When people compare Blogger and WordPress, the conversation usually ends with the same conclusion: “WordPress wins because of SEO plugins.” That assumption has discouraged countless beginners from starting a blog on Blogger. But, the truth
I’ve been doing some explorations about deployment options for Ruby, so I’m curious to learn more about what you’re using to deploy your applications.
Website downtime is one of the easiest technical problems to overlook until customers, readers, or clients discover it first. https://theworthyson.blogspot.com/2026/08/top-site-monitoring-uptime-alert-services-webmasters.html
Rails boot time is a DX metric now. Every restart costs deploys, CI, and human attention. And agents boot apps way more than people. So, our convenient new require-profiler gem shows what happens during boot: requires, Rails initializers, Y…
Blogger remains one of the easiest ways to start a blog. It is free, reliable, and managed by Google. The one complaint many users have, however, is the appearance of the default themes.
One of the dumbest questions I see asked on the Ruby/Rails subreddits is “Are Ruby & Rails still worth learning today?”, plus other variations, such as “Are Ruby and Rails still relevant today?” and “Are Ruby and Rails dead?” https://andyma…
The HTML file input shows “n files selected” when multiple files chosen. Here’s how Stimulus can be used (with or without Rails) to turn that into a list of file names for a better UX https://danielabaron.me/blog/displaying-file-names-for-m…
A sitemap is one of the basic technical SEO files a website can have. It gives search engines a list of URLs that you want them to discover and crawl.
A Rails callback race traced across record saves, outer transactions, background-job connections, Active Job deferral, transactional tests, and the delivery gap after commit.
Starting a new blog creates an obvious problem: nobody knows it exists. You can publish useful articles every week and still receive very little traffic in the beginning. The solution is not necessarily buying backlinks.
https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/pluckr - a gem that can return results from multiple queries using 1 SQL statement. Reduce the number of round trips you are making to the DB. I have some benchmarks: https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/pluck…
I released Omakase 0.2, a small agent framework on top of RubyLLM about 800 lines. The idea is that an agent is an ordinary Ruby object: its fields are state, its public methods are what the model can call (no tool registry, no JSON schemas…