Posts by Ethan Fertsch
Meet the Gnarnians: Ethan
In this series, we unravel the experiences and passions that drive our talented team. Meet Ethan, our resident beekeeper with a green thumb.
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from July 2023
At The Gnar we are always reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. ComparisonValidator Gone are the days when we need to write custom validators in Rails to determine if a start date begins before…
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It would be difficult to make it through a day without hearing, reading, or seeing something related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). While the concept of AI is nothing new, there is a new form of AI that has generated a lot of buzz: generative AI. In the simplest terms, generative AI is a system that…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from June 2023
At The Gnar we are always reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. Understanding TypeScript’s Newest Keyword: using One of the reasons I appreciate TypeScript’s place in the Node.js ecosystem is how they approach incoming JS…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from May 2023
At The Gnar we are always reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. Automatic Fetch Request Deduping with Next.js NextJS focuses a lot on optimization. So it was no surprise to learn about fetch request deduping.…
Read MoreGnarly News April 2023
The software development landscape is constantly changing. As a software consultancy, it’s our responsibility to keep our finger on the pulse of the industry. Here are some headlines that caught our attention recently. Rails World: A New Conference in 2023 Conference season is upon us! There have been many announcements as of late about conference…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from April 2023
At the Gnar we are always reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. CSS Supports Trigonometry Functions Trig functions in CSS make it easier to rotate objects and let us avoid using magic numbers. For example,…
Read MoreGnarly News March 2023
The software development landscape is constantly changing. As a software consultancy, it’s our responsibility to keep our finger on the pulse of the industry. Here are some headlines that caught our attention recently. Women Who Code Opens Nominations for 100 Technologists to Watch It’s Women’s History Month, and Women Who Code are opening nominations…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from March 2023
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. compareDocumentPosition Sorting is a common feature requirement for any list UI. It is straightforward enough to write a unit test for a custom sorting function, comparing its…
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