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.

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

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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...