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Operation: From State Hero to Zero
The surgical breakdown of a 1.6k LOC Ruby monolith into focused modules. Or: how I performed open-heart surgery on a dying codebase and lived to tell the tale.
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Complete navigation logs from the Ruby nebula—all coding adventures, cosmic experiments, and debugging missions.
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Software Is Not a Nursing Home: Breaking Free from Legacy Support
Legacy support isn't just technical debt—it's innovation debt. Here's why I finally bumped my Ruby gem to require version 3.2.0 and why you should stop dragging corpses through your codebase.
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The Graph Database Revolution
When SQL queries become unmaintainable nightmares and simple questions require recursive CTEs, it's time to discover why graph databases are changing how we think about data relationships.
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Your OSS Portfolio: Why GitHub is Your Real Resume
How open source contributions became immutable proof of skills, why GitHub matters more than LinkedIn, and the future where code speaks louder than credentials.
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The Ecosystem of OSS Contributors: More Than Just Code
Beyond "people who write code" - the 15+ types of contributors that make open source projects thrive, and why every role matters in the digital ecosystem.
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The Accidental Maintainer: How I Got Promoted by Complaining
From critic to maintainer in one conversation: what happens when you complain about a gem and suddenly become responsible for fixing it.
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The Reality Check Nobody Talks About: What OSS Actually Costs
The hidden costs of open source development that every Twitter advocate with a stable salary won't tell you about.
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Keep the System Prompt Clean: Why Developers Should Stop Mixing It With Project Instructions
How to separate system prompts from project instructions for better AI development workflow using standardized metadata files.
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My JRuby Saga: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and (Almost) Accept the JVM
How working with JRuby 10 and Rails 8 changed my perspective on the JVM, one reluctant commit at a time.
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The Big Yanking: Why I'm Removing Bogus Package Versions, and You Probably Should Too
As an open-source maintainer, I'm yanking broken package versions. Here's why you should too.
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Why Your AI Startup Idea Won't Make You the Next Big Shot (And What Actually Might)
The harsh reality check every aspiring AI entrepreneur needs to hear in 2025...
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Finding the Road Back Home: Building a Clean PostGIS Gem for Rails 8
How I escaped the zoo of monkey patches and built a clean, Rails 8-friendly PostGIS adapter gem that actually works with modern Rails.
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Building ActiveCypher: When Ruby Learns to Speak Graph
How building a Cypher DSL taught me more about framework design, why supporting legacy is a trap.
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LLMs Learn Better by Analogies and Metaphors
Exploring how analogies and metaphors enhance the learning process of Large Language Models.
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Smarter RAG Systems with Graphs
Learn how graph databases and knowledge graphs can transform your RAG system from guessing to intelligent reasoning with structured data.
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Prompts in MCP: Preloaded Sanity, Not Just Fancy Slash Commands
MCP Prompts aren't just templates—they're server-defined, discoverable scripts that bring preloaded sanity to your AI development workflow.
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If You Think MCP Is Just a Tool Registry, You’re Missing the Point
Model Context Protocol (MCP) isn't just a tool registry—it's a paradigm shift that turns AI assistants into true development partners.
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The Rise of 'Vibe Packages' in Open Source Development
When AI-driven speed meets open source ecosystems, we get 'vibe packages'—libraries published fast but maintained poorly. Here's the impact.
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LLMs and the Ossification of APIs: Are We Stuck with Prehistoric Patterns?
How AI coding assistants are influencing API design in Ruby, and whether we're reinforcing old patterns or creating new opportunities.
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Rails Version Management with Rails AppVersion
Rails AppVersion provides a standard way to handle version and environment information in Rails apps with best practices for deployment.
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NoFlyList: How NoFlyList Optimizes Tag Queries
NoFlyList automatically detects your database type and uses specific optimization strategies to make tag queries blazingly fast.
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NoFlyList: Custom Tag Screening with NoFlyList
Tag parsing seems simple until you handle real user input. Explore how NoFlyList's custom screening prevents malicious and spam tags.
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NoFlyList: Choosing Between Polymorphic and Model-Specific Tags
Learn when to use polymorphic vs model-specific tags by building a blog platform. Understand the trade-offs and performance implications.
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NoFlyList : How NoFlyList Got Cleared for Production
From technical debt in Acts-as-Taggable-On to production-ready NoFlyList: a journey of building cleaner, faster tagging for Rails apps.
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