https://therealadam.com/2020/01/06/training-amp-learning.html
Training & Learning | Adam Keys is Thinking
A thing I’ve learned from weightlifting (also from Destiny, but that’s a whole other thing), is the value of showing up several times a week and putting in the...
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https://therealadam.com/2012/06/12/they-cant-all.html
They can't all be winners | Adam Keys is Thinking
My Tuesdays typically look like this: write/hack for my weblog, work, lunch, work, short run, and then hack with other Austin nerds at Houndstooth Coffee. As...
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https://therealadam.com/2012/02/15/on-rolling-ones.html
On rolling one's own metrics kit | Adam Keys is Thinking
On instrumenting Rails, custom aggregators, bespoke dashboards, and reinventing the wheel; 37signals documents their own metrics infrastructure. They’re doing...
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https://therealadam.com/2010/10/12/bundler-not-as.html
Bundler, not as bad as they say | Adam Keys is Thinking
Of all the new moving parts in Rails 3, the one I see the most grousing over is Bundler. This is not surprising, as its a big part of how your application...
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https://therealadam.com/2015/07/15/what-about-event.html
What about event sourcing? | Adam Keys is Thinking
I was chatting about Event Sourced data models with a pal last week. He is really taken by the idea and excited that perhaps its a “next big thing” in data...
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Now witness the power of this fully functional domicile! | Adam Keys is Thinking
About a year ago, our garage door was not feeling well. It wouldn’t go down on it’s own. To close it required my loving embrace. Specifically, I had to lean...
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https://therealadam.com/2011/04/03/the-joy-of.html
The joy of logs | Adam Keys is Thinking
Logs Are Streams, Not Files: But a better conceptual model is to treat logs as time-ordered streams: there is no beginning or end, but rather an ongoing,...
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https://therealadam.com/2021/04/29/working-directly-amp.html
Working, directly & small | Adam Keys is Thinking
Omar Rizwan recollects that one of the original selling points of React was that you could consolidate all the HTML, CSS, and JS for a single component in one...
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https://therealadam.com/2024/02/28/you-learn-faster.html
You learn faster by falling down | Adam Keys is Thinking
Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: The “self-belief” model of motivation assumes that if you acknowledge the possibility of failure, then you’ll be too...
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https://therealadam.com/2024/10/21/throw-more-books.html
Throw more books | Adam Keys is Thinking
Simon Sarris, Reading Well: You should start many books and complete few. You should never feel beholden to completing them, there are simply too many...
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https://therealadam.com/2020/03/28/this-weekend-im.html
This weekend, I’m revisiting some … | Adam Keys is Thinking
This weekend, I’m revisiting some of David Perell’s writing on writing, thinking, and aiming high. My favorites: Why You Should Write, Learn Like an Athlete,...
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https://therealadam.com/2023/10/23/build-for-the.html
Build for the excitement of building | Adam Keys is Thinking
Nice Tietz-Sokolskaya, Write more “useless” software: When you spend all day working on useful things, doing the work, it’s easy for that spark of joy to go...
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https://therealadam.com/2012/12/22/smiling-rappers.html
Smiling rappers | Adam Keys is Thinking
The rap game doesn't have to be all posturing and diss tracks. We need more smiling rappers.
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https://therealadam.com/2013/04/12/look-up-every.html
Look up every once in a while! | Adam Keys is Thinking
Sometimes, I feel conditioned never to look beyond the first ten feet of the earth. Watch where you're going, don't run into things, avoid being eaten by...
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https://therealadam.com/2021/05/08/planning-focuses-our.html
Planning focuses our ideas | Adam Keys is Thinking
Planning is essential. But, not too much. Mostly in the next 90-day window (with apologies to Michael Pollan). Humans are, with few exceptions, awful at...
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https://therealadam.com/2024/07/06/i-switched-notes.html
I switched notes apps (and back) (again) (and here’s what I learned) | Adam Keys is Thinking
Yet again, the grass was not greener. I did learn a little more of simplicity-by-reduction. I asked myself, what Obsidian plugins or idioms am I using because...
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https://therealadam.com/2026/04/08/gitspice-stacked-diffs-but-without.html
git-spice – stacked diffs, but … | Adam Keys is Thinking
git-spice – stacked diffs, but without another (SaaS) tool to provision and pay for. Excellent ergonomics, if you’re comfortable with the git CLI as-is. I’ve...
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https://therealadam.com/2008/08/01/thor-and-agility.html
Thor and agility | Adam Keys is Thinking
Watching Thor at his agility classes is really interesting. It’s fun to see the dogs constantly looking up to their person to see what jump or obstacle to go...
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https://therealadam.com/slashes/
Slash | Adam Keys is Thinking
In the tradition of slash pages: /about /blogroll /now And, just because: /leading
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Telling a joke, trying to, or making a joke of myself. Engineering lead and full-stack developer. Porsches, Disney parks, pub quiz, Star Wars, Destiny, music,...
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https://therealadam.com/about/
About | Adam Keys is Thinking
I’m Adam Keys 👋🏻 I build stuff! Leader, writer, developer. Blog / Newsletter / Mastodon / Twitter / BlueSky / GitHub / LinkedIn 📮🗓️ Contact If chatting...
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https://therealadam.com/2019/05/28/these-are-computers.html
These are computers, I know this | Adam Keys is Thinking
An encouraging thing happened to me last year. I was faced with a mystery involving how a bit of application code was interacting with ActiveRecord. It seemed...
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https://therealadam.com/2016/06/19/a-few-qualities.html
A few qualities of mature developers | Adam Keys is Thinking
What is technical leadership? Per Mature Developers, it's a lot of things. My favorites: So one of the first and most important qualities of mature developers...
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https://therealadam.com/2009/03/19/using-haskell-for.html
Using Haskell for awesome | Adam Keys is Thinking
I’ve joked that Haskell is all about reading other people’s theses, but you can do practical things with it too. His quick explanation of monads is pretty good...
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https://therealadam.com/2017/10/02/categorizing-and-understanding.html
Categorizing and understanding magical code | Adam Keys is Thinking
Sometimes, programmers like to disparage “magical code”. They say magical code is causing their bugs, magical code is offensive to use, magical code is harder...
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https://therealadam.com/2024/01/12/weekend-in-portland.html
Weekend in Portland | Adam Keys is Thinking
Day one, travel day. Air travel is fine. Green carpets are green. It’s cold and dreary, as expected. There may be snow. We persevere.
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https://therealadam.com/2018/12/27/who-has-two.html
Who has two thumbs and … | Adam Keys is Thinking
Who has two thumbs and is pretty excited for Enumerable#to_h and the proc composition/chaining stuff in Ruby 2.6! 👍👍 anamaria.martinezgomez.name/2018/12/2…
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https://therealadam.com/2026/04/06/when-youre-stuck-or-uninspired.html
When you’re stuck or uninspired, … | Adam Keys is Thinking
When you’re stuck or uninspired, reach for your spark file: This is why for the past eight years or so I’ve been maintaining a single document where I keep all...
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Telling a joke, trying to, or making a joke of myself. Engineering lead and full-stack developer. Porsches, Disney parks, pub quiz, Star Wars, Destiny, music,...
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https://therealadam.com/2022/01/25/cool-things-to.html
Cool things to do with your spaceship besides launching billionaires | Adam Keys is Thinking
Fancy some near-term imagination on the opportunities the re-commercialization of space presents us? Yes, have some! Science upside for Starship: It is,...
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https://therealadam.com/2014/01/28/rockets-and-startups.html
Rockets and startups | Adam Keys is Thinking
A venture-funded startup is sort of like a space program. Space programs don’t build airplanes that fly in flat, predictable, safe trajectories. They shouldn’t...
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https://therealadam.com/2017/04/18/stored-procedure-modern.html
Stored Procedure Modern | Adam Keys is Thinking
The idea behind Facebook’s Relay is to write declarative queries, put them next to the user interaction code that uses them, and compose those queries. It’s a...
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https://therealadam.com/2023/07/04/use-swift-playgrounds.html
Use Swift Playgrounds to sketch ideas | Adam Keys is Thinking
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https://therealadam.com/2009/06/01/how-did-sql.html
How did SQL get so popular? | Adam Keys is Thinking
Many developers, especially of the younger generation, dislike relational databases and their business-partner, SQL. It is regarded by some as the new assembly...
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https://therealadam.com/2012/03/30/a-presenter-is.html
A Presenter is a signal | Adam Keys is Thinking
When someone says “your view or API layer needs presenters”, it’s easy to get confused. Presenter has become wildcard jargon for a lot of different sorts of...
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