Tell us about your career journey. I graduated from SUNY Stony Brook with a BS in Mathematics. In my final year of studies, I started to form an interest in software development and took some...

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...

Writing clear, understandable code for complex systems can be challenging. In this post, we'll explore the concept of self-documenting code as a technique for writing clearer...

Amazon Redshift is a great tool for data warehousing. At Hired, we use it in combination with Looker to provide business insights and internal dashboards for many of our internal teams....

ActiveRecord models are at the heart of many Rails applications, so having a fast and convenient way to create or access instances of ActiveRecord models in tests is important. Fixtures and...

We finished our yearly hackathon recently and wanted to share what worked well, what we plan to change, and what we built. We decided to go low-process this year, and used a simple shared...