Hi, I’m Jared! I help maintain Ruby open source software like Bridgetown and Ruby2JS, and I work as a consultant with Whitefusion. Fullstack Ruby is my pet project. ☺ Find me on Twitter @jaredcwhite.
Latest Articles
Episode 5: Optimized for Programmer Happiness
Ruby is optimized for programmer happiness. What does that even mean? Which programmer? Whose happiness?

What Would It Take for Roda to Win?
Roda’s stated goals are simplicity, reliability, extensibility, and performance. Those are the very reasons why I have become such a Roda stan. It’s so malleable, you can take it in any number of directions in terms of architecture—particularly on the view side which is where my primary interest lies.
Episode 4: Design Patterns on the Frontend, History of MVVM, Web Components, and You
This is a subject far too little discussed from what I can tell, yet with a fundamental awareness and regular usage of design patterns, you can dramatically uplevel your frontend code.

Transform Your Data Object-Oriented Style with Formatters
I truly adore this design pattern. Once you know it, you start to see its usefulness across a wide variety of scenarios, codebases, and even programming languages.