I tend to like writing tests more than the average Joe. For me, there’s something really satisfying about using a test to figure out how I want an API surface to feel, iterating on the failing test...

I oppose the USPTO’s proposed rule changes for inter partes review (IPR), Docket No. PTO-P-2025-0025. Patents are a critical tool for enabling/protecting innovators, but that very protection backf...

The last few months have been full of boom and bust stories about “vibe coding” – the phenomenon where an individual can produce a working app by asking an AI tool to generate and edit code. Hypest...

Last week I had the privilege of attending Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam. I learned a ton! and I met lots of amazing people! Here’s my story… Wednesday – Early Arrival + Volunteering I arrived in...

Introduction Many guides start by showing how to build an application locally, but entirely omit guidance for deploying that application to a production environment – often because each organizati...

TL;DR def is_on_basic_multilingual_plane(char): return int(char.encode().hex(), 16) <= 0xFFFF Backstory Recently, I was programmatically moving a few hundred thousand documents to a cloud...

TL;DR docker rm $(docker ps -a | grep Exited | cut -d " " -f 1) How it works Recently, I forgot to include --rm when running a bunch of throwaway containers, so my system was cluttered with load...

Today I learned that Git ships with a built-in web interface for a code repository. Here’s how to set it up! Open a terminal Navigate to a Git repository on your computer Start the instaweb...

“Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.” – Doug McIlroy, the inventor of Unix pipes (source) Today, for the Nth time I got stuck while trying to redir...

Solved a really involved bug today… Some of our B2B customers were unable to email invoices to their clients, delaying incoming payments. My coworker traced the problem to the built-in Python fun...