James Gifford

Recently at my job, one of the other software developers was talking about how they had a trick where you’d land in a vim session on every login. This got me thinking - could you live with vim as your login shell? I quickly discovered that vim couldn’t

Something that I hear from many people is “I don’t have good ideas”. Meh. I think you’ve got great ideas, you just haven’t put them together yet. What you need is a Spark File. The writer Steven Johnson is the first person I could find that talked

Sometimes, when you're building a Ruby on Rails API with Serializers, you want to pass a variable into the serializer from the controller - in this example, we want to pass in the search query. If we have a serializer like this: class ReviewSerializer < ActiveModel::Serializer attributes

Here’s a conundrum. The human capabilities that are most critical to success—the ones that can help your organization become more resilient, more creative, and more, well, awesome—are precisely the ones that can’t be “managed.” While you can compel financially dependent employees to be obedient and diligent,

We often use the word “emotional” as if it’s a bad word, especially in the workplace. When people cry at their desks or explode in laughter in a meeting, they’re often immediately written off as being “unprofessional.” Why? Because emotions aren’t clear-cut, they make things seem messy.

Shipping isn’t focused on producing a masterpiece (but all master-pieces get shipped). - Seth Godin, Linchpin In todays software-driven world, people have gotten over their fear of shipping products as a company. Software developers in particular have gotten pretty good at this whole “Ship the code to product now,