Hi.
I'm Patrick White. I'm software developer and Citizen of the Internet based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I currently work for @Pay, a local startup that provides fundraising software to small nonprofits. We're a Rails shop and I work across the stack, but I lead up our Stripe integration (we use Connected Accounts) and manage our deployments (moving from EC2 to Heroku). I love Ruby but have also done large projects in C# and Javascript.
I've done a number of entrepreneurial projects of my own including DansCourses.com, a tech education website and very successful YouTube channel (although most of the credit goes to my business partner, Dan Alberghetti) and some "public records websites", as I call them, including CaliforniaBirthIndex.org and TexasMarriageRecords.org.
Short Essays
- A Blog Needs Two Things: An Audience and a Topic
- A Forgotten Prerequisite to Starting a Business: Deciding Who You Care About
- Build Your Product by Marketing It First
- Citizen of the Internet
- How to Make More Money as a Software Developer I: Get a Raise (by Playing Politics?!)
- Make More Money as a Software Developer II: Side Projects (Content Businesses!)
- The Joy of Jekyll
- The Most Important Part of Starting a Business: Choosing your Customers
- Write the Obvious: Blogging and Beginner's Mind