About

I’m a principal software engineer at @Wealthbox, a husband/father, and a health/travel/tech enthusiast.

I write about my own development experiences, recent personal work, and moments of inspiration and discovery in my professional journey.

My blog posts have been featured in a variety of newsletters and even reacted to on youtube 😵‍💫

• ui.dev
• React Status
• primagen youtube reaction
• Postgres Weekly
• pgMustard

Lately I’ve been increasing my open source contributions. I’ve contributed to the following projects:

• after_commit_everywhere
• tanstack table
• smarter_csv
• rvm
• brpoplpush-redis_script
• binding-pry-js

I’m maintaining a few small packages:

• sidekiq-job-signal - Ruby gem that allows you to signal a sidekiq job to quit. On server restart the job will run as a no-op, allowing you to cancel runaway jobs easily.
• pg-pool-safe-query - Ruby gem that monitors ActiveRecord queries for statements which are incompatible with PGBouncer in transaction mode.
• pg-pool-safe-query-rs - Rust crate containing utilities to identify SQL statements which are incompatible with PGBouncer in transaction mode.
• emoji-network-log - JS package that patches fetch and XMLHTTPRequest to monitor network call performance. Logs emojis to the dev console based on fast, average or slow requests, alongside their url.
• emoji-log - Ruby gem that hooks into rails request and logs emojis representing fast, average or slow requests.