Sep 28, 2025

September Baseball is Pretty Good Too

October baseball might be the best baseball but September’s been pretty good too. The Yankees bullpen finally got it together and they made an exciting run for the division that came down to the final day. My late uncle’s Reds are also in the playoffs. I don’t mind that it came at the expense of Juan Soto and the Mets. But the best story has to be the Guardians coming from 15 1/2 games back to win the division.

Nov 11, 2024

Interesting Times Indeed...

Interesting Times indeed. I’ve been working more, and feeling rather worn down in general as the dark months settle in. I’m having a similar experience with writing as I do about playing the bass. There’s a desire to contribute to the conversation but an uncertainty on what to say.

Sep 18, 2024

I'm back!

Jul 1, 2021

Gems, Plugins, Engines, and Mountable Engines: 4 ways to make a Gem.

Every time I go to make a new ruby gem, I need to look up the specific way to get started. Here’s a summary of the different options.

Jun 1, 2021

A gem whose name is the longest part of the code 😅

I just released a gem. It’s a little extension for ActiveRecord associations that provides a module_name option. This can be used to DRY up definitions to namespaced models.

May 20, 2021

I Has a Website!!!

Hi 👋, I'm Rafe. I'm a Ruby developer and I live in Vermont and I do Vermont things coax plants out of the ground 4 months of the year, haul firewood inside the other 8, and complain about slow internet service year round. I started this blog to help me think through stuff. Thanks for reading my whiteboard!