matt swanson

Full-stack product engineer with 10 years experience building web applications. Keep it boring.

Indianapolis, IN Joined on Apr 13, 2020 https://boringrails.com

Education

Purdue

Work

Product Engineer at Arrows

Ruby, Rails, StimulusJS, Hotwire, TailwindCSS

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matt swanson

Jan 17 '23

Writing better Action Mailers: Revisiting a core Rails concept

#ruby #rails #webdev

8 min read

matt swanson

Aug 16 '22

Thinking in Hotwire: Progressive Enhancement

#ruby #rails #hotwire

7 min read

matt swanson

Jul 26 '22

Galaxy brain CSS tricks with Hotwire and Rails

#rails #ruby #hotwire #css

5 min read

matt swanson

Jul 12 '22

Adding keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys to StimulusJS

#ruby #rails #stimulus

4 min read

matt swanson

Jun 29 '22

The most underrated Rails helper: dom_id

#ruby #rails #hotwire

4 min read

matt swanson

Jun 14 '22

Self-destructing StimulusJS controllers

#ruby #rails #hotwire #stimulus

3 min read

matt swanson

Jun 1 '22

Tailwind style CSS transitions with StimulusJS

#rails #ruby #hotwire #stimulus

9 min read

matt swanson

Sep 29 '21

Ordinalize: Adding "-st", "-nd", "-rd", "-th" to dates

#todayilearned #rails #javascript #programming

1 min read

matt swanson

May 18 '21

Debugging slow Heroku builds

#heroku #webdev

4 min read

matt swanson

May 5 '21

Quickly explore your data with `uniq` and `tally`

#ruby #rails #webdev

1 min read

matt swanson

May 3 '21

Improving your Rails mailers with `email_address_with_name`

#ruby #rails #webdev

1 min read

matt swanson

Apr 12 '21

Building lightweight components with Rails Helpers and Stimulus

#ruby #rails #stimulus #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Apr 1 '21

Combine `redirect_to` and the `anchor` option

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Mar 30 '21

Lazy-loading content with Turbo Frames and skeleton loader

#ruby #rails #tailwindcss #webdev

3 min read

matt swanson

Mar 22 '21

Use `to_sql` to see what query ActiveRecord will generate

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Mar 18 '21

Prefer returning chainable ActiveRecord objects

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Mar 16 '21

Rails validations: unique within a certain scope

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Mar 12 '21

Boring breadcrumbs for Rails

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Mar 10 '21

Sharing common code between Rails controllers with `Scoped` pattern

#ruby #rails #webdev

1 min read

matt swanson

Mar 8 '21

Run different ActiveRecord validations based on context

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Mar 4 '21

Find records missing an association with `where.missing`

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Mar 2 '21

Testing multiple sessions in the same test with Capybara

#ruby #rails #testing #webdev

1 min read

matt swanson

Feb 26 '21

Pluck single values out of ActiveRecord models or Enumerables

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Feb 24 '21

Never mix up greater/less than when comparing dates again

#ruby #rails #webdev

1 min read

matt swanson

Feb 22 '21

Super readable String operations with `delete_prefix` and `delete_suffix`

#ruby #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Feb 19 '21

Setting CSS classes in Markdown with Jekyll

#jekyll #css

1 min read

matt swanson

Feb 18 '21

Use Heroku Dataclips to share query and do ad-hoc data exports

#ruby #rails #webdev

1 min read

matt swanson

Feb 17 '21

Ensure required environment variables are set when booting up Rails

#ruby #rails #webdev

1 min read

matt swanson

Feb 16 '21

Search and debug gems with `bundle open`

#ruby #rails #webdev

1 min read

matt swanson

Feb 15 '21

Automatically cast params with the Rails Attributes API

#ruby #rails #webdev

3 min read

matt swanson

Feb 12 '21

Show relevant chunks of text with Rails `excerpt` helper

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Feb 11 '21

Use Rails `link_to_unless_current` for navigation links

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Feb 10 '21

Use Rails `cycle` to avoid `i % 2 == 0` in your view loops

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Feb 10 '21

Use the Rails helper `highlight` when showing search results

#ruby #rails #product #webdev

2 min read

matt swanson

Feb 12 '21

Magic Responsive Tables with Stimulus and IntersectionObserver

#rails #javascript #webdev

7 min read

matt swanson

Feb 12 '21

Hacktoberfest Recap: Open source Ruby/Rails work in 2020

#ruby #rails

5 min read

matt swanson

Feb 10 '21

Building GitHub-style Hovercards with StimulusJS and HTML-over-the-wire

#ruby #rails #javascript #webdev

10 min read

matt swanson

Jun 1 '20

Writing better Stimulus controllers

#javascript #rails #webdev #stimulus

10 min read

matt swanson

Apr 13 '20

Feature Flags: The simple way to de-stress production releases

#rails #ruby #webdev #agile

7 min read

matt swanson

Apr 14 '20

Spring Cleaning: Tidying up your codebase

#ruby #rails #javascript #yarn

8 min read

matt swanson

Apr 14 '20

Building a Rails CI pipeline with GitHub Actions

#ruby #rails #github #ci

8 min read

matt swanson

Apr 14 '20

Wrangling slow reports, large file exports, and long-running tasks in Rails with Active Job

#ruby #rails #webdev #sidekiq

16 min read

matt swanson

Apr 14 '20

Managing Rails schema and data migrations without losing your mind

#ruby #rails #webdev #postgres

6 min read

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