Old Chestnut Software

I released version 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 of ArchivalRecord today. This version is a major point release because it obsoletes support for rails 4 and 5 and ruby 2. There was also a good deal of rubocop driven refactoring in the code - including some nice...

A project I’ve spent a lot of time on over the years is called ActsAsArchival. I am no longer a part of the company that owns the copyright, but I do still like the project, so I decided to fork it in classic open source fashion and work on some of...

I have been doing katas on Codewars for many years now, and I thought as a series of exercises, I would revisit my old and often bad solutions and refactor them as I might in a production system. So today, I will refactor Sir, showMe yourID.

I’ve been working in the software industry professionally since 2003. I’ve worked on my own products. I’ve been a consultant. I’ve talked at meetups. I’ve done twitter support. I’ve done HR. I’ve done community moderation. I’ve built a lot of software. I’ve turned off a lot of software.

This is the next step in my software lifecycle.