Making Dia

QA Environments v2

A technical overview of the second iteration of individual testing environments at…

How We Deploy Software 2.0

I’m gonna be bold here and say: Unequivocally, the single most important thing a software development team does…

My Everywhere / Nowhere Office

As I write this, it’s 65° and sunny. I’m in a park near my house, leeching off of a donut shop’s WiFi…

A Little Refactoring Goes a Long Way

How we changed our CSV architecture to improve readability…

Testing CSV Files in Rails (on the fly)

AMP on Rails

At Dia, we’re constantly trying to improve our user experience and a big part of it is serving our pages faster to customers with…

How Dia Does Distributed

Anyone who has met me knows I passionately believe a flexible remote culture is the way of the future. My passion comes in part because it is the future I’m building for myself. I could pontificate for hours about the whys and what-fors but that, my friends, is a different topic for a…

When Rollback is not the Solution but the Problem