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Benchmarks Are Free Now
9 days ago
My previous post walked through four bugs in ruby-enum, a gem I...
Ruby Instance Variables Are Not Inherited (and Why That Breaks Your DSL)
10 days ago
The ruby-enum gem is a small library I maintain that adds enum-like...
Generating AI Descriptions of Automated Pull Requests
13 days ago
The slack-ruby-client library, an open source Ruby gem I maintain, runs a...
Coding with AI Agents is Now a Baseline Expectation for Managers
4 months ago
AI-first Engineering is now the operating default in many organizations, including mine...
How I Made $360 by Serving Markdown from My Jekyll Blog
5 months ago
In April 2025 I wrote Apologizing for My Obsessiveness Over Punctuation, a...
Opening Proprietary Code to Contributors Checklist
5 months ago
Before AI coding assistants, a typical engineering team built expertise with the...
AI Slop: A Slack API Rate Limiting Disaster
6 months ago
Yesterday I described AI-generated code as “plausible-looking, locally coherent, globally wrong.” Here’s...
Right-Sizing Engineering Teams for AI
6 months ago
Before AI coding assistants, a typical engineering team of 8-10 people might...
The Golden Ratio of Manager to IC
7 months ago
In today’s shocker, Meta is to “create a new applied AI engineering...
Serving Markdown for AI Agents
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Dries Buytaert recently wrote about The Third Audience. For decades, websites have...
Turning Hypermedia APIs into MCPs
11 months ago
I’ve written and talked extensively about Hypermedia APIs for about a decade...
Using AI to Reduce the Burden of Status Reporting
12 months ago
One of the negative side effects of having any top-down command structure...