The new AI wave, Rails Builders III and Mom Test reading group
Hey all!
Here are some mixed-bag updates with useful resources to help us reach the next level, as well as
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Thoughtful side project pivoting
Do you ever switch from one project to another spontaneously? It often happens when something new comes along, and you
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DNS brain teaser for your engineering brain
I just spent a few weeks wrestling with a domain issue that could have been solved in a couple of
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Rails 8 on Kamal example setup with Sidekiq, Redis and Postgres
Finally, after years of Heroku, Render and fly.io, you make the switch to self-hosting. You use Kamal to save
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How I use AI coding tools as a Rails dev
🗞️TL;DR update June 25th 2025
Agents are here, i.e. in my IDE. RubyMine's Junie and GitHub&
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Setting yourself up for intentional hyperfocus
I just underwent a 9+ hyperfocus session, during which I finished reading the last 125 pages of Layered Design for
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