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I got a lovely email from Gustavo Carvalho, in Brazil. It’s a professional question, not so much a technical question. I’m fine with those.

He wrote:

Did you ever set long-term professional goals? If so, how did you approach it? How did you set it up?

I’m having a really hard time thinking about...

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If you’re a web developer, you’re no doubt familiar with HTTP requests. It’s when you fetch a file from the server, right?

It’s also when you send information back to the server, including submitting a form or uploading a file.

You may have seen some examples of HTTP requests. It may have looked...

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Sometimes when you’re reading a murder mystery, you’ll want to think about two different scenarios: what if the butler did it, vs what if it was the wealthy socialite? What would be different? What evidence might they leave?

This is also a core skill for senior-and-up software engineers. It’s obvious...

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A fellow recently asked me for advice about running a Ruby workshop. And folks, I had forgotten I knew so much about it before he asked!

Before Rebuilding Rails had a video class, I had written a lot of the material for Rebuilding Rails workshops that I gave at Southeast Ruby and at Railsconf. I...

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After a previous post I was asked for some examples: what types of things do you take out of your Rails app, especially a new one, to make a new service? For general rules read that post. But for some specifics, this is the post.

I gave a Twitter-length answer on Twitter. This has a bit more elaboration...

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A certain kind of software developer—or more often, businessperson— likes to talk about a hundred-year programming language, or even a hundred-year framework.

That’s a pretty audacious thing to say. I mean, software development is roughly 65...

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A gentleman on Twitter suggested that to make a new SaaS app, you should do these things:

• Keep it Simple, Stupid
• Start with Nextjs or Remix app and a database
• Can’t do something in JavaScript or Typescript?
• Break it out into a separate service
• DO NOT over architecture your app

This is pretty good...

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I’m mentoring a very pleasant fellow who would like to get his Ruby resume in order and get hired in Rails. He asked me, “how important is a presence on social media, just to find a role?”

Here’s roughly what I told him.

With your tech stack, you’ll want a specialty — in his case, Rails. But you...

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A reader of Mastering Software Technique emailed me to ask:

You mentioned it’s important to find a source of feedback while learning. I am just starting out with programming, so any suggestions on where to get such feedback would be great.

It’s a great question! Here’s what I told him, plus a little...

career technique

I was talking with some folks lately about how Rails is amazing and unmatched for prototyping web apps. If you’re dealing with high market risk, you want to build a lot of prototypes, fast, at low quality, with the assumption that 90%+ of them will be thrown away because nobody will buy them. That...

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