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Nano Banana hides behind Google's chat endpoint. Here's the straight line to ship it with RubyLLM.

I've been thinking about how we approach accessibility in web development. Particularly about trusting the browser to implement things in an accessible way.

How container queries help move an element to the opposite side of its parent container when both have dynamic responsive dimensions.

How the most common type of document maps to delegation

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I've been signing my Git commits since 2020, and it's one of those security practices that seems...

The personal blog of Dave Rupert, web developer and podcaster from Austin, TX.

Rails 8.1 represents the work of over 500 contributors across 2500 commits since our last major release. After some weeks of people trying the betas and releases candidates, we are excited to share the final release.

Let’s try to peer behind the curtain and figure out the answer to these questions. Doing so has a couple of important benefits:

Learn how to design and build effective tools to be used by AI Agents

AsterMind-ELM is a modular, Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) library for JavaScript and TypeScript. We speak to its creator.

Build a Kanban board with columns and cards with Rails and Hotwire.

We get attached to code - sometimes to a fault. Old migrations are exactly that. They’re digital hoarding at its finest, cluttering up your codebase with files that serve absolutely no purpose other than to make you feel like you’re preserving some kind of historical record. But here’s the brutal truth: your old migrations are utterly useless. They’re worse than useless - they’re actively harmful. They’re taking up space, they are confusing (both for you and new developers on the project), and they give you a false sense of security about your database’s evolution. If your database is out-of-sync with schema.rb you need to solve that problem anyway, and - if anything - the migrations make that problem worse.

Learn how to orchestrate AI agents in Claude Code to multiply your development output. No frameworks, just folders and markdown that turn one developer into five specialists.

The Rails router's direct method lets you create custom url and path helpers, which is especially useful for polymorphic models and delegated types. This post shows how to use a single custom helper to generate URLs for different models, with a practical example from the open source Maybe project.

Rails 8 is out. And with it Kamal 2, the new default way of deploying Rails apps. But Kamal is hard for the uninitiated. This is a complete tutorial on how to get a Rails app fully in production using Kamal.

Learn how to implement authentication in Rails API-only applications using generators. Step-by-step guide covering setup, configuration, and best practices for secure API authentication.

From basic setup to advanced MCP integration: using Dev Containers for portable development environments that eliminate "works on my machine" problems.

Look through some of the best custom elements on the planet.

Across performance reviews, design decisions, and strategic communication, AI tools can reduce overhead and amplify the impact of strong management. 

Organizational change can rock the foundations of any team. But knowing the reasoning behind the shift can open all sorts of doors.

Learn some ways to help encourage action when you feel unmotivated.

An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.

New to Postgres 18, features like asynchronous i/o, uuid v7, b-tree skip scans, and virtual generated columns.

From the very beginning of Slack, MySQL was used as the storage engine for all our data. Slack operated MySQL servers in an active-active configuration. This is the story of how we changed our data storage architecture from the active-active clusters over to Vitess — a horizontal scaling system for MySQL. Vitess is the present…