Hello, I'm Zayne.

I'm a software engineer based in NYC. I like building things often with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and exploring new technologies.

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Zayne
I design and build software products.

Most of the stuff I build starts with me needing something that doesn't exist or just tinkering with an idea. Sometimes that leads to apps that I use in my daily workflows, other times it's guides documenting engineering problems I figured out through trial and error.

Conductor - FFmpeg Wrapper for MacOS

CONDUCTOR

An FFmpeg wrapper for MacOS that converts and compresses videos, images, audio files, and GIFs with a simple interface

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SandCrab - AWS S3 GUI for MacOS

SANDCRAB

An AWS S3 client for MacOS that lets you manage your S3 buckets and files through a drag-and-drop interface

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Recent Posts

Thoughts on software development, building products, and learning new technologies.

PostgreSQL and SQL Tips For Rails Developers

Rails can make it easy to avoid learning how to interact with your postgreSQL database or use sequel. But learning these things can give you a competitive edge. In this post, we'll look at some tricks to interact with postgreSQL for your rails apps.

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How to Build a React App with Ruby on Rails

In this post, we are going to dive into building your first react app with ruby on rails. We will be using the webpacker gem, which will let us manage everything together in a single app, instead of creating a separated react app and rails api.

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