I currently have some availability for an additional freelance client.
I've been doing #ruby since 2004 or so, and #rails since v1.
I'm also reasonably competent in #JS/#TS (more BE than FE), #python, and #go. If FP is your thing, I can do #elixir, #gleam, or #ocaml, though of the three, I only used Elixir (Phoenix) in production.
All that said, almost all of my recent contracts were for Fractional CTO/Engineering Lead roles.
If any of that sounds interesting, HMU.
As expected, the ~65% #RSpec test coverage meant that there have been several issues which came up during manual testing, including some very pleasantly head-scratching ones 🧠
e.g. Yesterday I Learned about #ActiveRecord's overloading of the #Ruby "shovel" ("<<") operator, and a couple of weeks ago I started a foray into #Rails YAML serialisation, which seems to have changed quite a bit between versions, leading to inconsistently-formatted data in the database, and the exciting prospect of writing a data migration that runs raw SQL queries 😵
#Levelfly #Ruby / #Rails upgrade 2026 update: we Put Together a team! 🤩
Delighted to be linked back up with one of the CUNY / BMCC academics who originally initiated (and is still using) Levelfly, and a seasoned tester & project manager from Neuronic. We're full-tilt to try and get this update finished in time for the next cohort of students who will be using the software soon.
If you’ve also just woken up after the holidays, we’ve extended the CFP deadline until the end of January. Bring your fresh ideas to share with the community. We’d love to hear from you.
https://www.papercall.io/balticruby2026
#balticruby #conference #rubycommunity #cfp #ruby #rails #opensource
If you’ve also just woken up after the holidays, we’ve extended the CFP deadline until the end of January. Bring your fresh ideas to share with the community. We’d love to hear from you.
https://www.papercall.io/balticruby2026
#balticruby #conference #rubycommunity #cfp #ruby #rails #opensource
Probably making a Docker image for a #Ruby on #Rails project that's 137MB is one of my proudest achievements of 2025 😁 https://hub.docker.com/layers/neuronicgames/levelfly/rails-upgrade/images/sha256-7016ca0fcf124adac49471294f30b3453fbe7af15fcf78d8a7d18643d8ecd904
Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith
https://catalinionescu.dev/ai-agent/building-ai-agent-part-1/
#HackerNews #Building #AI #Rails #Monolith #Agent #AI #Development #Software #Engineering
#ruby / #rails / #programming hill that i’ll die one— service objects considered harmful
🤮 NounVerber.run .exec .call
I prefer to use a PORO
🥰 Noun.verb
But that’s just me, what do I know
Be Careful with GIDs in Rails
https://blog.julik.nl/2025/12/a-trap-with-global-ids
#HackerNews #BeCarefulWithGIDs #Rails #GlobalIDs #SoftwareDevelopment #WebDevelopment #RubyOnRails
#dhh being normal
｢ A morbid side-effect of his condition is that his body is still alive, walking around, delivering keynote addresses at confs and screeds on social media. Yet he exists only as a macabre meat puppet, his sinews pulled taut, controlled entirely by the brain parasite he contracted from a WhatsApp group chat. This state of affairs is upsetting, and confusing, but it bears repeating: the man we knew and loved as dhh is gone ｣
Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)
https://railsdesigner.com/custom-elements/
#HackerNews #BuildingOptimisticUI #Rails #CustomElements #UIDevelopment #FrontendDevelopment
I finally wrote and deployed my first #django app this week.
I have played with #rails and #phoenix for the past few decades, but I haven’t dug hard into django as every app i have worked on or overseen would not benefit much from the admin interface.
I am the only one working on this app, and it's for me only, and I didn't care if the admin interface adhered to a very specific design spec. In fact, i am the only one wjho will probably ever see the admin interface.
More attached…
in all, I spent about three days to go from sketch to deployed app. Most of that was spent figuring out how non-trivially connect to @digitalocean Spaces.
The rest was really not bad.
if you have already been writing software for a bazillion years, and understand a few webframeworks, here are a few links that will get you up and running (and done):
https://www.mostlypython.com/django-from-first-principles-2/
I finally wrote and deployed my first #django app this week.
I have played with #rails and #phoenix for the past few decades, but I haven’t dug hard into django as every app i have worked on or overseen would not benefit much from the admin interface.
I am the only one working on this app, and it's for me only, and I didn't care if the admin interface adhered to a very specific design spec. In fact, i am the only one wjho will probably ever see the admin interface.
More attached…
Had a bit of a look back again at discussion around the #Rails leadership problem, and it seems clear that the Rails Core team is 100% on board the DHH train - there seems to be no dissent at all.
So I guess asking them to take action is pointless, and a complete fork is the only way. I wonder if there are many ex-Rails core people out there who would be willing to step back in to help get a community fork off the ground...
