Chris Zempel's Blog

Hi. I'm a software developer based out of St. Louis, MO. I work at Aha! (opens in new tab).

Archive

1. ICE Defense 20 Jan 2026 guide
2. ICE Card (Print) 20 Jan 2026 guide
3. COVID Guidelines 01 Nov 2020 guide
4. How to Choose What to Read 21 Jul 2020 guide
5. On Making More Expressive Frameworks 23 May 2020 anecdote
6. Segmenting Software Development Work by Demand 29 Mar 2020 anecdote
7. Solving the Wizard Problem 13 Mar 2020 guide
8. Snippet - Nifty Way of Text -> Data 27 Aug 2019 snippet rust
9. Why Two-Way Data Binding Is(n't) Bad 10 Feb 2018 anecdote
10. How to Debug 29 Jan 2017 guide
11. Coffee isn't Complicated 24 Jan 2017 guide
12. React in Rails - The Gotchas 12 Nov 2016 guide
13. My Favorite Book of All Time 07 Nov 2016 anecdote
14. Junior vs Senior 28 Sep 2015 thought-experiment
15. The Development Behind InvisibleGirlfriend 06 Aug 2015 anecdote
16. What is Critical Thinking? 08 Jun 2015 thought-experiment
17. The Five Core Activities of a Software Dev 22 Nov 2013 launchcode
18. Learning to Think Like A Developer 13 Nov 2013 launchcode
19. Working at Efeqdev 28 Oct 2013 launchcode
20. Test Your Might - How I’m Getting up to Speed 17 Oct 2013 launchcode
21. How I Launched My Development Career in Nine Months 11 Oct 2013 launchcode