Kyle Ramirez
Chicago, IL
I'm interested in storytelling, projects that better people's lives, meaningful human interactions, good design, workflow and product improvement, and delivering new technology to the public at large. Good ideas keep me up at night.
Currently I'm working on the maps team at ForeFlight.
DISCLAIMER Before you read on, please be aware that the possibility that many of us are being duped in a mass delusion propagated by a elaborate misinformation campaign/experiment/hoax is much higher than the possibility of the following details equaling the above conclusion. Having said that, I’ll do my best to source every bit of premise
Updated Part 141 Flight Schools on this list This is a collection of colleges and universities in the United States with FAA-approved Part 141 flight school programs that accept the GI Bill, based on the Institutional Authority List published by the Federal Aviation Administration. Graduates of these schools can become eligible to apply for the
I want to share my experience in getting a tailwheel endorsement, what I learned about flying, and about the general aviation community. If you’ve been thinking about getting your tailwheel endorsement, hopefully my story can help separate the facts from myths, and help you know what to expect along the way. Not long after I
One of the issues I often face, whether I’m optimizing a page for performance or when gutting old pages is the need to get only the used CSS on a page. Chrome has a tool which can show you how much of your JS and CSS is “used,” which is tremendously helpful. It can tell
ReactiveRecord is a JavaScript library I created which provides a framework for interacting with JSON APIs in React. It’s sort of an amalgamation of features from ActiveRecord (part of Ruby on Rails) and Mongoose. To get started using ReactiveRecord or read the documentation, you can begin here: https://reactiverecord.com
Weev is a super minimal real-time anonymous collaborative text editor I created as a fun experiment. Everything about the design of Weev was meant to emulate WordPerfect 5.1. I also designed the site to not require any information about a user in order to start creating documents or collaborating with others. It’s sort of like
BetterSession is a web analytics platform I created that allows people to start a conversation with their site visitors while monitoring site activity like a video feed.
Cardigan is a project I started building in 2016 that blends e-commerce and a personal touch. It’s my goal to offer a way to send greeting cards to people in the mail all through a web interface, including shopping and personalization, stamping and sending.
MySQL has the ability to retrieve a list of rows sorted by a manually defined order through the use of the FIELD() function. But what does that look like when using ActiveReceord’s Arel to compose SQL queries? If you’re very committed to using Arel’s design-specific language, there exists a way to use it for this