Articles
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![Artist’s impression of two neutron stars merging and exploding as a kilonova edited to have the Rails and TailwindCSS logos overlaid on the neutron stars. Original image University of Warwick/Mark Garlick](/assets/articles/merging-neutron-stars-rails-tailwindcss.jpg)
March 15th, 2021
Adding TailwindCSS To A New Rails App
A quick run-through of my experience integrating TailwindCSS 2 into a new Rails 6.1 app and the minor tweaks I made to pull it off.
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February 23rd, 2021
Engineer's Guide To Windows: Ruby on Rails
The third post in a series on setting up a new Windows 10 machine for software engineers/developers. Everything you need to work on a Rails app
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February 8th, 2021
Engineer's Guide To Windows: WSL
The second post in a series on setting up a new Windows 10 machine for software engineers/developers. Time to install WSL and setup a Linux distro 😎
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February 1st, 2021
Instance Doubles: Rspec Anti-Pattern?
I've struggled with writing good tests, but I think that a rule to follow is better tests come from leaning into setting up data and not avoiding the database
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January 18th, 2021
Engineer's Guide To Windows: Start Fresh
The first post in a series on setting up a new Windows 10 machine for software engineers/developers. Focusing on getting a clean slate to build on!