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Learn about an unexpected limitation with this API and how to combat it universally.

I originally wrote this as a doc, and did a talk w/ slides in Fall 2020 at Convoy. This is very focused on how to work in a software engineering team (surprise! that’s most of what I know about!) but I’ve had friends say they’ve shown this to their partners,...

Chief Product and Technology Officer Michael Manapat on Notion’s evolving internal processes, product reviews, planning cadences, and increasing shift to synchronous communication

I'm generally a rather pedantic person and this is supercharged when it comes to managing the git history on my projects. I used GitHub's squash and merge for a while before Chris Moore taught me a few tricks. I'm not a fan of squash and merge because it squashes an entire Pull Request into a single commit, no matter how large it is. This means that rather large changes could live under a single commit. I believe the commit history should tell a linear story, as pretentious as that might...

Rails 7.1 adds ActiveRecord::Base::normalizes API to normalize attribute values to a common format before saving them to the database.

Use gateway classes to organize external API integrations and establish a clearer separation of concerns.

Thanks to the Open UI working community group, there’s a new element on the horizon, <selectmenu>, that will make styling this type of form control a whole lot better. You’re going to walk through an early implementation of this new experimental element by creating a pattern that you would never have thought possible with CSS alone — a radial selection menu.

How to design a queueing system to manage complex background jobs

An intro to Rails Engines are an architectural pattern that can be used to modularize or pack a Rails application. An article about this powerful feature in Rails.

If you want to add many attachments to a record using just a file field, but you don’t want to remove the previous images from the record on every update, like in the following code:

Hi, this week I want to tell you about an improvement coming in Rails 7.1. When you are using the link_to helper, it can infer the URL from the object you are passing to it as the second parameter:

This article is a deep dive into blocks, procs, and lambdas that will help you to understand how these functions differ from each other.

Creating recommendations with pgvector, ruby-openai, and the neighbor gem.

Discover the ins and outs of logging in Ruby, including how to customize your logs and use logging libraries like Lograge.

When discussing team organization, I am often asked: “Why don’t you have the tech lead manage the team?” My response is to hiss like a…

The contents of a <code>map</code> block should probably be an instance method on each item.

Taking a look at how to use a Common Table Expression in Active Record queries in Rails 7.1+

Improve Rails code by using these design patterns: Builder, Decorator, Form, Interactor, Observer, Policy, Presenter, Query, Service, Value

This post explores how flog, a tool that analyzes the complexity of your code, can identify areas to refactor.

When saving computed values in the database in your rails app, you must be aware that is possible to find unexpected errors in the result thanks to race conditions. Here I want to help you visualize how race conditions can make you save incorrect...

An exclusive interview with the four researchers behind a new developer productivity framework: The three dimensions of DevEx

In my early days of coding I used to get quickly frustrated when my code didn't run. It felt like I...

If you don’t have time for introducing more significant changes, try implementing smaller yet powerful design patterns.

In this post we're going to be looking at not one but two new exciting things coming to CSS, the...

Chris has some tips for working with Ruby on Rails and ActiveRecord and using better SQL to improve performance and avoid N+1 queries.