Raphael Spencer

Developer

Raphael loves learning bizarre programming languages such as Forth, fundamental computer science, and questioning the notion of what programming really is. He's actively curious, involving himself in challenging projects, learning from and teaching others, and collecting bits of knowledge where he can. He also volunteers his time at the Fox-Wolf Watershed cleanup and for Northeast Wisconsin Technical College on the scholarship review committee when he's not spending time with his family. He can go by Ray, Rae, Rafi, Riff-Raff, Raul, or Fael but only on Sundays from 3-7am.
<h3>Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."</h3><h5>Carl Jung</h5><p>‍</p>

Their latest articles

How to Return Early From Elixir

Learn how you can implement the “Return Early” paradigm in Elixir pattern matching and guards to clarify the intent of your functions.

How to Deliver Value During Pair Programming - My Story

When I first started working at Headway, I noticed that some of my pair programming sessions were better than others. At first, this was a mystery to me, but the picture eventually became clear. Through my daily practice of pair programming here at Headway, I made different discoveries and observations which I will share in this post.

Helix: Improve the Performance of Rails with Rust

With Rust, you can do low-level number-crunching and bit-by-bit processing, while enjoying memory safety and concurrency features. With Helix, you can use your Rust code inside of a Rails project.

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