Toby Osbourn

Tech Stack Toby uses most often

Right now Toby is most interested in the following languages;

• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• JavaScript
• CSS

He has a firm grounding in HTML, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Git, Jekyll, and more. He can turn his hand to most things.

Toby on Social Media

If you want to chat or connect on social media, here are the best options;

• Twitter
• LinkedIn

Articles Toby has written

• Things our micro business does
  Here are some of the things that we do as a micro business
• Saving time with TextExpander and URLs
  How I save time jumping between URLs on various browsers
• How to turn on invisible characters in TextMate
  A quick guide to turning on invisible characters in TextMate
• Cut and Paste in Vim
  A quick and easy guide on how to cut and paste using Vim
• Upgrading WordPress plugins on Lightsail with wp-cli
  How we update WordPress plugins on a Lightsail/Bitnami install using wp-cli
• Testing Routes with RSpec
  Testing routes can give you more confidence and help drive application development; here is how to do it with RSpec
• How to ignore Bullet in RSpec tests
  Using Bullet during a test can pick up mistakes but also has false negatives; here is an easy way to ignore them
• How we used Nokogiri to fix a sizing issue in YouTube's oEmbed
  At some point, one of our calls to YouTube's oEmbed endpoint was returning videos way too small; we fixed in in our Rails application by using Nokogiri
• How to comment Rails migrations
  We recently learned how you could apply comments to your migrations in Rails
• Four tools I use to keep projects on track
  Incomplete projects are the worst; here I discuss my workflow and tools to try and complete a project as soon as possible