you don't need more engineers. you need less managers.

In my new #rubyonrails projects, I like to add this at the beginning of my bin/setup unless File.exist?("config/master.key") puts "Creating config/master.key from 1P..." key = `op read "op://.../RAILS_MASTER_KEY"`.chomp File.write("config/master.key", key) end

Recently, at times, I feel disconnected from the code that I commit. That's why I also slow-code. Consider it, too. https://t.co/QKpSKPMZ9V

“The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” — Elon Musk

1,5 hrs of Claude Code and my Ruby on Rails project is migrated to @Saadeghi's DaisyUI. Would take me couple of workdays to fully migrate manually. What time to live in!

The @awscloud outage is just a reminder to all of us that the Internet was designed as decentralized network at its core. #cloudexit

If they say you need an expensive serverless like AWS to run your projects.... No you don't. This VPS costs me $3.5/month and runs well with well-optimized Laravel and MySQL

True. A big share of Kubernetes clusters in production do not resolve any practical issues, while they bring a lot of trouble with the unnecessary complexity, over-engineered abstractions, silly yaml-programming and performance issues.

https://t.co/euxS9Uop5E My useful AI Slop AI is a Pareto Rule Amplifier. It will get you 80% there, in 20%... -> no time. (...) it can augment developer experience, so if yours was terrible prior to AI, it will be even worse now.

I use @claudeai Code agents to bridge the "what does this do?" gap in big projects. Here I am sharing one: Analyzes code, builds pedagogical HTML with highlights & flows. E.g., accounting deep-dive in mins!

At a past company, the head of engineering and the principal engineers decided to break our Ruby on Rails application into a Go microservices mesh. They created very detailed design documents and architecture diagrams. They went all out and used Kubernetes, gRPC, service

If not for the easy VC money in the 2010s, "modern" frontend frameworks would've never been invented as a way to milk double the cash from investors.

I can tell you because I am intimately involved in the performance and scaling issues of over a dozen different Rails companies in the last twelve months: The number of them bottlenecked by thread switching overhead is ZERO.

Finally got around to my 2025 top language tier list

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted. https://t.co/cgRySjoVlr

In the spirit of self-hosting and good ol' DIY, I'm tinkering with a classic Rails blog: now with @OmarchyLinux themes live from Github. Still very much WIP, but the repo's on its way soon! #Rails #SelfHosting

@NearestCommit It’s interesting @dhh has done more for developers and Linux users in just a few years than most ever do, yet some people still find reasons to resent him.

Thinking about coming back to @heyhey just to have a stable blogging platform.

Don’t bother using `create_table` for join tables. Use `create_join_table` instead! 🙏 #rubyonrails