Jared Norman

Not actually grumpy.

Computers bend to my will.

I'm Jared Norman, a software consultant, open-source maintainer, and member of the Solidus core team. I believe that the software industry is short-sighted and fails to capitalize on its own best ideas. My company, Super Good Software, helps organizations learn from the past and build software more effectively.

Latest Post

What if service objects were just Procs?

Service objects, a popular design pattern in the Ruby on Rails community, are analogous to higher-order functions, and we can demonstrate that more clearly by refactoring one into a Proc without changing its API.

August 03, 2023

Popular Posts

Adding Parameterized Layouts to phlex-rails

Out of the box, phlex-rails currently doesn't support parameterized layouts. I found a quick way to hack support in.

I've got some plans for 2023

This year was a strange year, so I've been thinking about where to put my energy to distract from the ongoing collapse of civilization as we know it (or whatever.)

December 20, 2022

I just learned two interesting Ruby edge-case behaviours

Kevin Newton's explanations of how YARV works alerted me to a couple of edge cases in Ruby that I'd never thought about.

December 07, 2022

Here are my TDD on the Shoulders of Giants talk slides

RubyConf Mini is over and my talk went well. Once the videos are posted, I'll do a quick write up about the talk, but for now here are the slides.

November 19, 2022