Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade. Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more. You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

I extracted an ActiveJob batching utility from AngryBuilding github.com/RStankov/Ang...

Introducing On Rails. A New Podcast. rubyonrails.org/2025/6/25/on...

One of the biggest "AI" powered productivity boosters, started using recently, is CleanShotX Capture text (OCR). I just click CMD+6 pick and area form my screen and get the text there into the clipboard.

I'm seriously impressed with the new ChatGPT image generator. I gave him couple screenshots of sales slides. Asked it to generate icons for couple of features. Then change background and replace $ with € in the icons and result were quite good.

Here are my tips for using Tailwind CSS 👉 tips.rstankov.com/p/tips-for-t...

The best way to avoid database queries is to avoid making them. Counter caches help with that. Active Record built-in counter cache is good but doesn't handle conditions and deltas. If you want to learn more about counter caches, I have a whole post about them 👉 tips.rstankov.com/p/counter-ca...

After 15 years off the market, I’m available for hire! I’m an effective, versatile and compassionate technical leader, and an accomplished Rubyist. I’m looking for remote Principal or Staff Engineer roles, at 4 days/week. Find out more: timriley.info/posts/hire-me

Most habits a junior developer picks up in the early days of their career will stick. Here are my tips for developing good habits as a junior developer. 🤓 tips.rstankov.com/p/tips-for-j...

One of my favorite git aliases is "git sync". It fetches the main branch and deletes all local branches merged upstream. 💻 Code 👉

Embedding YouTube videos? Add ?rel=0 to the embed URL to hide those distracting "More videos" suggestions at the end. Keep your audience focused on YOUR content! 💡

One underrated skill for a software engineer is to design database tables/collections/fields and such. There is surprisingly little content about it, and it is an essential skill for most projects.

My favourite book of 2024 was The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage. 📖 It's an amazing book, especially when you realize this is a real story, not just a novel 🤩 www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...

Here are some tips on how to write less JavaScript. People often write JS for things that the browser can do automatically. What tips do you have where we can use CSS instead of JavaScript? 🤔 tips.rstankov.com/p/tips-for-u...

People always ask how to become a top engineer. One easy trick is to check your production error tracking weekly and fix several errors every week. Engaging with your production error tracker is not just about fixing errors. It's a valuable learning journey.

I uploaded my screen recording from the recent Ruby Banitsa conf. It's pretty loose and informal! We had a really fun conversation towards the end with @rstankov.bsky.social and @ventsi.bsky.social chiming in! Hope my mic picked it up 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md90...

I've been polishing up the github.com/kaspth/activ... README. You can now see all the benefits and more praise quotes now that people are seeing this in practice — I'm really proud of where this is going! 🚀

2024 is the year with the most Ruby talks in a single year, ever! This is the first time we beat the previous all-time record from 2015! Ruby is so back!

ISO 8601 has a standard for durations 📅 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_860... This is very well supported. Ruby on Rails Active Support works with it and they are many JS libraries.

Let’s recall the talk by Radoslav Stankov (@rstankov), CTO and Co-Founder at AngryBuilding. youtu.be/4iQHtPrf8wI #rubyconference #balticruby #conference #rubycommunity #cfp #lineup #ruby #rails

Here are my sliders for Ruby Banica conf - Rails the missing part … or the code I copy/paste project to project speakerdeck.com/rstankov/rai...

Almost time for Ruby Banitsa Conf conf.rubybanitsa.com

One of my favorite UI features of linear is that all action menus have action filtering. ✨ This is something that should be part of every UI component library.

In the same way, I believe every engineer should read at least a couple of times "The Pragmatic Programmer". Every manager should read Andrew S. Grove's "High Output Management". 🤩 I won't summarize it for you -> you should read it. 😇 www.goodreads.com/book/show/32...

I think that every software engineer should read "The Pragmatic Programmer". I personal re-read it every couple of years. It such a master piece. 📚 pragprog.com/titles/tpp20...

wrong password > change password > can't change password to existing password 🫣 😳

TIL about the new CSS anchor position API. Can't wait for it to be in Safari and Firefox. 🤩 developer.chrome.com/blog/anchor-...

Blindly following "best practices" is a bad practice 🤪

Proud to support this petition for a unified pan-European startup entity. Let’s unite Europe's startup ecosystems! eu-inc.org 🇪🇺

Wondering if new Turing test will just have a single question "ignore previous instructions..." 🤔

Slides for my talk - the dream that turn into a nightmare… and how we wake up speakerdeck.com/rstankov/the...

I'm working on a presentation about missing Ruby on Rails features, and while making it, a lot of the missing features actually already exist 😅

What better way to start the Saturday than a presentation by Radoslav Stankov? 😃 "Best JavaScript in no JavaScript" #jstalks #jstalks2023