There are many great podcast players out there for iOS, I have been an avid Overcast user for years. So, why have I decided to make my own…

It has been too long since I have written any blog posts on my site. I had a few things to write about and took this opportunity to spruce…

APIs are core curriculum for any developer these days, whether it be building a JSON API to support interactive pieces of UI through AJAX, a…

I recently talked about our Vanilla Rails approach that we use in Alt Labs, in short it’s about minimising your dependencies and sticking to…

This is another post coming out of working on my side project Void. You often see articles teaching testing or TDD on an example topic (I’ve…

This is the start of an ongoing series extracted from building Void – a bookmarking and reading list tool. Void is one of my side projects…

Vanilla Rails is something we have arrived at after several years of growing and maintaining Rails applications at Alt Labs. Update 9th…

I’m mainly writing this post for my own reference, I’m assuming most people have heard of letsencrypt.org and their free tool certbot for…

In a recent project I have been using UUIDs as the primary key type with Rails 5 and PostgreSQL. This can be useful if your objects IDs are…

Let’s start with a little context… I’ve been doing quite a lot of iOS development over the last couple of years, nearly all of my native app…