The archive
Writing
Older posts on developer experience, API design, and payments. Mostly written between 2011 and 2018; kept here as a reference. New writing increasingly happens on the Gr4vy blog.
2025
- Building resilience into 3DS: How Gr4vy uses multi-provider redundancy to secure higher approval rates and reliabilityGr4vy29 Oct
- The new developer frontier: How automated SDKs are reshaping the future of paymentsGr4vy19 Sept
- How Real-Time Account Updater help merchants rescue revenue and reduce declinesGr4vy03 Sept
- Apple Opens the Door to External Payments — Gr4vy Adds Support for Payment LinksGr4vy21 May
2018
2017
- Work Betta is partnering with Hoopy!04 Dec
- The 7 Sins of Developer Experience10 Nov
- The Documentation Maturity Model16 May
- Developer Onboarding: GitHub12 Apr
- The Developer Experience Journey: Exploration12 Mar
- Understanding Developers23 Feb
- How I got my document certifying permanent residence, or EEA(PR)16 Feb
- Developer Experience: GitHub READMEs07 Feb
- Stop using bullet points03 Feb
- Developer Experience: Emails26 Jan
- OnePlus 3T Review16 Jan
- Developer Onboarding: Twilio09 Jan
- The cost of using ZipCar05 Jan
2016
- Developer Experience lessons from LEGO14 Dec
- Building an Interactive Delivery Notifications System using Express and the Nexmo SMS API31 Oct
- Using LetsEncrypt with Sinatra on Heroku28 Oct
- Developer Onboarding: Stripe16 Oct
- Developer Onboarding: Pusher31 Aug
- Developer Onboarding: SendGrid28 Aug
- Building a Customer Service Chat App with Rails 5 Action Cable and SMS18 Aug
- Building a Voice Alerts Broadcast System using Sinatra and the Nexmo Text-to-Speech API21 Jun
- Two Factor Authentication in Rails with Devise and Nexmo Verify07 Jun
- Survey: Hackathons and Open Source10 May
- Minimum Viable Samples10 Apr
- Anker travel gear08 Apr
- Moving on...09 Mar
- Namespacing views by subdomain in Rails15 Feb
- Namespacing and scoping your Rails monolith14 Feb
2015
2014
2013
2012
- Some notes on Puppet12 Nov
- Hacks / Products - A discussion on responsibility12 Nov
- On PhoneGap/Cordova and cross platform mobile development04 Jun
- OpenCodeCamp - Where the best of HackDays and BarCamps come together08 May
- What I miss about HackDays29 Apr
- Tech on my radar19 Apr
- Add terms & conditions validation to Omniauth Identity12 Apr
- A new blog07 Apr