Hello! My name is Nathan, and this is my personal website.
(By day, I work at Betterment, but the views reflected here are my own.)
Read more about me →
- @smudgethefirst on Twitter
- @smudge on GitHub
Writing
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Nov 2021 »
RubyConf 2021
Not just a trip to Denver ⛰️🏔️⛰️
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Jan 2021 »
All-In on Pattern Matching
In which I demonstrate a declarative/functional approach to CLI opts parsing
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Jul 2020 »
Farewell, Middleman
Farewell Middleman. Hello Zola. How I cut another 1,000+ lines of boilerplate code.
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Talks
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May 2022 »
RAILS_ENV=demo (RailsConf '22)
diving into the "demo" environment
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Apr 2021 »
Can I Break This? (RailsConf '21)
How to write resilient "save" methods
Projects
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2022 »
demo_mode →
A 'demo mode' for your Rails app. Define 'personas' and this gem will handle the rest.
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2021 »
delayed →
a multi-threaded, SQL-driven ActiveJob backend used at Betterment to process millions of background jobs per day
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2021 »
imagesnap →
A CLI for capturing images 📷 📸 🖼️
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2020 »
nightlight →
A CLI for Night Shift on macOS 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑
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2020 »
brdiff →
A CLI for producing "blue-red difference" images, to detect pigments in artwork
- ↳ all projects...