These are projects and courses I’ve made.
Some of them have options to buy things, some don’t. Some are educational for others, some are educational just for me. The thread is that these are finished products and can be discussed/evaluated as such.
I try to be biased towards finishing projects. To that end, here’s a list of projects and products I’ve built.
This page is inspired by Tom Critchlow’s The Importance of Launching
Intermediate Ruby #
Are you an early-career software developer? Working on getting your first job, or you’ve been working for less than two years? I’ll help you level up your software development skills.
👉 https://intermediateruby.com/
How to Integrate Stripe and a Static Site #
Have you ever wanted to add a very basic payment integration for something you’re selling on your static website?
I sure have, and I found it particularly challenging, especially with multiple products/tiers (I.E. selling a $29 and $49 thing).
So, I figured it out, and you can sample the course, or buy it, here:
👉 How to Integrate Stripe and a static site
A Runbook for Upgrading Your Parent’s Junky Old Laptop to a Chromebook #
I spent many, many hours doing research on how to upgrade my mother-in-law’s laptop from an old nearly-unusable Windows PC to a Chromebook.
Why’d you want her on a Chromebook, Josh?
Because my wife and I are her primary tech support team, and she lives two time-zones away, and she often is frustrated by her computer, from printing things, to downloading attachments, and navigating the internet enough to follow along in the lives of her kids and grandkids.
A Chromebook has a very easy-to-use “remote in” feature, so when she has a problem, she knows to click a button in the favorites bar, read me the code, and now I can see her screen and control her computer. It’s so easy to show her how to do things with this set of tools.
I’d lost many, many hours to trying to help her with poorer tools before.
👉 A Runbook for Upgrading Your Parent’s Junky Old Laptop to a Chromebook
Intermediate Ruby Obstacle Course #
This repo contains a collection of “obstacle courses” that are laser-focused on quickly leveling up very discrete skills.
👉 Intermediate Ruby Obstacle Course
Currently, the only finished obstacle course is Web Scraping with Nokogiri Obstacle Course
The information contained within the obstacle course is the “meat and potatoes” of how I built the next item:
Discover a random personal blog from Hacker News #
Evidence that this project does exactly what I hoped:
Every time I visit it, I find a delightful personal blog that I otherwise never would have found.
👉 Discover a random personal blog from Hacker News
Sidekiq and Background Jobs for Beginners #
I cross-posted this article to Medium a while ago, and it gets a surprising amount of SEO-driven traffic. I’d like to expand this article into a short course at some point.
👉 Sidekiq and Background Jobs for Beginners
An 8-part Guide to Preparing for Turing’s Backend Program #
Dozens of Turing students have said that this guide has been the reason they’ve been successful at Turing. That means, conservatively, this guide has delivered tens of thousands of dollars of value. A slightly more expansive definition of value (inclusive of opportunity cost and time) means this guide has delivered hundreds of thousands of dollars of value.
I’m proud of it. It’s exactly what I wish I’d had before I attended Turing.