps for: How you can identify n+1 queries

This article contains boilerplate code demonstrating how multithreaded requests can be made in ruby; ruby makes it easy to make multiple API requests at the same time!Today, while putting finishing touches on a fin-tech MVP I'm building, I realized I needed to hit an external API twice before loading

Today, while putting the final touches on an appointment scheduling engine, I noticed some odd behaviour in my tests. I discovered that the failing tests were related time zones, and more specifically, to crossing daylight savings time boundaries. This brief article will demonstrate how to easily show time (in the

1. Byebug problem:Recently while debugging a rails test with a byebug command, I noticed byebug had fired twice: [39, 48] in /Users/.../text.rb [39, 48] in /Users/.../text.rb 39: [:from, :country] 40: end 41: 42: def post_initialize 43: byebug => 44: self.from ||= self.class.const_