UX guy gone dev, lover of Stimulus Reflex
37signals has a new product Fizzy. I don’t care much for the product, a kanban board. But the amazing thing is that all the code is open source . And Jorge Manrubia has made two videos where he goes through the codebase and answers questions. Video 1: How we architect Rails apps at 37signals: a Fizzy tour Video 2: Addressing assorted Rails questions about Fizzy: testing, fixtures, AI, the…
I don’t have any original takes on AI. But I struggle with some of it: It makes me lazy, it changes my relationsship to the code. It makes me lazy. When doing something, it is so inviting to ask AI to do it and see what it comes up with. To make it the feature just work and defer scrutinizing the approach. I know, I don’t have to use AI this way, but I often end up using it that way…
I got to enjoy another delightful helvetic ruby conference this year. This year we went to Geneva. Workshop: Riffin’ on Rails with Kasper The day before the actual conference, Helvetic Ruby offered two workshops and a community meetup this year. They were offered at no additional cost. Quite the offer at the low cost of 160 CHF (for late bird tickets)! We saw Kasper, a former rails core…
Another helvetic ruby conference after just six month, how lucky we are! Generous hallway track Helvetic ruby 2024 was a single track one day conference. The schedule was mostly like this: half an hour of talk, followed by half an hour of a break. This gave plenty of space to the hallway track. Personally I loved this format and giving that much space to exchange among the attendees. And while I…
What a wonderful conference! I participated the first instance of Helvetic Ruby in my home city of Bern. Good mix of talks: Starting on the topic of performance and ending with an actual performance There was a good mix of talks, from talking about app performance, to SQL configuration tricks, how to bootstrap your business all the way to an introduction and a musical performance with…
The very first RailsWorld conference, organized by the Rails Foundation , has concluded at the beautiful venue of Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Approximately 700 attendees joined in to look at the future of Rails. RailsWorld 2023 was in many ways a “Hotwire” edition The opening keynote and six talks primarily revolved around Hotwire, or you could count it as seven if you…