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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

7 months ago

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...