RubyConf 2026 is coming up soon! The deadline to buy a ticket and enter the VIP raffle by buying a RubyConf ticket is July 1st. That’s only 2 days from this post’s publication. This personal essay explores why a language-specific conference…
RubyConf 2026 is coming up soon! The deadline to buy a ticket and enter the VIP raffle by buying a RubyConf ticket is July 1st. That’s only 2 days from this post’s publication. This personal essay explores why a language-specific conference…
This is a copy of the canonical report I published on RubyCentral’s site. I recommend reading there for the most updated copy. This document attempts to give closure to the Ruby community about the events that led to the incident, September…
This is a copy of the canonical report I published on RubyCentral’s site. I recommend reading there for the most updated copy. This document attempts to give closure to the Ruby community about the events that led to the incident, September…
This is a personal essay (I speak for me and my views, not for my employer) about what exactly a “Sustaining Engineering Model” is, in the context of the recent Heroku announcement, and the book “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” as seen by someone…
Now that programmers are at war with the robots (Gen AI) for our jobs, we need to lean into the things that they cannot do. Today, I’m going to be talking about how to be a human and communicate with other humans in the most hostile of scen…
I recently discovered that adding a clippy.toml file to the root of a Rust project gives the ability to disallow a method or a type when running cargo clippy. This has been really useful. I want to share two quick ways that I’ve used it: En…
Puma 7 is here, and that means your Ruby app is now keep-alive ready. This bug, which existed in Puma for years, caused one out of every 10 requests to take 10x longer by unfairly “cutting in line.” In this post, I’ll cover how web servers
Before the latest improvements to the Heroku Router, every connection between the router and your application dyno risked incurring the latency penalty of a TCP slow start. To understand why this is a performance bottleneck for modern web a…
I’ll make this plain and simple: If your app does not let me read back, the character-for-character raw text I put into the editor, it does NOT support markdown. Let’s set the scene: Our protagonist is burning the midnight oil. They’ve got
“That cannot be done.” Is rarely true, but it’s a phrase I’ve heard more and more from technical people without offering any rationale or further explanation. This tendency to use absolute language when making blocking statements reminded m…
Why aren’t people writing more types? Perhaps it’s because the intermediate and expert developers deleted the patterns that didn’t work and left no trace for beginners to learn from. This post details some code I recently deleted that has a…