Writing

Tim in open source, September 2024

2024/10/05

Tim in open source, July 2024

2024/07/24

2023 in review

2024/01/08

Open source status update, September 2023

2023/10/20

Open source status update, August 2023

2023/09/10

Open source status update, October 2022–July 2023

2023/07/23

Open source status update, September 2022

2022/10/10

Open source status update, August 2022

2022/09/17

Open source status update, May–July 2022

2022/08/08

Joining Buildkite, and sticking with Ruby

2022/06/14

Open source status update, April 2022

2022/05/15

Two years of open source status updates

2022/05/02

Salubrious Ruby: Don’t mutate what you don’t own

2022/04/28

Open source status update, March 2022

2022/04/10

Let the shape of the code reflect its flow

2022/03/24

Salubrious Ruby

2022/03/24

Open source status update, 🇺🇦 February 2022

2022/03/19

Open source status update, December 2021 and January 2022

2022/02/13

Open source status update, November 2021

2021/12/13

Open source status update, October 2021

2021/11/15

Open source status update, September 2021

2021/10/11

Open source status update, July and August 2021

2021/09/06

Open source status update, June 2021

2021/07/11

Open source status update, May 2021

2021/06/08

Open source status update, March and April 2021

2021/05/10

Open source status update, February 2021

2021/03/09

Open source status update, January 2021

2021/02/01

Open source status update, December 2020

2021/01/06

2020 in review

2021/01/04

Open source status update, November 2020

2020/12/07

Open source status update, October 2020

2020/11/03

Open source status update, September 2020

2020/10/06

Open source status update, August 2020

2020/08/31

Open source status update, July 2020

2020/08/03

Philly.rb talk on hanami-view 2.0

2020/07/14

Open source status update, June 2020

2020/06/28

Rubyists, we must do better

2020/06/08

Open source status update, May 2020

2020/06/01

Sponsor me on GitHub

2020/05/21

Interviewed on GitHub’s “Open Source Friday” video series

2020/05/21

Sharing my Hanami 2 application template

2020/05/07

Open source status update, April 2020

2020/04/30

Open source status update, March 2020

2020/03/27

Speaking at RubyConf Thailand

2019/03/19

Podcast interview: Remote Ruby

2019/03/18

Talking “Views, from the top”

2019/03/17 - icelab.com.au

dry-view 0.6.0, an introductory talk, and plans for 1.0

2019/02/12 - dry-rb.org

Speaking at RubyConf AU 2019

2018/11/22

Talking functional architecture at RedDotRubyConf

2017/06/30 - icelab.com.au

Icelab talks at RubyConf AU 2017

2017/03/06 - icelab.com.au

A Rodakase retrospective: 1 year of dry-rb in production

2017/02/23 - icelab.com.au

2016 in review

2017/01/08

Announcing Decaf Sucks 2.0

2016/09/07 - icelab.com.au

Next-generation Ruby web apps with dry-rb, rom-rb, and Roda: RedDotRubyConf 2016

2016/06/28 - icelab.com.au

Conversational rom-rb, part 2: types, associations, and update commands

2016/06/10 - icelab.com.au

A conversational introduction to rom-rb

2016/06/03 - icelab.com.au

Put HTTP in its place with Roda

2016/05/24 - icelab.com.au

A change-positive Ruby web application architecture

2016/05/19 - icelab.com.au

Better code with an inversion of control container

2016/05/10 - icelab.com.au

Effective Ruby dependency injection at scale

2016/05/03 - icelab.com.au

Functional command objects in Ruby

2016/04/26 - icelab.com.au

Inactive records: the value objects your app deserves

2016/04/19 - icelab.com.au

My past and future Ruby

2016/04/14 - icelab.com.au

New podcasts

2014/11/05

Our Problem with Boxen

2014/05/18

Decaf Sucks 2: A New Old Design

2013/08/23 - icelab.com.au

Decaf Sucks 2: Starting Over

2013/08/10 - icelab.com.au

Decaf Sucks 2 Is Coming, 2 Hours at a Time

2013/08/05 - icelab.com.au

Sneaking Into the Everyday

2013/07/18 - icelab.com.au

Levelling Up With AngularJS: Building a Reusable Click to Edit Directive

2013/07/01 - icelab.com.au

Two i's

2013/06/17

Things Get Fuzzy Fast: Examine Your Day So You Can Learn From It

2013/06/04 - icelab.com.au

A Manageable Multi-Database Redis Development Setup

2013/04/16 - icelab.com.au

There is No Lab

2013/03/12 - icelab.com.au

Announcing Decaf Sucks 1.1

2013/01/10

My Boring Adventure

2013/01/06

2012 in Review

2013/01/01

Out My Window

2012/09/16

From a Good Idea and Persistence Came Sneakers

2012/09/10

Lost Cities for iOS

2012/08/28

Fast Downscaling of Retina OS X Screenshots

2012/08/22

Saying Goodbye, Keeping Your Team

2012/08/21

Moved to Hong Kong

2012/08/17

RubyMotion & Rails Responders at the Canberra Ruby Crew

2012/06/20

Icelab Singapore and RedDotRubyConf 2012

2012/06/03 - icelab.com.au

Wrapping Rack Middleware to Exclude Certain URLs (For Rails Streaming Responses)

2012/05/21 - icelab.com.au

The Darker Side of Software Development

2012/05/08

Money, Stress and The Cloud

2012/05/06 - icelab.com.au

Did you in-app purchase anything from the minibar, sir?

2012/03/29 - icelab.com.au

A Feeling of Lightness

2012/03/22

Derek Sivers on Doing Business

2012/03/18

For the Love of Fika

2012/03/16

Export Trajectory Stories to CSV

2012/03/14 - icelab.com.au

Icelab gets inventive, quadruples Melbourne team

2012/03/13 - icelab.com.au

Roxette in Hong Kong

2012/03/13

Shawn Blanc on Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule

2012/03/13

Swipe to Go Back

2012/03/02 - icelab.com.au

A Precious Hour

2012/03/01

A Webstock 2012 Recap

2012/02/29 - icelab.com.au

Announcing gentlyremind.me

2012/02/27 - icelab.com.au

Be More Than Your NDA

2012/02/26

500 Words before 8am

2012/02/24

Customising ActiveRecord's attribute formatting on inspect

2012/02/02 - icelab.com.au

Render Single-Line Markdown Text with Redcarpet

2012/01/24 - icelab.com.au

New Relic, Heroku and Rails Streaming Responses

2012/01/20 - icelab.com.au

2011 in Review

2012/01/05

Decaf Sucks Launch Countdown: A Restrospective

2011/12/23 - icelab.com.au

Dispatch's First Birthday

2011/12/09 - icelab.com.au

Moving to the Philippines

2011/11/03

Announcing Decaf Sucks for iPhone

2011/08/30 - icelab.com.au

Decaf Sucks Launch Countdown: Development Complete!

2011/08/23 - icelab.com.au

Decaf Sucks Launch Countdown: Un-Designing the App

2011/08/06 - icelab.com.au

Decaf Sucks Launch Countdown: Finishing the API

2011/07/30 - icelab.com.au

Decaf Sucks Launch Countdown: Getting to Work

2011/07/23 - icelab.com.au

Decaf Sucks Launch Countdown: Starting Again, Again

2011/07/15 - icelab.com.au

RailsCamp 9

2011/06/14 - icelab.com.au

Run Your Own Piece of Heroku with Foreman

2011/06/03 - icelab.com.au

What's New With Decaf Sucks

2011/05/26 - icelab.com.au

Canberra's Best Coffee

2011/05/10

Put Your Mac to Sleep With a Backup

2011/05/01

The Benefits of Waking Up Early

2011/04/18 - icelab.com.au

Useful Heroku-Friendly Rewrites with rack-rewrite

2011/04/06 - icelab.com.au

New site

2011/03/27

Embrace the Metaclass and Extend Your ActiveModels

2011/03/25 - icelab.com.au

FactoryGirl and has_many associations

2011/03/23 - icelab.com.au

Taking the pain out of save_and_open_page

2011/03/23 - icelab.com.au

TaskPaper and To-Do List Bankruptcy Without the Trauma

2011/02/02

Dispatch #2: Your Coffee, Faster

2011/01/26 - icelab.com.au

2010 in Review

2011/01/05

Wishing You a Happy, Caffeinated Christmas

2010/12/20 - icelab.com.au

Announcing Dispatch, From Decaf Sucks

2010/12/13 - icelab.com.au

Welcome to the OmniSocial

2010/10/10 - icelab.com.au

Decaf Sucks First Birthday Updates

2010/10/06

Easy server backups to Amazon S3 with duplicity

2010/09/22 - icelab.com.au

JavaScript Testing with Cucumber and Capybara

2010/04/09

Rails Label Helpers with Blocks

2010/03/30

BarCamp Canberra 2010 and an Introduction to Sinatra

2010/02/14

Making Your Capistrano Recipe Book

2010/01/19

2009 in a Few Lists

2010/01/07

The Atomic Shell Script

2009/11/04

Complex Nested Forms with Rails and Unobtrusive jQuery

2009/10/13

Decaf Sucks, and a Rails Rumble Redux

2009/09/02

Show Me the Page!

2009/08/06

Machinist and Paperclip

2009/07/25

Fast GitHub Clone Bash Function Using the OS X Clipboard

2009/07/21

Thinking Sphinx RSpec Matchers

2009/07/18

Using RSpec Ordered Message Expectations to Tighten your Specs

2009/07/01

De-@wip Your Cucumber Stories

2009/06/29

Rails Templates as the New Geek Code

2009/05/20

Importing Legacy Data in Rails

2009/05/01

Adaptive script/console Shell Alias for both Rails and Sinatra

2009/03/06

Cucumber steps for testing page URLs and redirects

2009/03/03

Business Cards and Hacker Groups

2009/02/27

Handy Shell Alias for Restarting your Rack Apps

2009/02/25

Installing Gitosis on Dreamhost

2009/02/25

Cleaner Sinatra integration with Compass 0.4

2009/02/15

A Cycle Helper for Sinatra

2009/02/12

Caching and Expring Stylesheets and Javascripts in Sinatra

2009/02/08

Truism

2009/02/05

Using Compass for CSS in your Sinatra application

2009/01/27

Accessing Basecamp's writeboards programatically with Ruby

2009/01/08

Capistrano task to selectively update crontabs

2008/11/25

Using Markov Chains to provide English language seed data for your Rails application

2008/10/22

For the win!

2008/10/20

Configuring god to monitor Sphinx's searchd

2008/09/10

Lessons learnt the hard way: Don't use script/console --sandbox on production apps

2008/09/10

Beijing Olympic medal tally for our Campfire bot

2008/08/10

Mum's Savoury Mince Pockets

2008/06/28

Displaying both local and HTTP remote images in Prince XML generated PDFs

2008/06/27

Loading the ActiveRecord SQL Server adapter in a Rails 2.1 app

2008/06/18

Enabling a non-interactive install of Blackdown's j2re1.4 on Ubuntu or Debian

2008/06/12

Automatic Saving Of Invalid Resources in Rails While Maintaining a Clean RESTful Interface

2008/06/09

God init script for Debian/Ubuntu systems

2008/05/26

Testing for elements in ActiveRecord's XML output

2008/04/18

Activating the screensaver with Quicksilver in OS X

2008/04/11

Setting default arguments for to_xml for your ActiveRecord model

2008/04/11

New Job at the Australian Medical Council

2008/03/27

Mocking out your Rails helpers in helper specs

2008/03/19

jQuery datepickers with constrained ranges in Rails forms

2008/03/18

Generating semi-private, obfuscated resource sharing URLs in Rails

2008/03/11

Canberra Ruby Crew February meeting wrap-up

2008/02/23

Naming schemes

2008/02/11

The Canberra Ruby Crew and getting involved

2008/01/21

ActionMailer templates in Rails 2.0

2008/01/10