“The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed,” says David Gomes from @cursor.com.web.brid.gy. He estimates that 50% of the world’s engineers have yet to try agentic coding, and that at least 7 billion people still need to adopt LLMs.

Vibe coding can speed up app development, but it can also quietly introduce serious security flaws. This article breaks down the four most common risks and how to avoid them: evilmartians.com/chronicles/f...

We’re expanding the benefits of ruby.wasm within the Ruby community (and beyond). This update for the Ruby Association Grant introduces our new project, TutorialKit.rb. It's a toolkit for building interactive Ruby and Rails tutorials that run entirely in the browser.

What if new hires could understand your entire codebase on day one? @baweaver.bsky.social thinks this is possible with MCP tools. An AI agent could become an expert in your codebase and make institutional knowledge available 24/7 for any team member. Watch his SF Ruby Conference talk:

Aptos asked us to rebuild their website in one month. That meant collaborating with designers, negotiating scope, and choosing the right tech stack. In this post, we share secret tips that helped us deliver on time, the lessons we learned, and examples you can steal to meet a tight deadline.

Can AI really turn us all into a “10x engineer,” or is that just a pipe dream? AI has quickly reshaped software development and the benefits are still unclear. This research-backed article attempts to uncover what you can expect from developers who regularly use AI to speed up their work:

In case you missed it, @anycable.io v1.6.9 comes with: - Durable Streams support (via @electric-sql.com) - A new REST API for publishing broadcasts - mTLS support for Redis - Pusher Get Channel Users API Check out the details: docs.anycable.io/release_note...

Successful founders aren’t afraid to start over. We’ve seen this pattern repeatedly on our pod. Take Monica Sarbu. She made the call to restart Xata, shifting focus from builders to SMBs. In this episode, she tells Vica how they invest in user research and let those insights guide decisions.

When shipping with AI, if something breaks, the problem is often not about the AI itself. Rather, it's about the decisions you make. For dev tools, the most expensive mistake is deciding to build something that doesn’t actually fit how people work.

Dave’s (@pragdave.bsky.social) talk is the most popular one from the 2025 SF Ruby Conference, by far. “Start writing Ruby, stop using classes” is a masterclass on writing Ruby, choosing modules over classes, and questioning the habits we inherited from C++.

Dave’s (@pragdave.bsky.social) talk is the most popular one from the 2025 SF Ruby Conference, by far. “Start writing Ruby, stop using classes” is a masterclass on writing Ruby, choosing modules over classes, and questioning the habits we inherited from C++.

“We don’t have a sales team, everything is coming inbound,” said @monicasarbu.bsky.social on the latest episode of Dev Propulsion Labs. As Xata's founder, she explained they invest in listening to customers and removing friction to make products easier and more intuitive.

Optimistic UI is a lie. And the modern web has trained everyone to expect interfaces that lie convincingly. In this new post, see how with Inertia Rails, telling that lie takes remarkably little code because of how Inertia handles state: evilmartians.com/chronicles/o...

Every year we review @en.sitnik.ru’s post on favicons to make sure we have the best, most straightforward guide out there on the topic. 2026 is no exception. Turns out, you don’t need dozens of icons. You need five handcrafted ones and a single JSON file. This guide shows you exactly how to do it.

Workshops from 2025 SF Ruby Conference are now live. These include: - @tonsoffun.bsky.social on building AI agents with Rails - Brandon Shar, @skryukov.dev, and Brian Knoles on Inertia Rails - @kaspth.com on upskilling your team - @noelrappin.com on Ruby’s dynamism to your advantage

"I have nothing but great things to say about Evil Martians." Albert Pai from @bolt.new shares his experience working with our team on a long-term contract with diverse needs, from design to DevOps/SRE and Rails.

Ruby 4.0.1 Released www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026... This release includes a bugfix for Kernel#sleep, along with other bugfixes. We recommend upgrading your Ruby version at your earliest convenience.

With the release of Safari 26, some things have changed, which is why you need to read our updated article on easily detecting Safari and iOS versions!

Understanding who needs your dev tool is crucial for a strong GTM strategy. In this conversation with Piyush Agarwal, we discuss: - Talking to customers to identify the problem - Testing your hypothesis with a low-fi prototype - Selling your product at the right time This episode is a must-watch.

The second batch of talks from the 2025 SF Ruby Conference is now live on YouTube. This features demos and presentations from the Black Box Theatre stage, with @indirect.io, @inazarova.bsky.social & Albert Pai, @bensheldon.bsky.social, and more. Watch them in order: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Calling all frontend engineers. It's the perfect time to become a Martian. We’re looking for a JS dev who respects CSS, UX, and design and can work independently on a fully remote team. Join the team behind PostCSS, Nano Stores, and OKLCH. Apply here: evilmartians.com/careers/fron...

What made @workos.bsky.social, @sentry.io, @planetscale.com, and other devtool startups succeed in the rough waters of 2025? @vicamelnikova.bsky.social spent the year in San Francisco talking face-to-face with founders you already follow. Below are the top pieces of advice to take into 2026.

In 2026, devtools will win user trust + adoption with these 6 approaches to a higher-quality developer experience. Our new post by @valyay.bsky.social is a field-tested playbook for implementing these principles in the tools you’ll ship this year:

ONE MORE GIFT IN 2025: We're keeping Intertia.js + Rails on par with the Laravel adapter. In this refreshed post, more on that, plus 3 official starter kits for React, Vue, and Svelte. evilmartians.com/chronicles/i...

The highlight of our year was hosting the SF Ruby Conference and hearing from so many talented people in the industry. On Friday, we published a playlist with the first 30 talks from the conference. Here’s a quick breakdown of each of them:

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Ruby and the release of Ruby 4.0, the first 32 talks from the SF Ruby Conference main stage are now live on YouTube! This includes keynotes from @marcoroth.dev, @palkan.bsky.social, and @paolino.me. We’re working on uploading the rest next week.

"SF Ruby was a technical statement. We’re fighting skepticism with running code. We’re bringing Ruby-powered startups into production at scale. We’re building the tools the ecosystem needs."

@sfruby.com (#sfruby) was a huge success 🔥 Huge thanks to @inazarova.bsky.social for bringing the community together and to @evilmartians.com for supporting this initiative from day one. Grateful to every coordinator and to the volunteers who supported this event from behind the curtains.

Let’s take a moment to reflect on what 2025 looked like: 44 companies trusted us to build, stabilize, and redesign their products, helping them raise $644,224,994 from leading VCs.

October’s SF Ruby meetup hosted at Founders Cafe is now live on our YouTube! Presentations by: - Chamod Gamage from AngelList - @aergonaut.com from Binti - @motdotla.bsky.social from dotenvx - @camertron.bsky.social from @cisco.com - @milesgeorgi.bsky.social from @foob.news shorturl.at/St4uW

At Evil Martians, we take supply chain attacks seriously. Postinstall scripts are the weakest link in npm security, and the fix is almost embarrassingly simple. Here's a guide to increase JS app security from one of @en.sitnik.ru's recent projects:

“The promise of Rails is being fulfilled. People just haven’t caught up with this reality yet,” says @inazarova.bsky.social. We wrote about SF Ruby and reveal the real reason we decided to host the conference. Find it here: evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

We see a surge of leads looking for "vibe code cleanup". So, at this point, we're out to make vibe coding more efficient! @inazarova.bsky.social experimented with vibe coding while building a feature for @sfruby.com’s website, but it wasn't perfect.

Any @laravelphp.bsky.social engineers here? We recently made @anycable.io available for Laravel! This handy open source project gives you: - Go-powered performance - Massive connection scaling - Best-in-class real-time reliability Read the docs: docs.anycable.io/guides/laravel

Michael Grinich (@grinich.bsky.social), CEO and founder of WorkOS, describes product-market fit as a force that keeps pushing you forward… even when you make seemingly catastrophic mistakes. And you usually know you’re close when enterprise teams start knocking on your door.

Martian Designer @objartel.bsky.social thinks vibecoding apps are missing out on easy revenue and design is the main gap! Luckily, design tools have given us many of the answers over the years. Here are 5 patterns worth adopting:

Our new post about migrating Ruby tooling from Parser to Prism for 3.4. Weird edge-case syntax, shifting AST shapes, translation layers, and what it took to make Unparser handle modern Ruby. evilmartians.com/chronicles/u...

Big thank you again to @inazarova.bsky.social and the whole @evilmartians.com team and all the volunteers (like Gary here!) for this incredible event. It feels so so good to have our Ruby friends here in our wonderful city. It’s a beautiful gift. 🎁 AND we got a Rails X cake! (Iykyk)

A really big thank you to @inazarova.bsky.social , Amanda Kinney, and the whole @evilmartians.com crew for putting on such an incredible event. And thanks to @bradgessler.com and @chael.codes for the pics. Let's build the future with Ruby!

We look at 5 concepts from design tool UX (even from games like Zelda) that can open vibecoding up to a much larger audience. evilmartians.com/chronicles/v...

5️⃣ Denis Lifanov from @evilmartians.com published an article on migrating 750GB of data from PostgreSQL to PlanetScale MySQL for @WhopIO with zero downtime, maintaining feature development throughout.

Huge thanks to the @evilmartians.com team and @inazarova.bsky.social in particular for organizing the SF Ruby Conf. Kudos to the sponsors: Chime, @bolt.new, Cisco, gusto, @temporal.io, @scoutmonitoring.bsky.social, @planetargon.com, @hackclub.com, @gitbutler.com, and others. sfruby.com.

We analyzed 300+ startups founded in 2024 and thousands of @github.com repositories to learn why @react.dev maintains dominance. Should your startup follow the crowd or go a different route? evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

New blog post! Whop powers thousands of creators and communities. When big influencers (millions of subscribers) brought their communities, real-time features—chat, notifications, feeds—it pushed Postgres to the edge. The DB was the bottleneck killing Whop’s scaling efforts.

Come join me at SF Ruby, I think the program looks great!

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...

Heading back to SF next month for sfruby.com. @planetargon.com is sponsoring, and I’m hoping to meet teams giving their software a second act. Thanks to @inazarova.bsky.social and the @evilmartians.com crew for the Cloud Card of me. Tickets and details → sfruby.com

Made a new PostCSS plugin for generating more realistic smooth shadows like on smoothshadows.com Now designers usually rely on generators, but the resulting code is often hard to maintain. github.com/postcss/post...

An excellent guide to creating a search function on a website using @astro.build and @svelte.dev. Thanks to this guide by Evil Martians, we have implemented a search on the ESLint Perfectionist website. It will be released soon. 🚀

Agentic traces contain perfect info about agent behavior with every plan, action, and retry. But it’s lost in a sea of JSON. So we built AgentPrism: open source React components that turn traces into visual diagrams for debugging agents. Plug in OpenTelemetry data and see your agent’s process.