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Building products, coaching, and sharing insights along the way.

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Coding Challenge Sausage Goes Toptal with Ruby

I became a developer freelancer for the first time four years ago. After getting my profile up to Upwork and codementor, I thought it would be easy to get to

Your Road To a Top Developer Contract

WTF is a top developer contract!? A top contract is relative to each one's situation and current preferences. Depending on where you are and what your goals are, your dream

1-on-1 TDD Premium Workshop

One year into my computer science studies, I had an interview at a big tech company where I talked to a tech-savvy product owner, a former software engineer. He asked

Meet Rich

Sometimes it's hard to know where to find me. Even for myself. So here's an up-to-date list. RailsConf 2023 Slides: https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0c4Di7kvGM9cDkUnVrfuaBbkw#FINAL_-_a_picture_

Memory Training

Developers are just human. They forget. But in what other craft or industry, other than writing code, might you look at your work from a month ago and not recognize

Guided Coding AKA Mentoring

I'm a part of a community where guided breathing is a thing. Basically, someone breathes in a certain way and you repeat, reaping the meditative benefits. So if there's a

Thanks folks!

I am blown away by the supportive nature of Rich. His second nature is to be available and extremely helpful, also in between the sessions. He explains stuff very fast and understandable. He asks about personal blocks and helps to resolve them. He creates a warm, friendly experimental learning atmosphere. I could not wish for a better mentor on my way becoming employed as web developer.

Dave Matalik

Dave Matalik, a soul traveller and self-baked React developer.
On Richard you can count on. Since we first met in 2019, we had literally hundreds of different talks about tech, the web and business in general. When we work together on client projects, he always brings valuable ideas and creative approaches to it. May it be coding, QA or brainstorming - he is very precise and pays attention to details which others tend to oversee. This professional skillset alongside with his very positive personality is what makes collaborating with Richard so enjoyable.

The incredible Tobi Steffen, master of LE4F.AGENCY
Rich accompanied me from knowing absolutely nothing about Ruby on Rails to releasing my first production app in less than 6 months. He's been a fantastic mentor and he's also just a great person to know and talk to.

The great and glorious Florian Felsing 🙏