Sam Saffron

The number #1 productivity killer for me is the trivial inconvenience, it does not stop me from working… just makes my job very frustrating.

Analysis of performance issues in Ruby can often be fairly complex, in this post I cover a new technique you can use with MiniProfiler.

I just introduced the first smoke test for Discourse. Reasoning, techniques and lessons learned.

iOS6 is out, and with it an essentially broken maps app, here are my thoughts on this matter.

For the last few months we have been working on a version of MiniProfiler for Rails, here is the low-down

I am leaving Stack Exchange, why this happened and what is next?

Recently I embarked on a mission to find and build tools for dealing with broken links on the Stack Exchange network, here are some things I learned.

While preparing for my talk at Codemania I started filling my slides with links, clearly not something that scales. So, instead, here is a big list of interesting tools and resources that can help you journey through the murky waters of web performance.

Learn about a change introduced in the 2.6.39 kernel that has huge impact on your users' perceived web performance.

We are pushing a 2.0 public release of MiniProfiler, the following post describes most of the awesome changes.