I'm trying to change my information diet. Less social media, more long-form reading. I even installed an RSS reader like it's 2015 🎉 What are your favorite feeds and newsletters?

My team at Plane is hiring experienced full stack engineers. We use Rails, Postgres, Phlex, Vite, TypeScript and Svelte. I don’t have a full job description yet, but drop me a DM if you want to know more.

New: the world of Ruby has gone completely off the rails over the past few weeks. Developers suddenly locked out, corporate pressure, and claims of a "hostile takeover" of one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the internet we all rely on everyday www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

Eloquently put, exactly my sentiment as well. Also thankful for thousands of contributors over two decades that make Rails what it is today.

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

I've always tried to separate the art from the artist, but it has become increasingly difficult in recent years.

This was a banger of a talk, coming from one of the nicest people I've met at @friendlyrb.com.

Shout out to @friendlyrb.com on setting the benchmark on organizing a local, cozy, friendly Ruby conference. What a great team!

The @friendlyrb.com beauty pageant about to begin!

One of my favorite talks at @friendlyrb.com yesterday was "Why doesn't Ruby have Boolean class?" by @okuramasafumi.com. Following his relentless journey down the boolean rabbit hole was super fun.

Super excited to be at @friendlyrb.com, quite possibly one of the best Ruby conferences ever. And to finally meet in person all the awesome Ruby people like @rosa.codes, @michaelkoper.com and @lucianghinda.com and many more that I feel like I've known for years.

Migrated an old project from Devise to Rails 8 authentication. Works like a charm. Next up: OmniAuth.

The only thing preventing me from actually using Tailwind Plus components was having to wire up the functionality myself. This is the best thing to happen to @tailwindcss.com components, ever. tailwindcss.com/blog/vanilla...

The new Deftones album is so good! I have deep respect for how consistent they've kept their signature sound for over three decades. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Discovered an excellent use case for AI coding: writing Javascript. Built a private browser extension in a few hours and for $4. It was perfect because I don't care how the code looks, as long as it works. And also because I don't have to maintain it.

I've been playing around with @avohq.io for the past few days and really digging it, especially how declarative it is. My favorite part is not having to build any of the CMS functionality myself.

"This is what leads most of us to stop drawing. Not because we lack talent, but because we've developed the ability to judge before we've developed the ability to execute. We become connoisseurs of our own inadequacy." maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-...

The current state of AI coding reminds me the of the JS Frameworks era of the past decade. A new way of doing things every week. That's why I like Rails, it has been more or less the same for the past 20 years. I keep AI in a separate window for the occasional question, but that's pretty much it.

One of the best things to come out of the EU is the USB-C mandate. How did we ever live with so many chargers before?

"Big companies build products sold by specious executives or managers to other specious executives, and thus the products themselves stop resembling things that solve problems so much as they resemble a solution." www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

Like Yossarian in Catch-22, I imagine people throbbing with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time they gaze at their own AI generated work, reflecting that none of the work that had gone into it was theirs.

As AI gets better, it will be increasingly difficult to differentiate "real" from "generated". This will put a premium on authenticity, the same way you can get a $25 chef knife from Ikea, but people (me) still spend $250 for a hand-forged Japanese knife.

There's an easy solution to declining fertility rates around the world: ban wearing crocs with socks in public.

"While mass production separated the maker’s hand from the object, AI attempts to separate the maker’s judgment and taste from creation itself." linear.app/blog/why-is-...

Because they can't easily measure or attribute the value of brand advertising, and therefore conclude it has little or no value. Which is completely wrong.

I was wondering why the Open Graph image for craft.tattoo didn't show up on @bsky.app. Turns out it was the "allow_browser" method enabled by default in Rails 8. Disabled it and we're back in the game.

Just shipped craft.tattoo 🎉 It's a tattoo design tool to help you visualize your tattoo ideas in multiple styles. Check it out!

Hi friends, I need your help. My contract just got caught in a round of layoffs, so I'm open for short/medium-term fullstack work: Clojure, Rails, React, etc. If you know anyone looking for a senior dev who can ship fast, I'd love to hear about it. My LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/goshatch Thank you! 🙏

Shoutout to @adrienpoly.com and @marcoroth.dev for sharing the rubyevents.org source code. Excellent inspiration on building a Rails 8 app using sqlite and the solid trifecta. github.com/rubyevents/r...

I hope the trend of using Ghibli-style images in LinkedIn posts and slide decks dies a quick death. I can't think of anything more unimaginative than using the work of an iconic animation studio for your stupid point about increasing ROI or whatever.

The best description of "AI agents" yet.

One of my favourite features in linear.app is the keyboard shortcuts. So thoughtfully designed and well done.

Panel discussions have got to be the laziest form of event planning. Just get a bunch of people together to share anecdotes and opinions with zero preparation.

This gem looks like it might just be the end of my SMTP woes. railsdesigner.com/meet-courrier/

Just saying Friendly.rb is happening the week after Rails World, and we still have a few tickets available https://friendlyrb.com @friendlyrb.com

What's the "Rails" way of designing a multi-step workflow with background jobs? Each job triggering the next, active record callbacks, state machines or something else? Help!

Decided to skip Rails World this year and go to @friendlyrb.com instead. Flight and hotel booked 🎉 Looking forward to it!

A few days into @hatchbox.io and absolutely loving it.

TIL about ActiveJob Callbacks, so my background jobs can call other background jobs. It's background jobs all the way down.

I love "regenerating" an LLM response with exact same input and getting a completely different output, usually with an equal level of conviction. Reminds me to never trust LLMs for anything factual or serious.

TIL you can use @ngrok.com to listen to webhooks on localhost. Pretty cool.

Started a new Rails app using SQLite on Hatchbox. Primarily influenced by @fractaledmind.bsky.social's Rails World talk and excellent High Leverage Rails course. Curious to see how far I can take it, wish me luck🤞

What do you use for marketing emails / newsletters? Looking at Kit and Loops.

Rails devs running SQLite in production – has there been anything that you've missed or regretted so far?

Just added ViewComponent to a Rails app for the first time. AMA.

You can have any color you want, as long as it's gray.

I really wanted to love daisyUI, but arbitrary design decisions and having to learn another layer of abstraction on top of @tailwindcss.com makes it hard for me to enjoy it. It almost always takes more time to style the components than to write them from scratch. Great for quick prototypes though.

It's baffling to me how Heroku will log me out of their dashboard every day. It's like they figured out how to deploy Rails apps two decades ago but haven't figured out how to keep users logged in? Feels like some "enterprise security" thing from Salesforce.

How terrible an idea is it to use Solid Cable with a Heroku PostgreSQL production db? Sqlite is not an option, sadly. #dangerzone