# rails world (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover rails world. Page: Feed: --- ## [Nanoglyph 052 — Adrift, Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software, Balkans, Bears?!](https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/052-adrift) _2026-06-01 · Brandur Leach · Nanoglyph — brandur.org_ There’s something calming about being in Germany. People ride around on mechanical (not E-assisted) bikes. People pay for things in cash. An overwhelmingly common pastime is drinking beer beside the river like it’s 1984. A not-insignificant part of the population rebuilds cobblestone streets and sells white asparagus and strawberries on street corners. Aside from the smartphones that… ## [Nanoglyph 051 — Well, That Was Fast](https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/051-that-was-fast) _2026-05-18 · Brandur Leach · Nanoglyph — brandur.org_ A few months back I wrote about joining Stainless . Today, Anthropic acquires Stainless . It’s pretty surreal. Last year I experienced the whirlwind process of having our small company (Crunchy) acquired by Snowflake. Visiting Berlin at the time the deal went through, I was told that waiting until I got back to the US would be too long, so I was to report immediately to Snowflake Berlin to… ## [Nanoglyph 050 — API Spring](https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/050-api-spring) _2026-03-29 · Brandur Leach · Nanoglyph — brandur.org_ A short one today, mainly just to share a link. I wrote my first longer-form essay in a while: The Second Wave of the API-first Economy . When I first got to Silicon Valley, we had a lot of fun with APIs. During my first year at Heroku I spent considerable time breaking an API out of our Rails web app (in retrospect, maybe not a strongly defensible use of effort), then revamping our API with a… ## [Nanoglyph 049 — The Death Knell, Paradise](https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/049-paradise) _2026-02-22 · Brandur Leach · Nanoglyph — brandur.org_ I’d intended for last week’s edition on LLMs to be largely a one off. It mostly will be, but I’ve had a few amusing conversations on the subject since. An insight from an old colleague: Mark’s Law: any proponent of AI labor replacement is replaceable by AI. Words to live by? One might even consider it a moral imperative to help AI labor replacement proponents out of their… ## [Nanoglyph 048 — The AI Edition](https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/048-llms) _2026-02-08 · Brandur Leach · Nanoglyph — brandur.org_ Where did January go? I can’t answer that question. I got mine going in Austin doing a colocated kickoff where we tried to get the basic shape of our new Stainless product in place. That was followed by a few days at Stainless West (San Francisco), and now I’m back in Seattle. Somewhere in that span, January disappeared. Product-wise, we got to a point where what we built is demo-able,… ## [Ruby on Rails + Claude Code = Magic](https://mileswoodroffe.com/articles/claude-on-rails) _2026-02-04 · Miles Woodroffe · Miles Woodroffe_ 8 Months Ago ## [Nanoglyph 047 — Stainless](https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/047-stainless) _2026-01-19 · Brandur Leach · Nanoglyph — brandur.org_ Almost five years ago I wrote New Horizons as I left Stripe and went to work on databases at Crunchy. I can hardly believe it! Those years passed in the blink of an eye, eventually culminating with our acquisition by Snowflake last June. Welcome to Nanoglyph . Five years is a long time, and well, it happened again. Let me start by way of reminiscence. I know a guy (Alex) whom I worked with at… ## [Nanoglyph 046 — Negative, I am a YAML wrangler](https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/046-yaml) _2025-10-08 · Brandur Leach · Nanoglyph — brandur.org_ Readers – So they do have Starlink here — a nice upgrade from the last time I was in this part of the globe. I’m always late to the game when it comes to these things, but it’s my “wow, this technology is amazing” phase right now. Located on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific and getting 50 mbps up / 9.25 mbps down. That’s as good as Comcast can… ## [Nanoglyph 045 — Postgres 18](https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/045-postgres-18) _2025-09-29 · Brandur Leach · Nanoglyph — brandur.org_ Readers – It’s Christmas week for databases, with Postgres 18 released last Thursday . Postgres only ships new features once a year, so the annual major version cut is a time to stop, take note, and experiment a little. We usually wait for one minor release before upgrading production so that’ll be another month or two, but it’s something to start looking into.… ## [Nanoglyph 044 — STRAAT, iPhone Air](https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/044-straat) _2025-09-22 · Brandur Leach · Nanoglyph — brandur.org_ I’ve never written two issues of Nanoglyph so close together, but yesterday’s blast was running long, so I’m following it up with a brief point release. Last issue covered Rails World 2025 . Its closing party was at a museum in Amsterdam Noord called STRAAT . I knew there was a chance it’d be cool, but wasn’t prepared for what I got. The space is the size of an… ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VJBk9MB3kOQf) _2025-09-22 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [Nanoglyph 043 — Rails World 2025, the Event Horizon, the Ruby Embassy](https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/043-rails-world-2025) _2025-09-21 · Brandur Leach · Nanoglyph — brandur.org_ Readers – I recently attended the 2025 edition of Rails World in Amsterdam, my third year of the conference in a row. That sounds like a lot, but it’s the best event in technology, so I’ll keep going back as long as I can get tickets (it was very close this year). Like the inaugural Rails World in 2023, it was held in the gorgeous Beurs van Berlage, a stately building in central… ## [An Out of Body Experience with Turbo](https://mileswoodroffe.com/articles/out-of-body-experience-with-turbo) _2025-09-07 · Miles Woodroffe · Miles Woodroffe_ Messengers ## [Nanoglyph 042 — Service Resumed](https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/042-resumed) _2025-07-15 · Brandur Leach · Nanoglyph — brandur.org_ Readers — I’m just recently from a few weeks in Berlin. Going for a music festival, but taking the opportunity to stay a few extra weeks in one of my favorite cities. Before anything else, some usual housekeeping: I’m Brandur, and this is my newsletter Nanoglyph . It’s been comically delinquent bordering on absurdism, with this being the first issue in over a year. You may have… ## [Claude, Rails and me - An Inflection Point](https://mileswoodroffe.com/articles/claude-rails-and-me) _2025-06-14 · Miles Woodroffe · Miles Woodroffe_ TL;DR ## [Rails Rate Limiting](https://mileswoodroffe.com/articles/rails-rate-limiting) _2024-12-16 · Miles Woodroffe · Miles Woodroffe_ Setting the Scene ## [Solid Cable in Production with Kamal](https://mileswoodroffe.com/articles/solid-cable-in-production) _2024-12-02 · Miles Woodroffe · Miles Woodroffe_ Solid Cable in Production with Kamal ## [Super Solid Cable](https://mileswoodroffe.com/articles/super-solid-cable) _2024-11-27 · Miles Woodroffe · Miles Woodroffe_ Solid Cable ## [Upgrading to Kamal 2](https://mileswoodroffe.com/articles/kamal-2-upgrade) _2024-10-09 · Miles Woodroffe · Miles Woodroffe_ Kamal ## [Rails World 2024!](https://mileswoodroffe.com/articles/rails-world-2024) _2024-09-29 · Miles Woodroffe · Miles Woodroffe_ Rails World 2024