I recently re-skimmed Lesslie Newbigin’s The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. Although I was looking for a later chapter, “The Congregation as the Hermeneutic of the Gospel,” I was most struck by the chapter “The Logic of Mission.” What follows is a summary and personal interpretation.

About a year ago, we migrated an old rate limiter to Redis. In the end, it worked out great, but we learned some lessons along the way.

GraphQL-Ruby 1.12 ships with a new GraphQL::Dataloader feature for batch-loading data.

2020 turned out to be a great year for books.

I thought I’d try to remember what I read last year.

Some notes on a refactor implemented with a Cop.

Did you know that calling return in one Ruby method could affect the flow of another method? I discovered it today while hunting a GraphQL-Ruby bugfix. You can get more reliable behavior with ensure, if it’s appropriate.

Yesterday I excitedly recommended to a friend that he try making some yogurt at home. Then I realized that my personal recipe is a bit of a hodge-podge, so I thought I’d try writing it out.

GraphQL-Ruby 1.9.0 introduces a new runtime called GraphQL::Execution::Interpreter. It offers better performance and some new features.

I just finished reading E.F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered, so I thought I’d jot down a few impressions before I forgot them.