Values: Where tech + handmade converge
I wrote a post on the blog for my coming soon! product inspired by a talk Francis Hwang gave at GoRuCo on Javascript. He said: Our tools will change, but our values can stay the same. Read my post here.
Showing a default image if one doesn’t exist in jQuery
Have you ever wanted to default an image if the image url doesn't exist? In javascript, how do you check whether that url is real or not? Here's how! (in jQuery) (more…)
DRY up Rspec with tap!
I'm a big fan of keeping Rspec DRY. Mostly, because it hurts my heart to have to write the same thing twice. It huuuurts. Here's a great article on code reuse in Rspec. A scenario I struggle with DRYing up: I'd like to either stub! or call should_receive on a method and sometimes return a value. Previously, I would still have to write the stub! or should_receive twice -- one with and_returns and one without. (more…)
Featured on STEMinist
This is a little behind the times due to a job change, but I was featured on the STEMinist blog back in April. Check it out. Note: I am no longer at that job.