I am a programmer living in Valencia. I work at Basecamp. You can contact me by email or find me on Github and Twitter. You can also subscribe to my posts by email.

Articles I write

You can see my full list of posts. The last pieces I have written:

• Complexity-inducing narratives (Apr 19)

• Farewell Evernote (Apr 9)

• A Basecamp email: before and after (Mar 19)

• Extracting, not inventing (Mar 14)

And my favorite ones:

• Complexity-inducing narratives (Apr 19)

• Development costs, the cornerstone of any nutritious process (Aug 9, 2018)

• Escaping the SPA rabbit hole with modern Rails (Jul 4, 2018)

• Resilience, a double-edged sword (Apr 9, 2018)

• Mind your dependencies (Mar 15, 2018)

Things I do

I have published a few open source libraries. Some of them:

• ib_ruby_proxy: Invoke Interactive Brokers API from Ruby.
• impersonator: Ruby library to record and replay object interactions.
• turbolinks_render: Support for using Rails render when responding to ajax requests.
• qc: A command-line tool for syncing and running your backtests in QuantConnect
• forceps: For downloading linked models from remote databases. It is useful for downloading production data to your local box.
• mailgun_rails: An ActiveMailer adapter for Mailgun based on its REST API.
• truncato: A tool for truncating multi-MB XML strings efficiently.
• lazy_columns: Support for lazy-loading columns in Active Record models.

You can check my Github profile.