A story about building a scaling a web service in an extremely simple way using Heroku.| www.rdegges.com
Does listening to music help you focus? Here's what I found.| www.rdegges.com
Real estate vs stocks: which is better? A discussion of my personal investing strategy.| www.rdegges.com
How I stumbled into a journaling habit and how it changed my life for the better.| www.rdegges.com
The personal productivity system I live by: the feature snowball method.| www.rdegges.com
Thoughts on maintaining economic stability in a crisis.| www.rdegges.com
Don't waste your time on user feedback if you're a startup.| www.rdegges.com
How you price an API service is incredibly important. In this article I'll explain what good API pricing looks like, and why.| www.rdegges.com
An in-depth look at how I manage my finances.| www.rdegges.com
Stop using local storage to store sensitive information. If you're putting a JWT in local storage you're doing it wrong.| www.rdegges.com
The EU Cookie Law has had a massive negative impact on website security. Here's why.| www.rdegges.com
Authentication hasn't improved much in the last several years. Here's the current state of things.| www.rdegges.com
In which I reflect on the sad state of my busy life over the last few years.| www.rdegges.com
Software licensing is stupid. Let's take a look at why.| www.rdegges.com
Obsessing over availability and service uptime is dumb. Here's why.| www.rdegges.com
A look back on my first two years as a Developer Evangelist at Stormpath.| www.rdegges.com
In this part of the series, we'll lay out our Heroku addon plans, take a look at mockups, and cover high-level functionalities.| www.rdegges.com
I'm buiding a Heroku addon, and you'll do it with me! In this series we'll build a Heroku addon together!| www.rdegges.com
I love HTTP Basic Authentication. It's simple, secure, and a pleasure to use.| www.rdegges.com
An easy way to accomplish little wins throughout the day is to try and always leave things better off than they were before you got there.| www.rdegges.com
A bit of discussion about my mindset, and a little bit of advice for people not already enjoying their lives.| www.rdegges.com
Some personal reflection on what my ideal life might look like.| www.rdegges.com
This article talks about my experience learning to program and my general development mindset.| www.rdegges.com
Be merciless with yourself if you want have no regrets.| www.rdegges.com
This article shows you the simplest way to compress your HTML code with Django.| www.rdegges.com
What I learned while building my writing habit.| www.rdegges.com
Want to be a better person? Do the right thing. Have some personal integrity, and make good decisions.| www.rdegges.com
Give this a try: do stuff, and have fun. Don't worry about anything else.| www.rdegges.com
I'm learning node.js because not only is it awesome, but it's a great way to improve my Javascript chops while concurrently writing backend code. It's a two for one deal.| www.rdegges.com
I'm working on a new startup: OpenCNAM! If you're interested, read on.| www.rdegges.com
A guide to being a successful GitHub hacker and open source developer.| www.rdegges.com
You know what's fun? Programming. Don't let the passion fade.| www.rdegges.com
The thought of automating all my work and making my life as simple as possible is really motivating to me.| www.rdegges.com
Having fun programming is something that a lot of programmers forget how to do -- and that makes me sad. Check this shit out.| www.rdegges.com
A little rant about Heroku, David Cramer, and 'cloud' myths. Heroku is awesome, learn why.| www.rdegges.com
Build modular, simple software! It's simpler, more useful, and more fun!| www.rdegges.com
Want to make your life easier when writing production quality software? You should try to keep your development environment as similar to your production environment as possible.| www.rdegges.com
I'm two months into my new startup. Here are some of the things I've been thinking about.| www.rdegges.com
One way to become a better programmer is to increase your usage of application monitoring software. You'd be surprised how much you'll learn! My suggestion: use New Relic.| www.rdegges.com
I just wrote a book! On Heroku!| www.rdegges.com
A quick look at some of the side effects you'll encounter when writing service oriented applications. Many of them are positive.| www.rdegges.com
A look at some of the problems you'll encounter when writing service oriented applications.| www.rdegges.com
A few days I've devised to keep myself motivated for writing code over the years.| www.rdegges.com
Programmers are the most dangerous people on the planet: they have the power to change the world -- solo.| www.rdegges.com
The next time you get frustrated, take a deep breath and relax. Coding when you're frustrated isn't going to help anyone.| www.rdegges.com
I can't stand the thought of doing anything less than 100%. It's the only way I can live with myself.| www.rdegges.com
I suck at multi-tasking. It's a lot easier to focus on a single thing at a time.| www.rdegges.com
Some of the things I try to do on a daily basis to keep myself sane.| www.rdegges.com
A great way to free up your time is to automate everything: from buying groceries to running repetitive tasks at work.| www.rdegges.com
If you miss the LA Hackathon, you're missing out; hardcore.| www.rdegges.com
Striving for perfection is the only way to become the absolute best. You've got to keep pushing yourself if you want to improve.| www.rdegges.com
A quick article discussing the past year I spent in Bakersfield, California, and how it went.| www.rdegges.com
DNSimple is the greatest DNS provider in the history of the universe. You'd be crazy not to use them. Here's why.| www.rdegges.com
Introducing postgression: a free PostgreSQL database service.| www.rdegges.com
Don't be an asshat. Be nice to your fellow developers! We're all total noobs, finding our way through this crazy world.| www.rdegges.com
When I'm in a calm state of mind I tend to do my best work -- how about you?| www.rdegges.com
A technical look at Heroku's dynos, and how they work.| www.rdegges.com
How I've been crawling out of my own exhaustion by focusing on the basics and keeping things simple.| www.rdegges.com
My thoughts on all the negativity in the tech community.| www.rdegges.com
Sometimes you have to sacrifice other tasks and activities to make room for new ones.| www.rdegges.com
Your perspective on everyday situations makes all the difference in life.| www.rdegges.com
Want to improve yourself? It doesn't hurt to have high standards for yourself.| www.rdegges.com
I started using Bitcoin a while back, here are my thoughts.| www.rdegges.com
Some thoughts on continuous delivery, and why it is awesome.| www.rdegges.com
I've been waking up at 5am, trying to change things up a bit. These are my thoughts.| www.rdegges.com
A motivational short about living a fearless life.| www.rdegges.com
PostgreSQL has a really useful extension which allows you to easily do full text fuzzy search.| www.rdegges.com
Holy shit. I'm 25 years old. How did this happen? Anyway, here are some things I've learned.| www.rdegges.com
Come build an API company with me!| www.rdegges.com
Here's a trick to getting through those boring days at work: see how hard you can possibly work. Make it a game.| www.rdegges.com
The simplest way to extract XML data with Python.| www.rdegges.com
A few ways you can instantly improve your month, cut back on stress, and feel happier.| www.rdegges.com
An in-depth look at how Caller ID works. TLDR: Caller ID is horribly broken and totally sucks.| www.rdegges.com
Some thoughts on how you can make the world a better place by improving your immediate environment.| www.rdegges.com
A quick look back at my startup: what things worked, what didn't, and what I learned along the way.| www.rdegges.com
I'm officially moving on from my startup to do something new! Here's my story.| www.rdegges.com
Reflections and thoughts about my first three weeks as a Developer Evangelist at Stormpath.| www.rdegges.com
Thoughts on building a life focused around quality.| www.rdegges.com
Heroku's platform was designed with services in mind. If you're building a service oriented web app, you might find this interesting.| www.rdegges.com
A story on how I unknowingly spammed Reddit, and reflections on what is and isn't considered spam in the world of tech.| www.rdegges.com
A story in which I discover that writing simple for loops in Node.js isn't always so simple.| www.rdegges.com
How do you find that thing you were meant to do? The thing that you love spending your time on? Your passion?| www.rdegges.com
Some personal reflections on the best thing I ever did for myself and my own personal growth.| www.rdegges.com