Projects

• Poll Everywhere
  Co-founder & CTO of the world's largest real-time polling service
• Thingybase
  Organize, track, & treasure your stuff
• Legible News
  Read unsensational news and learn something
• Sitepress
  A static site generator that also works in dynamic websites
• Firehose.io
  A pub-sub framework that deals with flakey browsers & internet connections

Talks

• RESTful Streams
  RailsConf 2012
• Middleman: The missing front end of the Rails API stack
  RailsConf 2014

Writing

• Starship coverage
  March 26, 2021
• Celestron NexStar Telescope
  March 16, 2021
• Make bundler fast again in Docker Compose
  March 21, 2015
• Pour over coffee
  December 11, 2014
• Formdown
  September 7, 2014
• How to highlight code for presentations
  April 17, 2014
• Hypermedia Object Notation
  November 21, 2013
• Preventing the bozo explosion
  October 21, 2013
• Facebook: the new arms dealer
  September 5, 2013
• 785 Gigabytes per human
  July 8, 2013
• HTML5 app on a floppy disk
  May 2, 2013
• I choose Hulu+ over Netflix
  January 8, 2013
• Its 2012 and Microsoft is still using Silverlight
  August 23, 2012
• How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States
  July 28, 2012
• ActiveRecord should have its own command line interface, and so should your rubygem
  April 11, 2012
• Product vision videos may be hazardous to your product
  April 4, 2012
• Don't just use rails as an API
  March 21, 2012