Wasn't happy with the 'logo' on my personal site so generated a signature version that I like the look of. Not giving away my actual handwriting seems like a nice use case for AI 🤔

Makes it sound like the JS got dizzy or something.

Understated upside to Claude Code and AI in programming - projects I have put off for years due to tediousness become way less of a headache.

My playlist for "the family hanging out at Thanksgiving" is Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers radio - open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...

The diversity of horizontal navigation in 2004 #WebDesignHistory

I'd buy a sub-$1,000 Apple Vision Pro but I probably wouldn't buy a Meta Quest at any price. Just cannot fathom trusting Meta with my fingerprints or a retina scan. The device model seems useful for remote office work type of setting. But not wearing it around the house w/ your family next to you.

every time

I restarted Zed and started getting the worst linting effect possible on ERB. I hope it's not HERB doing this but I have disabled erb_lint and html_beautifier that I was using and it's still happening...

🪩⚠️ Alert: @sfruby.com is in 10 days ! ! ! What's inside: 💎 two dozen new and hot Ruby startups like @bolt.new 💎 authors of RubyLLM, Herb, Active Agent, Inertia Rails, ZJIT, and more 💎engineers scaling Ruby and Rails at Chime, Cisco, Intercom, Shopify 💎afterparty by GitButler 🪩 (see part 2)

Hey, if you're going to SF Ruby, you should come biking with me and @kanejamison.com (he's hosting) on Day 3! luma.com/n1reh5hj

Started working on my first Ruby gem this weekend. It is probably overly ambitious and is absolutely stretching my programming skills, but I need a re-usable CMS pattern for setting up content collections consistently across different websites that is editor/front-end agnostic.

websites in 2025

Ruby & Rails folks going to @sfruby.com: On Friday I'm organizing a Golden Gate Bike Tour + Alcatraz Ferry Ride from ~9:30am to 1pm: Registration at luma.com/n1reh5hj

Me getting an email from Dependabot that a dependency just jumped from version 9 to version 43.

We often hear that folks want "wrap detection" in CSS (i.e. when a flex item shifts into a position where it wraps over to the next line) What is a real-world example of a use-case you would need this for?

I sort of understand why Ruby Gem authors set an upper bound on a dependency in a gemspec... "hey I have only tested this up to Rails 8.0, not promising it works with 8.1" But my immediate reaction is to fork / remove the gem if it's going to be extra drag weight on keeping my app up to date.

How would you build this kind of UI element in a modern Rails app?

@andrewaskins.com welcome back!

Just caught Claude Code making up a fake @tailwindcss.com class, but in Claude's defense, this would be an awesome class to have =)

I got Herb working in CI last night. The new Herb Linter flagged many more 'offenses' (214) than the `herb analyze .` command (14 files). Feel more like Standardrb. I had Claude parse the entire lint output and file it into Github Issues to address in separate PRs. Amazing work @marcoroth.dev 🙏

So I was doing a practice coding assessment today and there is a "Practice Interview with AI" option. So I gave it a shot, and had a good code solution in 10 minutes (out of 60) and then had a test failure due to timeout. Good so far...

So I was doing a practice coding assessment today and there is a "Practice Interview with AI" option. So I gave it a shot, and had a good code solution in 10 minutes (out of 60) and then had a test failure due to timeout. Good so far...

Am I crazy or is ZipRecruiter an elaborate scheme to hire people to work at ZipRecruiter?

The way to understand the importance of cancelling Disney+ is that it is an opportunity not just to exert power, but to pop the Twitter bubble execs have lived in for the past half decade, and show them their insular information environment has put their bottom line at risk.

Fascinating to see the differences in engineering hiring processes right now. I'm seeing teams that are asking their engineers to use AI in the role description but simultaneously trying to pretend AI doesn't exist during the interview and coding assessment.

person with their hand on the ”POUR MICROPLASTICS DIRECTLY INTO THE RESERVOIR“ lever is shocked, SHOCKED at what’s happened to all the drinking water

Hey Rails friends. I'm trying an experiment. Can you help me send this out to our industry friends? "A week of Hotwire Office Hours, so you can finally tweak your Hotwire-based app." Part group training, part accountability, part hangout with friends. Details soon👇 hotwiresupport.pascal.works

I dare you to guess where this video ends. Truly spectacular.

We're approaching 400 Rails database migrations in @contentharmony.com which is a little unwieldy in my editor sidebar. So I wrote a variation of @geetfun.com's database migration rake task that archives database migrations by year. Simon's version is at codewithrails.com/clean-up-db-...

Interesting pricing quirk on AI costs... if you have a medium length prompt, eg 400 tokens, it's more cost effective to add more boilerplate guidance to the model to qualify for cached inputs, which are eligible for prompts over 1024 tokens. 1200 cached input tokens is cheaper than 400 uncached.

This is an identical prompt getting sent to gpt-4.1-nano and gpt-5-nano. Based upon the -nano designation you might expect similar behavior. 5-nano is actually *half* the price on input tokens & same price on output, so it's surely a better deal, right? But the output behavior is way different:

Things I've learned the hard way about web development: * automated testing is always worth it in the long-run * limit your dependencies where possible, and keep up with dependency upgrades * don't write code in anticipation of future needs * integrate code changes often, no long feature branches

Everybody makes a fuss about refried beans but man, refried potatoes is where it’s at. Chopping up leftover French fries and refrying them for a breakfast bowl? So awesome.

Content Harmony's keyword database is up to nearly 500 million keywords. Full keyword search completes in 3-10 seconds usually. Here's 15 seconds to fetch 4 million keywords containing the phrase 'best'. Postgres GIN indexes are pretty incredible.

Teeny little feature but finally adding favicons into Content Harmony

So - ActiveStorage image processing with ruby-vips on Heroku... Works out of the box right? `libvips42t64` is included by default on Heroku-24 and 'libvips42' on Heroku-20/22 - devcenter.heroku.com/articles/sta... But you probably do need to enable it in CI?

👋 I'm hiring a part-time Chief of Staff in Seattle to help with all three of my companies: docs.google.com/document/d/1... If you know someone who's a potentially good match, referrals are greatly appreciated. Details are in the doc 🤗

Question about SolidQueue for Rails folks: Is it feasible to run a Postgres primary and SQLite cache/cable/queue? I want Postgres but don't want 4 separate $10 hobby-sized Postgres DBs. I'm guessing this does not work for Heroku but seems fine for Hatchbox?

Hello folks! I just finished up a contract Rails role this past month and I'm looking at new contract or PT/FTE Rails development roles. Happy to work on full stack Rails development but I'm especially on the lookout for teams who need a growth or design-focused engineer on their team.

The outreach spammers are just loving @beehiiv.com. I only actually sign up for maybe 5% of the emails I get from them. Pretty sure they intentionally don’t have a “I never signed up for this” feedback loop when you reach this page.

Pushed out a preview screen for an upcoming feature in @contentharmony.com today.

RubyEnv.app Beta is Live 🎉 Me: “I’ll build a whole beta invite system” Also me: just drops the link 🔗 rubyenv.app/download 📄 rubyenv.app/docs 💬 rubyenv.app/beta-feedback/new [email protected] if it breaks 💎

@afomera.dev fyi this modal persists on the install page

Ozzy is forever immortalized in the first thousand rows of @contentharmony.com's new keywords table... Soon to be a few hundred million rows.

I recorded a quick video yesterday showing a custom script I built for handling Gem dependency upgrades for Ruby on Rails apps. Some improvements on `bundle outdated` include release dates, # of versions available, and other helpful gem data. railsgrowth.com/articles/cus...

Today I released the initial version of my first-ever gem, called Active Operator. It's an extraction (and revision) of a pattern I've used for calling external APIs, and then storing and processing their responses. Here's an intro I did. ☺️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFfz...

Fun launch in @contentharmony.com this week - CMD+K Command Palette anywhere in the app. www.contentharmony.com/updates/comm...

Oh just lovely. You can tell Claude Code to go ahead and file Github Issues if it encounters tangential things while you're working on a project. It understands Github markdown perfectly. Command here was gh issue create --title "Test Issue..." --body "## Test Issue Description…)

Some simple but nice billing updates in @contentharmony.com this week: www.contentharmony.com/updates/refr... Now you can easily refresh your subscription for a new batch of credits. You can also update your billing contact info and payment methods, and download invoice copies.

Working with Claude Code and every time I correct it I love telling it to add a note to the CLAUDE.md file so it slowly builds out my repo style guide for me. EG this example when it tried to create a service object, which we don't use on this project.