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Hey, I’m Jeff Morhous

I'm senior software engineer in Health Tech where I make web apps with a focus on reliability. I also write programming tutorials and other technical content for developers at SyntaxPen.

Redefining Career Specialization

Just becoming the best programmer is too hard. Becoming the best ruby programmer is hard, but not as hard. Becoming the best Ruby on Rails backend developer is a little easier...

Software Engineers Need a Brag Doc

A brag doc is a place where you keep track of (and ideally show off) the work you're proud of. You can call it what you...

Block Ads for Your Entire Home Network with a Raspberry Pi

Run a DNS sinkhole on a Raspberry Pi to block ads, including the Raspberry Pi 5 (updated for 2024!)...

Eloquent Ruby In 10 Minutes

Over the last few month's I've been diving much deeper into Ruby, going through the famous Eloquent Ruby book...

How to Make a belongs_to Relationship in Rails

ActiveRecord makes it really easy to tie models in a Rails app to...