Charlie's Blog

How to create an instant, secure URL to your localhost server / application through any NAT or firewall. Great for sharing web applications and testing webhook functionality. Build a sample application, install ngrok, creating a local HTTP tunnel

Releasing Clientelify v2 - finished online booking functionality

Leaving investment banking to learn to code. Working as a developer and tech / product lead. Starting a company

Learn how to make you rails app faster by eliminating n+1 queries! Read about eager loading, using size vs count, and the bullet gem

How to show time in your rails app in various time zones (and across daylight savings time boundaries)

Is byebug stopping the execution of your rails tests multiple times at the same time? Multiple threads are likely the cause. Read more here

The company I founded has been featured on BetaList!

How Brendan Manley built VirtualAd, a pay-as-you-go advertising solution for small businesses

Learn how to host your own podcast. It is easy to retain full ownership, control, and SEO / traffic benefits

My favourite takeaways from exploring Ruby on Rails source code

How to quickly create a mockup for your application idea

How Tim built Motus Strength Health Club, a private fitness studio an hour west of Toronto

Find out how Airbnb, Dropbox, and Hotmail achieved explosive growth through non-traditional marketing channels

How Erica built Vacation Fund, an employer-matched travel savings program

How Andrew built Minifridge Media, a Toronto video production agency shaking up corporate videos

How to make concurrent API (HTTPS) requests in ruby. Multithreading made simple

How to create a JS file that only gets included for a specific view (and not all views) in Ruby on Rails

A collection of Swift error messages and their solutions

How Tom built Vocalmatic, an AI-powered automatic transcription software for converting audio to text

A non-technical explanation of what an API (application programming interface) is

Do you have a good idea for a startup? Read this article to learn the #1 reason startups fail, and the best way to avoid it

A quick overview of the 5 most important facets underlying a great user interface (UI)

Containerizing all of the code

Replying to tweets containing Drake lyrics with the next line of the song