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Hello, I'm Davis.

You may know me from my time at Pivotal Labs, where I helped build Rails and mobile apps, or from co-writing Jasmine, a JavaScript testing framework. This is where I write about software engineering, leadership, and occasional digressions.

Recent Posts

On Interviewing and Hiring Software Engineers

How to avoid the common traps when hiring engineers

10 January 2025 · about a 7 minute read

Synology on Rails Part VI: An Improved Docker Registry

Adding UI to the Docker Registry now running on the Synology.

25 September 2024 · about a 1 minute read

Synology on Rails Part V: Automate the Rest

Thanks to Luke Winikates, the rest of the deploy is now automated.

6 September 2024 · about a 1 minute read

Series

How I Obsidian

All the tips, configuration, and even a few tricks for using Obsidian for your note taking.

The Continuous Delivery Test

A series about validating your software development team and get better at Continuous Delivery.

Synology on Rails

How to get a Rails app running in a container on your Synology NAS.

Interestings for Iterators

Links from around the Web that Software Iterators may enjoy.