Pro-Tip: reduce how many times you use the word “just” in emails, DMs and issues. Often “Can we” is a great substitute: “Just use a library” vs “Can we use a library?”

A tiny blog post to help you hunt down stray "puts" messages in your Ruby app: samsaffron.com/archive/2018/0…

Hundreds of engineers at Stripe are using it every day. It has been running in production for more than a year at Stripe. 40+ companies have been helping us polish it in private beta. Now, it's opensource. Please try it and share your experience!

Announcing my latest Mac app: Dato—A better menu bar clock with calendar and time zones. blog.sindresorhus.com/dato-7d6ce6faa…

My videos normally take 6-12 months of planning but I did this one in 2 weeks when I noticed people weren’t listening to the scientists. Please share this with anyone who thinks social distancing is an over reaction :) youtu.be/I5-dI74zxPg

Tesler’s Law: Making things easier for the user means making it more difficult for designers or engineers. This is one of the core reasons why it’s so hard to build simple and useful products. lawsofux.com/teslers-law

Yay, rack-mini-profiler is getting a sampling production profiler! github.com/MiniProfiler/r… 🎊

Justin Searls wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes

Rails scaaaaales

This new feature Rafael Silva made blows my mind. If you post a large image to Discourse it'll resize it on the client side before uploading it, using a big ball of WASM. This is great on mobile or for people with slow internet connections. meta.discourse.org/t/testing-comp…

Discourse can now resize and optimize images before uploading 🤯 Rafael Silva shares how he implmeneted the feature, data from real world usages, and thoughtful considerations to prevent overly aggresive data degradation from the optimizations 👏 blog.discourse.org/2021/07/faster…

Amazed at how often "good enough" is in fact actually good enough

"Perfection is impossible. In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. But what percentage of points did I win? 54% In other words, even top ranked tennis players win barely more than half the points they play. When you lose ever

if there is a single formula to success I think it's this: shorten the time between idea and execution

Very proud of the team! We just released the 3.5 release of Discourse! 🎊 blog.discourse.org/2025/08/unboxi…

Proud of the team! x.com/brentertainer/…

My latest attempt to get code reviews faster