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Emotional APII'm the co-founder of Data Simply, a company that helps investors make choices aligned with their values.
Data SimplyI'm a developer at Privia Health, helping make healthcare what it ought to be.
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Recently I encountered a situation where incoming JSON was converted to a hash, and certain keys were not always present. Naturally I want to safely grab the values that were present without barfing on the nils. hsh = {foo: bar: [2]} bad_hsh = {foo: nil} should_be_2 = hsh[:foo][:bar].first # works uhoh = fail[:foo][:bar].first # NilClass […]
13 March 2016
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You can’t start a multi-site install from scratch, you have to install the base site first, then turn on multi-site. If you turn it on right out of the box, you’ll get stuck with a database error and probably spend an hour messing with MySQL permissions before you figure it out. Don’t ask how I […]
16 July 2014
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Here is a list of things I learned working on a project a while back, I wrote them down because they’re so screwy I know I’d force myself to forget them: Cookie size causes both the browser and the server to barf. Total size, not just individual cookie. Deleting a cookie is tricky, sometimes IE […]
23 January 2014
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I posted a new entry on Privia Health‘s technology blog about some troubles I had working with Ruby sockets: Adventures In Ruby Socket Programming
29 August 2013
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For the Invest Your Heart project, I’ve been working on getting image uploads perfected. That’s easy enough with the Paperclip gem. But storing uploads on your Heroku dyno isn’t a good idea, so I wanted to use S3. Oh and throw in upload previews, resizing and a progress bar. I managed to get it all […]
21 April 2013
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