From January 2014 to the summer of 2016 I worked remotely from Seville for CookiesHQ, a small Ruby on Rails agency in Bristol founded by Nic and Nathalie Alpi. It was my first remote job for a company abroad, and I was their only remote worker at the time.
Besides building client projects, from startup MVPs to bespoke CRMs, I was one of the regular writers on the company’s technical blog: 31 posts between January 2014 and July 2016, two of them featured in Ruby Weekly (#209 and #212).
In October 2021 CookiesHQ was acquired by one of its clients, Amba Health and Care, and the company was dissolved in May 2023. The website stayed up, unmaintained, for a couple more years, until it went offline in the summer of 2025 and took the blog with it. For each article I used to publish a short post here pointing to it, and all of those turned into dead links. Luckily, the Internet Archive kept a copy of every one of them, so those posts now point to the archived copies instead. Now with agents, compiling the links to the archive is easy peasy and the fix takes almost no time. What a time to be a live.
I learned a lot from Nic, Nathalie, Rob, Gemma, Dennis and all the clients I collaborated with; the foundations of my “Rails persona” was shaped by those years!! :D Going back through these posts with the help of AI agents and bringing them back has been a trip down memory lane I’ll cherish <3
Browse all 31 CookiesHQ posts, from January 2014 to July 2016.