Blog

A running list of Elixir libraries I created and currently maintain.

Raspberry Pi Home Router + Open VPN setup instructions

Finally collected all 7 continents!

A P2P network bootstrapping library with no centralized server dependency

A progress bar clock format using Processing

Since I joined Vox Media back in April in the OpBandit acquisition, Vox has raised a little money, acquired Re/code, and turned into a unicorn 🦄. Over the last 10 months, I’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the best and most talented people in the publishing space. It has been an amazing experience, and I’m very grateful to Trei Brundrett and the rest of the Vox Media Product Team for creating such a great environment for product development. After integrating the OpBandit platform into Vox’s core CMS, building out solid data infrastructure and data science teams, and an incredible amount of self-reflection, I’ve decided to take some time away from online publishing. ...

Retrospective lessons after a startup exit

As a followup to the post describing my thoughts around renaming the gender_detector gem, I wanted to release the results of the survey at the end (if you haven’t read the original post, you should definitely go back to get a sense of context). First, there were way more responses then I hoped for (545 total responses!). 15% were female (83), 81% male (444), and 3% (18) provided another gender (which were mostly antagonistic, like “squirrel”). Just over half (283) provided additional comments. ...

Renaming the SexMachine gem

Determining Your Public IP with Ruby via Google