Learning Paths

Guided reading paths through my articles, organized by interest and experience level.

New to Ruby

Starting from scratch? These posts cover the fundamentals you need to write idiomatic Ruby.

1. Understanding Ruby - Triple Equals
2. Understanding Ruby - Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas
3. Understanding Ruby - to_proc and Function Interfaces
4. Understanding Ruby - Comparable
5. Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Intro and Interfaces
6. Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Transformations
7. Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Searching and Filtering
8. Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Predicate Conditions
9. Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Sorting and Comparing
10. Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Counting
11. Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Combining
12. Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Grouping
13. Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Iterating and Taking
14. Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Coercion
15. Understanding Ruby - For vs Each
16. Understanding Ruby – Recursion
17. Understanding Ruby - Memoization

Functional Ruby

Closures, reduce, transducers, monoids, and functional patterns applied in Ruby.

1. Reducing Enumerable — The Basics
2. Reducing Enumerable — No-Op and Boolean
3. Reducing Enumerable — Sorting and State
4. Functional Programming in Ruby — Closures
5. Functional Programming in Ruby — Flow Control
6. Understanding Transducers in Ruby
7. Of a Higher Order - Map, Filter, Reduce
8. Deeper Magics: Monoids in Ruby and Rails
9. Clocks are Monoids Too!
10. Functional Programming in Ruby – State

Systems & Architecture

Thinking about large codebases, modularity, ASTs, and tooling at scale.

1. Future of Ruby – AST Tooling
2. ASTs in Ruby - Pattern Matching
3. ASTs in Ruby - Node Pattern and Introducing RuboCop
4. Exploring dry-rb - Intuition of Results

Senior & Career

What it means to go beyond senior, progressive influence, promotions, and leadership.

1. Beyond Senior – Progressive Influence
2. Beyond Senior – Just Enough Experimentation
3. Beyond Senior – The IC Misnomer
4. Beyond Senior – The Peacock, the Hermit, and the Counsel
5. Beyond Senior - The Parable of the Sword
6. Beyond Senior - The Vista Problem
7. Beyond Senior - Fire! Fire!
8. Beyond Senior - Metric Obsessions
9. On Promotions
10. Interviewing - Perspective of the Interviewee

Neurodivergence in Tech

Writing about autism, ADHD, and building a career that works with how you're wired.

1. Lemurs mean Hope
2. Tales of the Autistic Developer - The 10x Engineer
3. Tales of the Autistic Developer - The Ecstasy of the Void
4. Tales of the Autistic Developer - Myth of the Autistic Jerk
5. Tales of the Autistic Developer - Senior Developer
6. Tales of the Autistic Developer - The Mentor
7. Tales of the Autistic Developer - The Expert
8. Tales of the Autistic Developer - Loud Loud World
9. Tales of the Autistic Developer – Order and Chaos
10. Tales of the Autistic Developer – The Politician
11. On Autism - Grounding and Normalcy