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

For Rails devs working with test fixtures, do you have any rules for yourself for when (if ever) you create one-off records within a test, instead of creating new fixtures?

Whoa, Big Cartel is hiring a principal Rails eng. It's been a while since I've seen a posting from them. jobs.rubyonrails.org/jobs/8334-pr...

Timely article related to this take. www.etsy.com/codeascraft/... Takeaways for me: - Prefetching is a last-mile optimization - Focus on common, high-traffic flows - Expect high waste (14:1 prefetch to navigated for them) - Speculation Rules API looks like the future

I gotta say, I'm not a fan of Turbo Prefetch as a way of improving performance. Reminds me too much of Hugh Jackman's magic trick in The Prestige. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Rr...

Do I know any Stripe developers looking for an opportunity? Might have something in the next couple weeks.

Today is the last day to grab a GA ticket for SF Ruby! Read our new blog post for a preview: evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

After building for a year, and then building an Elixir Phoenix-based selling platform, full-stack.biz/products/act... is finally available for purchase. Spin your own Action Mailbox/Action Mailer MTA.

Ok, that's pretty fun. Also, I *wish* I had eyebrows that thick. 🥲

Ok, I’ve got the house to myself today and I’m going to see if I can build and launch this weird Rails app I’ve been thinking about by EOD. I’m going to try livestreaming it starting in 15 (first time, we’ll see how that goes). youtube.com/live/QA3NLx5...

I always want to give a thumbs up on Claude’s chat responses, not because I’m trying to give Anthropic any feedback, but to let my little buddy know he’s doing a good job.

I've had this super weird idea for a while...could I build a useful/functional Rails app that doesn't use any words in it's UI? I just registered wordless.fyi and I'm thinking about trying to build it this weekend...should I livestream it?

Yesterday I was dealing with a set of system tests that always passed individually, but failed running all. I switched from headless Chrome to headed (headful?) to observe and noticed the "Save address" dialog was popping up on some form submissions.

When I'm working with a UI element that may or may not be a link, instead of using link_to_if, I usually prefer to create a wrapper method that accepts a block and handle the conditional check there.

If I said something weird when I met you at a conference, just know I'm still thinking about it. 🕺🕺

Huh, interesting...I wonder if/where this might apply outside visual art? From: austinkleon.substack.com/p/on-working...

Anyone over in Nashville?

Alright, I'm in... ☺️ Who else will I see at SF Ruby?!

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.

This morning I couldn't think of the name of the presence_in method from Active Support. But I knew exactly where I'd used it in an ApplicationController from a project I was working on 7 years ago, because the situation was the same.

www.blastoffrails.com CFP is open and Early Bird / Supporter Tickets are now on sale!

My #RailsWorld talk is now live on YouTube! I'm really looking forward to keep pushing Herb and ReActionView forward over the coming months! Please get in touch if you want to help building out this vision! Thank you for all the support! 🙏

XO Ruby, a series of traveling events is making its way to Atlanta on September 13th!! There are only 80 tickets available and they are going FAST www.xoruby.com/event/atlanta/

We can't wait to spend Sat. at the vibrant, dynamic Limelight Theatre for our Atlanta event. Join us for incredible talks, games + local Ruby community. See you there? 🏙️ Sat. 9/13, 9am-5pm 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: xoruby.com/event/atlanta/

I'm looking forward to XO Ruby in Atlanta this weekend! I'll be coming down Friday afternoon and staying until Sunday, and looking to hang out with folks. Will I see anyone there?

To celebrate the #RubyTriathlon, I've set 6 more Hotwire Club solution to free access. Feel free to browse the back catalog: www.patreon.com/c/TheHotwire...

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

In your opinion, what are the surprising advantages of attending a conference in-person that people might not realize until they’ve actually gone?

Happy to see a new issue of One Ruby Question from @bhumi1102.bsky.social this week! And I appreciated this from the postscript: "Understanding the system is the edge."

Pretty pumped to make it into Ruby Weekly for backpacking. ☺️

Ruby on Trails is back for the second year in a row! 🎒🥾 We'll be doing a 19-mile section of the Appalachian Trail, September 24-28. And we've got room for 2-4 more participants. If you're interested, check out the details and contact me! jeremysmithco.notion.site/Ruby-on-Trai...

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

I'm speaking at @xoruby.com in Atlanta! The lineup is going to be amazing, and I'm practicing the talk over this week. It'll be my first one, and I'm *extremely* fired up to talk about how urgently we need to fix the juniors pipeline. www.xoruby.com/event/atlanta/

Top-level controller namespaces like :api and :webhooks are fairly common in Rails apps, but I like to make top-level namespaces for many other things with distinct access patterns:

I really like building slide decks with Figma Slides, but I feel like it's going to bite me someday when I can't get online right before presenting. (Yes, they have an offline mode, but they warn you: Don't close that tab!)

After just shy of 5 years using Notable as my daily driver Markdown note taking app, I migrated 1990 notes to Bear last night. (No shade to Notable, thank you for your service, but sluggish rendering on really large docs and lack of a mobile app finally got me to switch.)

Solid advice from evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

Went for my normal 4-mile run today. Felt great, making good time the whole way. Wonder what the difference could be. 🤔 Perhaps the 20 degree temperature drop this week?

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.

I've been working on a speculative workflow library, built on a draft Batches feature for SolidQueue. 😅 I've been low-key obsessed with workflows lately, can't seem to help myself. Here's what the workflow interface looks like currently.

I'm going to be speaking at @xoruby.com Atlanta on September 13th. XO Ruby is a brand-new (traveling) single-day Ruby conference. If you're a Rubyist in the southeastern US, you should check it out! (And if not, take a look at other 5 stops this fall.)

We'll be hosting small regional ruby conferences in Chicago, Atlanta, and New Orleans in September. Tell your friends! www.xoruby.com/blog/why-i-a...

"Fish and the Fishing Fishers Who Fish It" 😂

Ahh, I missed @shortruby.com 😌

There's a kind of refactoring that is similar to reflective listening. The goal is deeply understanding what an unfamiliar system does. The practice is observing the existing code, and then responding "let me say this back in my own words to make sure I've got it."

I wrote some reflections on the flight home from the last RailsConf almost two weeks ago. I've just been sitting on them, feeling some reluctance to share. Maybe because I don't want to be misunderstood? Not sure. But I decided I'd share anyway, and hopefully it's meaningful.

I have this weird thing where my brain will get fixated on a word for a day or two. This doesn't happen all the time, but regularly. It's not on an endless loop, but if I have a break in attention or train of thought, I'm saying that word to myself again.

Looks like we might have a little capacity opening up at @planetargon.com in the next few months. If your team could use help shipping or stabilizing a Rails app, let’s talk. Details: www.planetargon.com/services/sta...

Good thoughts from "Quality is a trap"

Do you have a project that was inspired by or came out of your time at #RailsConf? 👀 Share with me for a possible feature!