Brad Herman
I'm an engineer on the Acquisition team at Hired, helping to build systems and test ideas that bring more people to the platform. I've got over 10 years experience building things with Ruby and Rails and previously founded the international on-demand massage company, Soothe. In my free time, I play gypsy jazz guitar and spend too much time traveling around the world to see jam bands.
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Hyphenated Routes in Rails
If you’ve ever looked at a blog post online, chances are the last thing you really paid any attention to was the URL structure. While the humans in front of screens around the world typically only care about how easy to remember a URL is, search ranking bots actually care about a lot more. The domain name, words in the URL, how those words relate to the actual content, and the length all...
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Finally Trying ActionCable
Hired is a predominately Rails based application – the “majestic monolith” as DHH would call...
Deploying Hundreds of Thousands of SEO Pages with a Few Lines of Code in Rails
When I joined Hired about 3 years ago, we basically had a Home page, About page, and not much...