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What’s a Good Sprint Cadence, Anyway? Sprint length. Estimating work. Getting stories over the line. These are the kinds of things that sound straightforward in theory but, in practice? They can get messy fast. If you’ve ever found yourself in a sprint meeting asking, “Wait, why are we even...
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September 24, 2025
What’s a Good Sprint Cadence, Anyway? Sprint length. Estimating work. Getting stories over the line. These are the kinds of things that sound straightforward in theory but, in practice? They can get messy fast. If you’ve ever found yourself in a sprint meeting asking, “Wait, why are we even
September 24, 2025
Problem: Our current implementation relies on session storage to manage the open “tabs” a user has. The “tabs” are in quotes because this lives on a dashboard and they are actually radio buttons under the hood that are styled to look like tabs. When a user clicks a tab, it interacts
September 24, 2025
If your server seems stuck or unresponsive, or maybe its telling you there is already a process running but you cant seem to find and shut it down, here’s a quick few-step process to identify and kill the process blocking the port: Find the process using the port: lsof -i tcp:3000 This will
September 24, 2025
Rspec and testing using capybara: Running my tests and seeing it run live can be super helpful for several reasons but especially when I am encountering a flaky spec. If I am running through the code and the logic makes sense or I have a binding.pry in the code and it is coming back
September 24, 2025
In this week’s Developer Roundtable, we dove into the topic of questionable emails and effective response strategies. In particular, the Flagrant email received a notification concerning a potential vulnerability to click-jacking on a website we are actively developing. Is this notification
September 24, 2025
I encountered an issue while working on a dynamic input field. The field allows users to input a number, with accompanying text indicating the type of input, like “nights.” It seemed straightforward until I realized the hardcoded label “nights” doesn’t work when the user enters the number 1. To
September 24, 2025
When developers think of testing, the knee-jerk reaction is often a push for 100% code coverage. But is coverage alone the best metric? Testing is complex and nuanced, with real-world trade-offs. Here’s how we approach testing with purpose, flexibility, and confidence. What Are Tests Really
September 12, 2025
Recently I did something I haven’t done for a long, long, long time — start up a Rails project from scratch. Well, I didn’t even really go “from scratch”, but from a jumping-off point, using Jumpstart. But let’s say that’s close enough to scratch. Since I’ve spent so much of my career
September 8, 2025
What we did: Started setting up a new design book club for XO Ruby, stay tuned đź‘€ Designed a special Training Tracker sticker to give out to volunteers Designed a graphic for DataTune to announce their site launch and a call for speakers Began researching a way to create an
September 3, 2025
Phase Knitting Yarn The first sighting Look at all ye yarn, oh so many choices to make Blank canvas, we meet again Endless possibilities So many combinations of stitches from knits, purls, to yarnovers So
August 29, 2025
…but I need you to be brave today and do your best to reject that gravitational pull, the undeniable allure of E2E tests, and do other things What we did: Updating designs on a contact page to incorporate methods to contact the user via phone or email when using Call Time, a
August 28, 2025
When I first started as a developer, I vaguely understood what a designer actually did. Now, I can’t imagine building without them. That shift didn’t happen overnight and I don’t think I’m alone in that journey. I think there is a large number of people who still undervalue and diminish the
August 21, 2025
This is not an intuitive thing to understand unless you’re already deep into TailwindCSS. Or, if you are me. So, if you somehow stumbled onto this post while trying to figure things out — welcome to the confusion. I hope I can help make it a little clearer. What I Was Trying to Do I needed
August 15, 2025
Good communication is an essential element to every successful relationship. Whether in our families, friendships or communities how clearly we express ourselves can often make the difference between building connection or aggravating conflicts. Having lived in intentional communities of one
August 15, 2025
In the first part of this blog series we discussed how important communication and dialogue is in work, life and websites. In this second part we will explore how the dialog element can be used in other creative ways and find parallels to how to communicate more effectively using tools like
