Tribalism doesn't make people bad. It reveals the bad character they already had.

Today I was part of another round of tech layoffs, and it was unexpected. I’m a Rails developer with 15 years experience and deep expertise, especially with Hotwire, backend, and viewcomponent. I’m looking for a new opportunity. Please hit me up if you wanna work together!

I have yet to hear a definition of "service object" which isn't interchangeable with either Command Pattern or PORO. That's a clue that "service object" is not a coherent idea.

Dismissing or contradicting an author's ideas purely out of antipathy for the author as a person, is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I'm finally catching up on my long-neglected email inbox. I'm proud to say that I've gotten through all my 2024 emails and now I'm onto January 2025.

The brief to Robby Russell was simple: "A podcast of Rails devs talking about the nitty gritty technical decisions they've made along the way." Robby took that idea & ran with it, and we have a lot of great conversations coming up, so be sure to subscribe! onrails.buzzsprout.com

Merchants of complexity have convinced a shocking number of developers that they're too dumb to do their own authentication. Of all the things you could outsource, I think you could do no worse than your app's front door.

What's the greatest number of merges to master you've seen a team consistently perform per day?

🚂 Announcing ClaudeOnRails! Hey everyone! Just released a gem that might change how you build Rails apps. ClaudeOnRails creates a swarm of specialized AI agents for your Rails project: • Architect (coordinates everything) • Models, Controllers, Views specialists •

The Nonsense Monthly testimonials are all oddly similar.

New tutorial for Rails, building on the Getting Started Guide, with more on the way! Feels to good to get this progressed to the next step: community review. If anyone wants to help by reviewing and working through the steps, we'd love your help!

multi-process, multi-node queue based rspec testing coming to a test suite near you soon! real test rails rspec test suite 24min -> 6min -> 3min 25sec 🏎️ (each with a 1min 30 sec bundle/yarn/asset precompile setup step)

Switching between the terminal and the browser to use AI for coding always felt wrong. I always expected it to be a temporary phase. Now that we have Claude Code and other similar tools, that phase has indeed come to an end and a glorious new one has begun. Hooray!

What are some of the most annoying & frustrating parts of building forms in Rails? I’ve had a ton of people ask me to cover “non-trivial forms” in my Phlex on Rails course and am looking for more examples. Please share screenshots, anecdotes, & examples!

Jason Swett getting quoted at African Ruby Community about the goodness of TDD!

I don’t miss Stack Overflow

The smarter your AI is, the less data it needs. Needing huge training sets is a sign of stupidity.

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Who do I know who a) lives in Canada and b) might like to work on a team with me? No specific skills are required, at least as far as I'm concerned. Just looking for smart engineers in Canada.