Navigation logs from the Ruby nebula—code adventures, cosmic experiments, and interstellar debugging missions.
Journey through experimental spacetime narratives where Ruby engineering meets cosmic adventure. Each chronicle explores programming concepts through interstellar exploration, powered by the mysterious Clockweave engine.
The untold story of how one AWS employee turned a 20-day nightmare into a lesson in corporate accountability. Sometimes all it takes is one person who actually gives a damn.
After 10 years as an AWS customer and open-source contributor, they deleted my account and all data with zero warning. Here's how AWS's 'verification' process became a digital execution, and why you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything.
The unfiltered story of Rails Lens: ten years of frustration, harassment, theft, and finally breaking free to build something better. From TOML discoveries to AI validation, this is how persistence beats pattern parasites.
Learn how to break free from the laboratory system, spot genuine technical leaders, and redirect your empathy to protect the real victims. Plus: How the "be kind" movement was weaponized to silence technical expertise.
From FOREX scammers to tech influencers: How the same laboratory system weaponizes your empathy, farms your confusion, and sells you certainty. The psychology behind why we defend our gurus and attack the experts who could actually help us.
The rise of single-maintainer projects like SQLite and curl isn't an anomaly - it's the future. Why committees kill innovation and how solo developers or super focused teams with clear vision will reshape open source.
Why open source maintainers burn out: an autopsy of entitlement culture. Dropping legacy support triggered an email storm that perfectly demonstrates the parasitic mindset keeping us trapped in the past.
After 12 years maintaining state_machines, I dropped Rails 7.1 support. This is the story of why forever backward compatibility kills innovation and how I'm building for the future, not maintaining the past.
The surgical breakdown of a 1.6k LOC Ruby monolith into focused modules. Or: how I performed open-heart surgery on a dying codebase and lived to tell the tale.
Legacy support isn't just technical debt—it's innovation debt. Here's why I finally bumped my Ruby gem to require version 3.2.0 and why you should stop dragging corpses through your codebase.
When SQL queries become unmaintainable nightmares and simple questions require recursive CTEs, it's time to discover why graph databases are changing how we think about data relationships.
How open source contributions became immutable proof of skills, why GitHub matters more than LinkedIn, and the future where code speaks louder than credentials.
Beyond "people who write code" - the 15+ types of contributors that make open source projects thrive, and why every role matters in the digital ecosystem.
From critic to maintainer in one conversation: what happens when you complain about a gem and suddenly become responsible for fixing it.
The hidden costs of open source development that every Twitter advocate with a stable salary won't tell you about.
How to separate system prompts from project instructions for better AI development workflow using standardized metadata files.
How working with JRuby 10 and Rails 8 changed my perspective on the JVM, one reluctant commit at a time.
As an open-source maintainer, I'm yanking broken package versions. Here's why you should too.
The harsh reality check every aspiring AI entrepreneur needs to hear in 2025...
How I escaped the zoo of monkey patches and built a clean, Rails 8-friendly PostGIS adapter gem that actually works with modern Rails.
How building a Cypher DSL taught me more about framework design, why supporting legacy is a trap.
Exploring how analogies and metaphors enhance the learning process of Large Language Models.
Learn how graph databases and knowledge graphs can transform your RAG system from guessing to intelligent reasoning with structured data.
MCP Prompts aren't just templates—they're server-defined, discoverable scripts that bring preloaded sanity to your AI development workflow.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) isn't just a tool registry—it's a paradigm shift that turns AI assistants into true development partners.
When AI-driven speed meets open source ecosystems, we get 'vibe packages'—libraries published fast but maintained poorly. Here's the impact.
How AI coding assistants are influencing API design in Ruby, and whether we're reinforcing old patterns or creating new opportunities.
Rails AppVersion provides a standard way to handle version and environment information in Rails apps with best practices for deployment.
NoFlyList automatically detects your database type and uses specific optimization strategies to make tag queries blazingly fast.
Tag parsing seems simple until you handle real user input. Explore how NoFlyList's custom screening prevents malicious and spam tags.
Learn when to use polymorphic vs model-specific tags by building a blog platform. Understand the trade-offs and performance implications.
From technical debt in Acts-as-Taggable-On to production-ready NoFlyList: a journey of building cleaner, faster tagging for Rails apps.
