I've been driving myself crazy trying to figure out why syntax highlighting is not working on my personal site. It turns out @1password.bsky.social introduced a change to their Chrome extension that deletes elements in code tags. www.1password.community/discussions/...

Gonna stream again in a little under an hour! Come join and help me decide what I should do next. UX or new features??

Thanks for having me speak about Hotwire Native at Philly.rb last night!

Tomorrow night I’ll be speaking about Hotwire Native at Philly.rb. Come check it out!

Next week is Philly.rb! @kcdragon.bsky.social is joining us for an intro to Hotwire Native. If you’ve been curious about taking Rails to mobile without going all-in on Swift/Kotlin, this is a great chance to learn how teams are doing it in practice. RSVP here: www.meetup.com/phillyrb/eve...

I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

RBQ Conf is officially cookin’. Our CFP is open, and we’re looking for sponsors who want to support a warm, community-first Ruby gathering in Austin. If you’ve got a meaty idea to share—or want to help bring year one to life—we’d love to hear from you. rbqconf.com

One of my favorite parts of using tools like Claude is finding out about things that I didn't know existed. Just learned about "current_page?" in Rails. I thought that Claude wanted to create that method or hallucinated it but it turns out its a real method in Rails.

My dad was a programmer in the 90s and 200s. He was shocked when I told him that the code we write today is pretty close to what he wrote back then. He thought for sure we’d have a better abstraction at this point.

Philly.rb is back in person! www.meetup.com/phillyrb/eve...

Register for the @sfruby.com conf and you too can generate this cool avatar

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

Friends, tickets for the San Francisco Ruby conference are on sale and available. Grab yours, and I’ll see you with 600 Ruby friends and dozens of Ruby startups to pave the bright future for Ruby and Rails together on November 19-21! sfruby.com

I've been working on a Hotwire Native app called Calendar Vision and it's finally made it to the app stores! The app extracts events from photos and emails then adds them to your calendar. You can read more about it in this post and find the app store links there mikedalton.co/2025/08/27/c...

Does anyone do Ruby on Rails development on an iPad? It would be nice to travel only with an iPad.

Whoever created the "Reopen Closed Tab" button deserves the Turing award. Seriously, what an amazing button.

Replace a word in a movie title with 'butthole' Butthole and Butthead Do America

What's the best way to do the following in a single trip to the database in a Rails app? Multiple rows, single column, different values for each row.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...