👋🏻 Hey! I’m Elise and I use she/her pronouns. I’m a Rubyist, cyclist, and trans woman living in Denver, CO.
I’m the host of The Ruby On Rails Podcast.
I’ve worked in the security, payments, and consumer electronics industries. View my full resume here.
In my spare time, I enjoy cycling, cooking, and reading.
I keep a list of the tech I use here.
While making a series of changes to my dotfiles this weekend, I decided to retire my aging install scripts in favor of using a ready made dotfiles manager. I chose to use Dotbot. Reader, let me tell you: Dotbot is really nice! Dotbot is a little bit like ansible, but way lighter weight. It uses a YAML file to configure how your dotfiles should be linked in your home folder...
I might be getting old. The other day, I was chatting with a coworker and waxing nostalgic about various tools and methods that I miss. The conversation had a whole "back in my day" vibe. Which, you know, I think I should just lean into at this point. Anyway, we started talking about Cucumber and made me a little sad...
I'm standing at my desk writing this blog post and all I can think about is how great this keyboard feels. I'm falling in love with this keyboard: the buttery smooth travel of the keys, the satisfying thock as my fingers hit the end of travel. For the first time, I enjoy typing on a linear switch...