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.
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.