Announcing `caddy-dev`: https://blog.practical.computer/2026/01/24/announcing-caddydev.html

Web Awesome continues to be an excellent investment. Since it’s all based on Web Standards, extending it to handle complex behavior leverages decades of experience, tooling, and approaches. Gotta love it! github.com/shoelace-…

Before and after today’s polishing round. Slowly, but surely, getting there

New open-source PR, this time for Noticed + keyword mailers! github.com/excid3/no…

Shoutouts to the Datadog team for making it remarkably easy to write + submit an integration. Hopefully this will get merged in soon! github.com/DataDog/d…

Put together some very quick thoughts from my 3-week deep dive into Lighthouse, Cumulative Layout Shift, and bundling. blog.practical.computer/2025/10/08/q...

The work that @marcoroth.dev is doing on the view layer for Ruby is so exciting. We’re running the newly-announced ReActionView in Little CRM; which already fixed a variety of syntax errors in our markup 😅

"small tweaks"

:SHIPIT:

To quote @kaspth.com: "LGTM"

With Web Awesome moving towards its release date; I’m finally starting to get a proper design for our apps. The theming is still WIP, but the components are much more cohesive

If you’re gonna be at RailsConf, I’m hosting an unofficial hang before the conference kicks off! lu.ma/railshang…

The Practical Framework 3.0.0 (alpha 1): https://blog.practical.computer/2025/06/02/the-practical-framework-alpha.html

Friendship with Scrivener over: https://blog.practical.computer/2025/05/22/friendship-with-scrivener-over.html

A great read: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/rejecti…

After 3+ years of work and refining in private repos, I’ve finally published an open-source implementation for client-side error handling that should work for 99% of cases! github.com/practical…

This is still one of the best guides & approaches for progressively enhanced form errors. I’ve been running a version of it for 2 years; and will be open-sourcing that library in the next few weeks cloudfour.com/thinks/pr…

Overhauling an existing app's view layer without halting development: https://blog.practical.computer/2025/04/08/overhauling-an-existing-apps-view.html

Coming soon!

Rails View Layers in 2025: https://blog.practical.computer/2025/03/22/rails-view-layers-in.html

Sneak peek of a new feature that’s coming soon to Little CRM

Having fun with error messages once again

I’m starting to add notifications, reminders, followups, prompts to Little CRM. Let me know your thoughts and what you’d find valuable (and more importantly, what you’d find annoying!) Now that I’m in the phase of m... https://blog.practical.computer/2025/02/20/im-starting-to-add-notifications.html

New tool: Mustachio Extism Plugin: https://blog.practical.computer/2025/01/16/new-tool-mustachio-extism-plugin.html

I know this isn't exactly what @lollibeepop.bsky.social intended for our Technical Writeup header images, but if the energy fits…😅 blog.practical.computer/2024/12/12/h...

How Little CRM is going to try to build a system to try to help folks who aren’t just plain weird, when the space is filled with just plain weirdos: https://blog.practical.computer/2024/12/12/how-little-crm.html

Little CRM update: I’m thinking of hiding “Events” from the UI while I work on the new posting UI. Folks haven’t groked it yet, and I’m thinking they make more sense as special kind of attachment to a micropost, than their own distinct items.

A peek into the UI overhaul for Little CRM’s timeline. First up is top-level filtering by the entry type, with (rounded) counts. The idea is to help the user avoid blindly navigating.

14-year-old-me is chuckling

Drop notes here!

Just finished the first weekend of alpha bugfixes for Little CRM. Improved the readability & grouping of timeline entries a good bit, and finally added avatars to people.

Just finished the first weekend of alpha bugfixes for Little CRM. Improved the readability & grouping of timeline entries a good bit, and finally added avatars to people.

Little CRM’s initial alpha is live!: https://blog.practical.computer/2024/11/19/little-crms-initial.html

Another reason I love Oaken: I’ll be able to setup a reliable, sandboxed, as-needed dataset for performance testing. It’s all powered by a single file, I could run it in test/dev, and easy to maintain gist.github.com/tcannonfo…

The initial alpha will be coming soon! Here’s the punchlist, minor stuff

Little CRM’s early alpha is almost ready! The plan: Get this alpha ready to ship Write a blog post explaining what’s in the early alpha currently, and how it works That way folks can see what the ethos is, and talk about signing up! So far the reaction has been excitement

The form for adding someone important to your endeavors is coming along! I've been trying hard to add fun placeholder values. Hopefully it'll guide to less transactional convos. Plus, it’s just plain fun to add a human element.