Howdy, I'm Joel Christiansen.
I'm a 38-year-old independent Ruby/Rails developer and employment lawyer in the Pacific Northwest USA. My compass guides me toward creativity, openness, and community.
Tutorials / Code
How to Build the World’s Simplest Personal Computer: Raspberry Pi
Few outside of the tech world know you can have a working computer for under $150. Here's how.
CSS Grid Layout with Responsive Breakpoints
Front end layouts with —display: grid and SCSS mixins for responsive breakpoints
Roam Research Shortcuts - A Lightweight Guide
List and video walkthrough of Roam Research keyboard shortcuts
Dynamic Autocomplete in Rails 6
Step-by-step tutorial to create an autocomplete field that returns suggestions from a postgresql database
Ajax for Ruby on Rails Forms
Speed and modularity with data-remote forms and JavaScript responses in Ruby on Rails
Legal Tech
Build a Trial Court Records Scraper
How to create a Ruby application that programmatically harvests information from the Oregon eCourt Information (OECI) system
GitHub: Amendments to Oregon's Noncompete Statute ↗
A GitHub repository detailing all amendments to Oregon's primary noncompete statute (ORS 653.295) since its enactment in 1977
Open Source Employment & Labor Contracts
A tech-forward approach for improving employees' bargaining power now
Thoughts
Vim: How Long Will It Take to Learn?
Approaching the classic text editor in a sustainable light
Portland's Bicycle Network: Connecting Community
Some thoughts on infrastructure, culture, and people from a decade of riding