Dec 28
My 2025 AI Developer Year In Review
A look back at how AI transformed my development workflow in 2025, from tentative experiments to full integration.
Building things that matter, one prompt at a time.
Husband, father, bootstrapped founder, and purveyor of fine Ruby on Rails applications. Writing about code, life, business, and building with AI.
Recent Writing
View all posts →Nov 04
Render Components from Turbo Broadcasts
Creating a Rails initializer that extends Turbo Streams broadcasts to support rendering Phlex or ViewComponent components directly, eliminating the need for...
Nov 01
Solid Queue in Development
Configuring Rails 8's SolidQueue to run in a separate process during development instead of using the default async adapter, with setup instructions for...
Oct 31
Plucking Nice
Learning that ActiveSupport provides a pluck method similar to ActiveRecord, allowing cleaner extraction of specific attributes from collections without...
Oct 08
Building a Multi-Step Job with ActiveJob
Creating a SteppedJob base class using Shopify's JobIteration gem to break down complex background jobs into trackable, resumable steps with clear mental models...