rubyist and backend engineer at meedan, a non-profit working against global misinformation. past work in government benefits at 18F and code for america, pivotal labs, and other consultancies.
I've been working in ruby and rails since 2012; using this account to keep up with the developer community.
also less work-y at:
@christa - main, personal account
@christa - SF politics, mostly
| main account | @christa |
| website | https://christa.town |
| pronouns | she/they |
come work with me!
my workplace, Meedan (https://meedan.com), is hiring for a junior backend software engineer. we're a small, distributed not-for-profit working globally to address misinformation, with an eng team of ~13 people.
our work is open source; here's the main repo we work in: https://github.com/meedan/check
resume review begins dec 5. I'm one of the other backend RoR engineers; happy to answer questions!
Just a reminder than you are not writing tests only for yourself but also for other developer who might join your project. So please do write also unit tests along with integration tests so that when someone wants to understand some edge cases in the code will have fast feedback.
the blog post was worst than I thought. I haven’t heard from the “well maybe our companies look like this because we’re the best, actually” in a long while. embarrassing, really.
I remember when the first of his anti-politics or whatever screed came to my attention a few years ago I was actually worried about how it might impact the Ruby / Rails ecosystem and community. I’ve been happy with how there’s a vocal rejection and hope it meaningfully continues
Lucian Ghinda