Nicholas Schwaderer: _why interviews DHH 14 years ago this week

Yep - can you believe it! That nice little Ruby interview turned 14 this week. Check out more here: www.pastrubies.com Nicholas Schwaderer

Nicholas Schwaderer Launches "PastRubies" Ruby Newsletter

PastRubies is a weekly newsletter that allows you to peek into Ruby’s past. Consider it a “This Week In History” for the language. Second edition and subscription link here: https://schwad.github.io/past_rubies/2019/06/26/past-rubies-2.html

How Rails and Heroku Saved My Bacon - Nick Schwaderer

The holiday season is wild. With that and a wedding, I was at full-tilt stress mode. Luckily the simplicity of Ruby/Rails + Heroku got me out of a jam https://schwad.github.io/ruby/rails/heroku/2019/01/11/how-rails-and-heroku-saved-my-bacon.html

Migrate your apps to the new community-maintained trix gem: 'trix-rails'

Trix is a fantastic open-source WYSIWYG tool from the lovely folks at Basecamp. Thanks to their hard work, we can easily punch in rich text editing for our users in a text field or text area: https://schwad.github.io/ruby/rails/community/2018/08/21/new-community-maintained-trix-gem.html

Talking about my first Rails pull request on The Ruby On Rails Podcast

I was absolutely honored when I was invited to speak and share my story a few weeks ago; from dipping my toes into very small bits of open source to getting a meaningful Rails PR accepted by DHH himself.: https://schwad.github.io/ruby/rails/community/2018/10/16/talking-about-my-first-rails-core-pull-request-on-the-ruby-on-rails-podcast.html

Speaking on Ruby and Chronic Pain Management in Sheffield

I was recently invited to Sheffield Ruby User Group to share the story of MaraBot, a very personal project to help use machine learning and weather shifts to regain control over managing chronic pain.: https://schwad.github.io/ruby/rails/community/2018/10/16/speaking-on-ruby-and-chronic-pain-management-at-sheffield-ruby.html

Take care when using render in Rails

The more I experiment with other technologies, the more I realize what a joy it is to work with Rails and Ruby every single day.: https://schwad.github.io/ruby/rails/controllers/2017/09/05/take-care-when-using-render-in-rails.html