I'm Jared Norman, a software consultant, open-source maintainer, and member of the Solidus core team. I believe that the software industry is short-sighted and fails to capitalize on its own best ideas. My company, Super Good Software, helps organizations learn from the past and build software more effectively.| jardo.dev
I got nerd-sniped by a Reddit post on Test-Driven Development. Sorry in advance.| jardo.dev
Let's explore how we can use data and value objects with the factory method pattern to help decouple the components of our software.| jardo.dev
Microsoft announced today that the part of GitHub that matters to most people is not the purpose of the platform.| Jardo.dev: Blog
I'm a heavy Mastodon user and this is how I make sure I don't miss out on the good stuff.| Jardo.dev: Blog
Ever wonder how to generate Open Graph preview images like the one you might be looking at right now?| jardo.dev
Rake is great, but is Bake better? Let's go through setting it up on a new project to see!| jardo.dev
Rails gives us wonderful and reliable code reloading via Zeitwerk, but what do we do when we want that outside of our Rails apps?| Jardo.dev: Blog
Marco Roth and I collaborated on solving Advent of Code 2024 Day 5 with Ruby's most popular feature, refinements.| Jardo.dev: Blog
Some tips on how to make the most of Solidus, or completely fail by doing the opposite.| Jardo.dev: Blog
How can eCommerce teams improve their development processes?| Jardo.dev: Blog
I just finished playing the first iteration of a board game I created about building Ruby on Rails applications. It was actually kind of fun!| Jardo.dev: Blog
What's with all the buzz about system tests in the Ruby on Rails community right now?| Jardo.dev: Blog
I'm not saying we should all use Gerrit, but I am saying that using Gerrit early in my career made me a much better programmer.| Jardo.dev: Blog
I'm sorry. I started a podcast. Please subscribe to it.| Jardo.dev: Blog
Pivotal Tracker is shutting down. It might not have been perfect, but I'll still miss it.| Jardo.dev: Blog
The structure of the code you write can communicate your intentions, making it easier to understand for other developers.| Jardo.dev: Blog
Service Objects are a popular software design pattern in the Ruby on Rails community. They are used to extract procedural logic away from models and controllers and into their own objects.| Jardo.dev: Blog
I often tell people that Solidus is the most customizable eCommerce platform on the market. I've broken down what that means and how it achieves that.| Jardo.dev: Blog
Object-oriented programmers have a solution to null propagation, the null object pattern, but is it a good fit for Ruby and other dynamic languages?| Jardo.dev: Blog
Should we be worried about the impact of Threads.net on the Fediverse? I summarize my thoughts on the possible outcomes and why I think we should be cautiously hopeful.| jardo.dev
The direction from which you attack a program problem affects the result. I don't think that's controversial.| jardo.dev