Been cooking up a very cool new Ruby library... stay tuned.

What's currently en vogue for an LRU cache/hash in Ruby these days. Are folks still using lru_redux? There's not a lot of activity on the repo, but I presume that's because the project is condidered done and stable. 🤔 github.com/SamSaffron/lru…

Running git rebase for a branch on a large and active project after some drift and multiple commits to the same files isn't a fun job.

The way we write software will change dramatically over the next 2-10 years. If you’re not paying attention to the shifting landscape, you’re already falling behind. leanpub.com/patterns-of-ap…

Convention > Configuration

Simple > Complex

How many of y'all knew it's possible to use ActiveRecord to configure an in-memory SQLite database, define and create a table (migrate), and seed it with data in just 3 lines of Ruby?

Payroll should be a tax deduction again, period. Employee salaries shouldn't be added back in as 'profits.'

Yet, that's happening right now for developers, designers, PMs & more

As a result, people are getting laid off, & small business owners are being bled of every last cent

Holy Mackerel SQLite! 🤯

Rails URL/path helpers are astonishingly permissive and flexible. Want to use a human friendly method name ✅, or pass ordinal args ✅, or pass kwargs ✅, mix and match args ✅, use the generic URL/path helper instead of the friendly one and pass any combo of these args. ✅

Hetzner pricing is nuts. 😍 How the heck are they so aggressively competitive on affordability?

Changes to section 174 of the tax code absolutely crush software startups.

A 5-year depreciation schedule for a software engineer’s salary is insane.

Is the new move to build a “finished product” pre-revenue then fire all your engineers? Seems plausible.

🤡

Very interesting and important nuance when optimizing an app for SQLite. 🤔 I wonder how we could mitigate design decisions tailored for SQLite (such as intentional N+1s) if/when you switch to another database that requires a different approach.

My favorite software engineering quote:

'Don't try to find the best design in software architecture; instead, strive for the least worst combination of trade-offs'

It comes from the book Software Architecture: the Hard Parts.

Have also found it to be true many many times...…

Loving the instant18n translation gem. Obie Fernandez When do you plan to cut the next release? It's currently got ruby-openai pinned to '~> 4.0.0' 🙏

Love the simplicity of Rails + Propshaft + Importmaps.

Some great nuggets of advice and insight here. For example, 'The goal of winning is to play again.'