@avinyc
Engineer, educator, and entrepreneur that loves building products.
I'm an engineer, educator, and entrepreneur that has been building digital products for over 20 years with experience in startups, education, technical training, and developer ecosystems.
I founded Flatiron School in NYC where I taught thousands of people how to code. Previously, I was the founder of Designer Pages. Currently I'm the Chief Product Officer at Revature.
Contracting, mentoring, side projects.
Dec 18, 2025 · 6 min read · You are iterating on a design. Maybe you are redesigning your dashboard. Maybe you are trying three different layouts for a landing page. Maybe Claude just gave you four variations of a pricing table and you need to pick one. Here is the problem: eve...
Join discussionFeb 15, 2024 · 7 min read · I'm trying to improve my design engineering and have been practicing and looking for opportunities to flex and grow. One of my favorite new techniques is View Transitions, a simple way using CSS to animate transitions between states of the view, whet...
KKaran commentedFeb 5, 2024 · 5 min read · We're going to build a common UI pattern: a sortable, paginated table using the power of Ruby on Rails and Turbo Frames. Sortable Table Headers The first step is to create the sortable table headers as simple links. I wrote a few helper methods in Ru...
RMACEdward and 2 more commentedJan 25, 2024 · 6 min read · A common pattern is having a search form that filters a list of items. That's what we're going to build now with a minimal amount of code using Turbo Frames and Stimulus. Here's what it will look like in the end. We've got a bunch of jobs, each with...
SMStefanos and 1 more commentedJan 14, 2024 · 4 min read · Another common UI pattern is a slide over. This is a modal that slides in from the side of the screen. It's really easy it turns out to implement this with a Turbo Frame. Let's do it. Step 1: The Slide Over Turbo Frame First, we need to create a Tur...
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