How to review AI generated PRs
Tips from a reasonable human for working with a team which uses AI too much.
Jardo.dev: Blog
Sometimes I blog about stuff.
Latest posts
Advent of Eternal Champions I
In which our Eternal Champion makes his way through the North Pole's secret entrance, his objective unknown.
Announcing Burg.rb
I made a web framework for Ruby. Well, not really. But kind of.
Do you guys really do TDD?
I got nerd-sniped by a Reddit post on Test-Driven Development. Sorry in advance.
Undervalued: The Most Useful Design Pattern
Let's explore how we can use data and value objects with the factory method pattern to help decouple the components of our software.
The “Git” “Hub” Part Is No Longer the Product
Microsoft announced today that the part of GitHub that matters to most people is not the purpose of the platform.
How to Tame Your Mastodon Feed
I'm a heavy Mastodon user and this is how I make sure I don't miss out on the good stuff.
Generating Custom Open Graph Images
Ever wonder how to generate Open Graph preview images like the one you might be looking at right now?
Let's Get Baked
Rake is great, but is Bake better? Let's go through setting it up on a new project to see!
Order-Driven Development
The direction from which you attack a program problem affects the result. I don't think that's controversial.
Code Reloading for Rack Apps
Rails gives us wonderful and reliable code reloading via Zeitwerk, but what do we do when we want that outside of our Rails apps?
Advent of Criminally Bad Ruby Code
Marco Roth and I collaborated on solving Advent of Code 2024 Day 5 with Ruby's most popular feature, refinements.
How to Fail at Solidus
Some tips on how to make the most of Solidus, or completely fail by doing the opposite.
The Agile Fluency Model and eCommerce
How can eCommerce teams improve their development processes?
The Rubby Game v0.1
I just finished playing the first iteration of a board game I created about building Ruby on Rails applications. It was actually kind of fun!
System tests haven't failed
What's with all the buzz about system tests in the Ruby on Rails community right now?
In Defence of Gerrit
I'm not saying we should all use Gerrit, but I am saying that using Gerrit early in my career made me a much better programmer.
Introducing Dead Code
I'm sorry. I started a podcast. Please subscribe to it.
Goodbye, Pivotal Tracker
Pivotal Tracker is shutting down. It might not have been perfect, but I'll still miss it.
Structure and Purpose
The structure of the code you write can communicate your intentions, making it easier to understand for other developers.