Today has been a pretty amazing day… Say hello to Emma Elanor Margheim and wish her a happy birthday!

I love what @calebporzio.bsky.social is doing w/ Flux UI, and the new pillboxes component is 😍. I enjoy trying to build components without an ounce of JS anywhere to be found. Mine requires keyboard nav with TAB, but is otherwise basically identical: play.tailwindcss.com/qB07fPsFG9 #StylishHTML

Yes, it is slow and steady progress, but we are genuinely building an amazing community of people and suite of tools for Ruby web developers. You should come hang out with us at discord.gg/fEMYkKQA

Rails 8.1.beta1 ships with this PR adding min_connections to database configuration. This will benefit SQLite on Rails apps a ton, preventing write throughput saturating the connection pool and holding back reads. github.com/rails/rails...

Now open sourced! github.com/basecamp/act...

My favorite upcoming feature coming to the Rails ecosystem is ActiveRecord::Tenanted, which is an exciting new gem coming from @flavorjon.es soon. Everyone gets a database!

The future of Rails is very very bright, especially for those of us who have already seen the light of the power of SQLite on Rails

In Amsterdam just in time to drop off my bags and make it to checkin. One more train ride to go. #RailsWorld

Starting my journey to #RailsWorld well before the sun rises 🥱

I have just opened two of the most exciting PRs for Chaotic Job. Soon, you will be able to write tests and simulations for the two most common sources of bugs in background jobs: (1) retries and now (2) races github.com/fractaledmi...

I need some great RSS feeds to provide me with some quality longer form reading material. Hit me with all of your recommendations!

🌶️ take: All IO interfaces should be owned/proxied by in-app classes. So, you should have something like an S3Client class, an FFMPEGClient class, a GoogleOAuthClient class, a QueueRedisClient class, a CacheRedisClient class, etc. in your application

We're live! Watch my little studio intro and let me know how it sounds, how it looks. Still plenty to do and improve, but I've already had my first handful of calls in here and they went great.

Getting all of the sound foam up was my second battle, but some wide head nails and stronger glue eventually did the job. Doing my first calls today in the new office/studio! Camera mount and mic arm should arrive tomorrow to unlock video recording!

Getting the walls up was only half the battle. Next major squirmish was figuring out why the fans wouldn’t run consistently. After some exploring and experimenting, learned there was a timer controller that was behaving oddly. Put my amateur electrician hat on and removed it.

It isn’t done and it isn’t perfect, but it is mine and it does work.

Here it is with the tape off and the glue set. Next up base boards (as seen on the ground) and interior.

Great afternoon of progress! The wood acoustic panels are now up on the exterior. Glue on the corner is setting. Doing a bit of door framing then base board and sound foam on the interior. Onward and upward!

Insulated! Tomorrow we put the exterior acoustic wood panels up. Then interior finishing touches. It is coming together!!

Fans and light installed!

Door is installed! Wiring up the inflow and outflow fans now, then insulation and paneling. Final finishing touches at the end. Slow and steady

Half at thru day two and getting the inner dry wall hung. A bit of wiring, insulation, then the outer panels will finish the walls. Also gotta frame the door. Great progress tho!

Day one: frame is up. It is a small little studio, but it will be mine. Made with my (and my Dad’s) own hands. Onto day two!

This corner is now cleared out and we begin framing the outer walls tomorrow. What was a little work corner yesterday will be a sound insulated tiny studio later this week

As @aaronfrancis.com says, you can just build things. The “build a small studio in the corner of the apartment” project begins now.

We should all probably be using double-dashed idents for our HTML `id`s. Once the advanced `attr()` function is baseline across browsers, this will allow us to dynamically use our `id`s as custom idents in CSS.

Simple fact: HTML is the best component framework out there. It is composable, universal, and grows more featureful by the quarter.

@briancasel.com I’d love some thoughts on using Agent OS with Zed Agents

This PR will add `min_connections` as a db configuration option. SQLite apps with bursts of heavy write traffic can remove the bottleneck of writes saturating the connection pool and holding back reads, since at the db level reads can always occur. github.com/rails/rails...

After various delays across various modes of transport I have finally made it to my room for #RailsConf2025. Now for a few hours of sleep 😴

At the gate to board my trans-Atlantic flight from Berlin to Philly for #RailsConf2025

I've been using a new text-only affordance for actions (links and buttons): "Verb →" means a navigation "Verb ↓" means downloading content "← Back" means navigating to previous page "Verb ↑" means opening a dialog "Verb ✓" means submit form I love it and users love it!

The weather this time of year in Philly generally changes a lot day to day so take the forecast for #RailsConf with a grain of salt. Here's my suggestions for anyone traveling from outside the east coast:

What is the best <50k midsize SUV in your opinion? And reminder, I live in Berlin, so has to be available here. Also, living in Berlin, I don’t need a car multiple times a day every day, which is why I only want to spend up to 50k. Hit me with your recs

Oh, and well-scoped pages with well-considered HTML leveraging basic HTTP actually plays _super well_ with AI coding assistants. I know everyone says that AI seems primed for React, but it is also great with core web technologies when used appropriately.

Worth adding that properly leveraging the power of HTTP and HTML will likely require "undoing" some of the development patterns you have learned from JS frameworks. Similarly for UX patterns. As a tweak on a Kent Beck classic: "Make the feature easy, then make the easy feature."

We all know that you can implement a tabs UI with standard anchor links, right? Aaannndd, this architecture allows you to add new tabs and additional tab content without one day running into a brick wall with loads of request timeouts. And the UI can look *exactly* the same.

The virtuous cycle of writing tests for Acidic Job patterns using Chaotic Job has been so much fun. Chaotic Job shows me slight unresilient details in my job, and Acidic Jobs patterns show me feature I need to add or improve in Chaotic Job. Both gems have improved much this month

The modern western city, with its slavish commitment to a car-centric lifestyle, allows car manufacturers to continue to be lazy. I want more better cars at more affordable rates. And I also want better cities that cater to real livability, walkable and safe.

Don’t just take my word for it, @rosa.codes knows Chaotic Job “has a lot of potential for everyone” as a testing tool for your most important jobs. Introduce a chaos monkey into your job tests to ensure your essential jobs are truly resilient. github.com/fractaledmi...

If you are a dev-centric company and you have clear positioning, profit-oriented pricing, and a proven product, you should be more aggressively pursuing mind-share thru a large collection of small "ad spends". * 6 months of 30 second ads on every @mostlytechnical.com, or...

Awesome shout-out in the Ruby Weekly newsletter for one of my least-known, but best gems. Chaotic Job will literally 10x the quality and utility of your tests for background jobs. I positively love it, and I know for a fact that you will too. Check it out: github.com/fractaledmi...

Genuine question: why don’t more dev tooling companies engage in “brand advertising” by sponsoring a large number of small conferences, have one or two solid speakers at conferences regularly, and either ads on a YT creators channel or with a channel themselves?

Let’s geaux Tigers! #MCWS So happy to see the second World Series win in three years for our LSU Tigers.

After some experimentation, research, and AI being stupid, I finally have a simple, clean implementation of a star rating component that uses only radio inputs and labels. Full walkthrough in my newest blog post 👇️

🧪⚡️ Acidic Job Pro offers a suite of battle-tested, elegant, and powerful features to make building complex workflows a breeze. You can gate running a step with a one-time check, a repeated check, or a delay; you can compensate for errors; you can also iterate over a collection.

I just pushed version 1.0.0.rc6 of Acidic Job, which setup a massively improved CI system to test against a full matrix of Ruby versions, Rails versions, and database engines. And I have 7 example job patterns that we run full Chaotic Job simulations against. On our way to v1!

We will also be joined by the one and only @fractaledmind.bsky.social‬, creator of Acidic Job!

Rubyists! I'll be co-hosting a SQLite "office hours" with all-around good guy @fractaledmind.bsky.social at the final #RailsConf in Philly (on Day 2 of the conf!) If you've got any questions about using SQLite or deploying it into production, we'd love to help! Get your ticket here: railsconf.org

I'll be participating in Hack Spaces at the final #RailsConf in Philly (on July 9th, aka Day 2)! In the morning I'll be with @flavorjon.es to hack on all things SQLite, then in the afternoon join me to hack on Acidic Job. Get your ticket now: railsconf.org