Michael Bleigh
Firebase engineer, web platform diehard
I Heart SASS, But HAML, I'm Just Not That In To You
Emacs vs Vim. iPhone vs Android. Of all of the nerd arguments, none hits closer to home for Ruby developers than HAML vs ERB. Proponents of HAML look at writing HTML as a dirty practice to be avoided at all costs and look down upon “mere” ERB authors. Meanwhile there’s...
You Should Be An Open Source Developer
This post is part of a series called Open Source Citizenry in which I discuss ways to eliminate the barriers that developers and companies face to participating in the open source community.
Why Open Source Company Culture is Important
This post is part of a series called Open Source Citizenry discussing ways to eliminate barriers developers and companies face to participating in the open source community.
Easy IP Geotargeting with Geokit and MongoMapper
There are several cases in which it might make sense to tailor your app’s content based on a user’s physical location. But asking them directly is a bit of a pain. Luckily, it’s extremely simple to find a user’s location knowing only something you will always know about a visitor:...
RailsWizard Reimagined
TL;DR: I’ve rewritten RailsWizard from the ground up to be as fast and useful to developers as possible. You can now also run it through the command line with the RailsWizard Gem.