Andy Zhao (he/him)

uh oh where'd my bio go!

Joined on Mar 28, 2017

Education

Actualize Coding Bootcamp

Work

Dev at Forem

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html_grabber_api

An HTML element parser built on Rails and PostgreSQL.

Ruby

Flutter and mobile development, as well as getting better with testing via RSpec and Jest/Enzyme.

Ruby, Rails, Javascript, React, SQL, PostgreSQL.

Cup o' tea and talking dev things, off or online.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Sep 8 '17

What's your favorite useless repo/package/website/etc?

#discuss #productivity #offtopic #justforfun

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jun 8 '20

Changelog: Updated Mod Tooling

#changelog #meta

2 min read

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Apr 17 '20

New Feature: Response Templates!

#changelog #meta

2 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him)

Feb 11 '20

What's your audio player?

#watercooler

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Dec 11 '19

Changelog: Hidden Comments

#meta #changelog

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Nov 6 '19

Changelog: Block Tools For User Safety

#changelog #meta

2 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him)

Oct 3 '19

Ruby IRB with Syntax Highlighting (and more!) in Ruby 2.7

#news #ruby

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Sep 24 '19

How do you keep good posture while sitting?

#watercooler #discuss

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Aug 16 '19

Installing a New Node Version and Migrating npm Global Packages

#node #npm #nvm #beginners

4 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him)

Jul 3 '19

Why do programmers like the winter?

#jokes

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jun 29 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource #reporecap

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jun 25 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource #reporecap

7 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jun 14 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

7 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jun 14 '19

Removing a Database Index from Rails Console

#ruby #rails #postgres

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Jun 13 '19

Rails to Introduce View Components

#news #ruby #rails #opensource

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Jun 11 '19

What's the quickest path into game development for a curious webdev?

#discuss #webdev #gamedev

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jun 10 '19

New Project: Repo Recap!

#showdev #meta #ruby #opensource

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jun 4 '19

Changelog: Join Multiple Organizations

#changelog #meta

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Apr 29 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

6 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Apr 22 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Two Weeks

#changelog #meta #opensource

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Apr 18 '19

How I do solve this impossible SQL query?

#help #sql #postgres

2 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Apr 5 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Three Weeks

#changelog #meta #opensource

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Mar 20 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Three Weeks

#changelog #meta #opensource

10 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Mar 1 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Mar 1 '19

New Feature: Milestone Notifications!

#meta #changelog

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Feb 25 '19

New Feature: Organization Notifications!

#changelog #meta

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Feb 22 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him)

Feb 20 '19

Challenge: Get Closest Number in an Array

#challenge

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Feb 15 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

4 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Feb 8 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Two Weeks

#changelog #meta #opensource

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jan 25 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

4 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jan 24 '19

New Feature: Mute Notifications

#changelog #meta

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Jan 23 '19

Why is Rails ActiveRelation.update_all updating a different set of records?

#help #ruby #rails

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jan 18 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

5 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jan 10 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

4 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him)

Jan 7 '19

GitHub Private Repos are Now Free

#news #opensource

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jan 2 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Dec 29 '18

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

4 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him)

Dec 28 '18

Reek - Find your Code Smells!

#githunt #ruby #opensource

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Dec 19 '18

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Two Weeks

#changelog #meta #opensource

5 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Dec 6 '18

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Nov 29 '18

dev.to Repo Recap of the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Nov 29 '18

Markdown Headers Are Now Anchored!

#meta #changelog

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Nov 21 '18

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

4 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Nov 14 '18

dev.to Repo Recap of the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Nov 9 '18

dev.to Repo Recap

#changelog #meta #opensource

2 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him)

Nov 2 '18

Which is more readable?

#codecompare #ruby

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Oct 26 '18

What do you to wind down after a weekday?

#discuss

1 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Oct 24 '18

Notable dev.to Issues Up for Grabs

#meta #hacktoberfest

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Oct 17 '18

Notable Issues of the Week Up for Grabs

#meta #hacktoberfest

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Sep 5 '18

Today I Googled: How to Loop Videos on YouTube

#todayisearched #javascript #html

3 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Aug 8 '18

dev.to open source help/discussion thread (v0)

#meta

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Jun 29 '18

Ruby Segmentation Fault When Running RSpec

#help #ruby #rspec #rails

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

May 2 '18

How do you catch up with code that was merged recently?

#discuss #collaboration

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Mar 15 '18

Explain Indexing Like I'm Five

#explainlikeimfive #database

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Mar 9 '18

Why don't operating systems and browsers limit shared resources more strictly?

#discuss

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Feb 23 '18

Installing Ruby 2.5.0

#setup #ruby #macos

1 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him)

Feb 22 '18

TIL You Can Add Virtual Attributes to Rails Models

#todayilearned #ruby #rails

4 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him)

Feb 21 '18

How did you first start out learning programming?

#discuss #education

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Feb 1 '18

Help Me Refactor dev.to's Markdown Service!

#help #meta #refactorit #ruby

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Dec 21 '17

What are some funny lines of code you've run/written into a project?

#discuss #fun #productivity

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