Working in small chunks is one of the powerful dev skills I have!. Among other things it:. 👀 Makes it easier to get code review (smaller PRs).🏃‍♂️ Keeps forward momentum.🗑️ Prevents code from going stale.↩️ Makes code easier to revert. a thread on ways to achieve this 🧵.

Curious about which articles made it in but don't want to watch the video? I've put all the links in a gist along with a one-line reason it was picked.

Missed my #RailsConf talk in Philadelphia? Recordings are out! "The History of Rails in 10 Blog Posts".

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I was able to upload the map and vaguely describe the area I wanted to see such as "the north side of the central plaza" and it could describe all the buildings around and offer me a few different viewpoints!

My #RailsConf talk was themed as a walking tour through "RailsLand". I had this watercolor style map of the town and wanted to get some street level views to showcase each stop I was curious to see what an AI could do and was surprised at how good the computer vision was!

For those who missed the talk, it was recorded and you'll get a chance to see it once conference videos are out. In the meantime, here are my slides:.

Thanks to everyone who came out to see the talk! Here is the passport fully stamped. Hope you had fun on this walking tour!

Good morning #RailsConf! Get your chrono-passports ready and come join me for a time-travel tour of Railsland! 3:15PM on the main stage

What are some ways you like to get more value out of a conference like @railsconf?. Do you take notes during sessions? How do you connect with strangers? Share your tips in the replies!.

Looking for something to listen to while you travel to @railsconf ? On this episode of the Bikeshed, @matheusrich and I muse about how to get the most out of attending a conference.

Some caveats apply to the "re-hydrating" technique shown above: if rows are removed, modified, or added your rehydrated rows might not be quite the same as those that generated the aggregate. I've found this works best when grouping by at least a date parameter (in the past!).

Did you know that you can "hydrate" a row from a GROUP BY query by running a WHERE with specific values for the grouping params?. SELECT source, date, COUNT(id).FROM events.GROUP BY source, date. hydrate with:. SELECT *.FROM events.WHERE source = 'Slack' AND date = 2024-01-01.

Did you know ActiveModel supports objects with composite primary keys? I used this to model events grouped by a few properties. Groups were a concept in my UI but not in the database. Just as easy as ActiveRecord!.

Zettelkasten-like note-taking systems seem really well positioned to take advantage of AI. Has anyone done anything interesting here?.

What would make YOUR top 10 list of articles that impacted the Rails community in the last couple decades? (max 1 per author 😉).

In homage to the final @railsconf , I'm giving a talk on the history of the Rails community in 10 blog posts. Wanna discover why Rails devs avoid putting logic in controllers or why we test in a certain way? Join me in Philly this summer!

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It started out as a way to explore different ways Ruby does string interpolation and special characters, but it ended up being about how we interact with rules and complex problems. Do you ignore the style guide? Do you overengineer a solution? I have been most of these 😅.

🐉🧙‍♂️ I had fun with this one! D&D alignment chart for dealing with tricky strings in Ruby. Which one are you?.