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.
Posts tagged "ruby"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Breaking Chains: Why I Dropped Rails 7.1 Support in state_machines-activerecord 0.40.0
After 12 years maintaining state_machines, I dropped Rails 7.1 support. This is the story of why forever backward compatibility kills innovation and how I'm building for the future, not maintaining the past.
The Raw, Frustrating Journey Behind Rails Lens: A Decade of Code Rage, AI Sparks, and Finally Breaking Free
The unfiltered story of Rails Lens: ten years of frustration, harassment, theft, and finally breaking free to build something better. From TOML discoveries to AI validation, this is how persistence beats pattern parasites.
The Observability Trap: Why I Built Lapsoss to Break Vendor Chains
How the observability industry's vendor lock-in tactics led to building Lapsoss and the Liberation Stack - community-owned tools that put developers back in control
The RubyGems Coup: When Parasites Take the Host
Ruby Central forcibly removed the people who built RubyGems for over a decade, replacing them with a 'Director of Open Source' whose last Ruby code was a conference tutorial in 2010. This is the anatomy of a hostile takeover disguised as 'strengthening stewardship.'
The Q&A Aftermath: Ruby Central's Governance Crisis Deepens
Ruby Central's Q&A happened, but the real story emerged from a board member's confession and a maintainer's devastating rebuttal revealing the full scope of the governance breakdown.
The Q&A Aftermath: A Board Member Confesses, A Maintainer Rebuts
Hours after Ruby Central's Q&A, board member Freedom Dumlao broke ranks to explain his vote. Martin Emde's devastating response exposes the lies Ruby Central told their own board.
The Puppet Master: How Shopify Orchestrated Ruby Central's Hostile Takeover
The smoking gun revealed - Shopify threatened to pull funding unless Ruby Central seized control of RubyGems. hsbt was the insider who enabled it. The rv project was seen as a threat. This is the full story of corporate capture.
The Security That Wasn't: Ruby Central's Theater Exposed
Joel Drapper's technical investigation reveals the smoking gun - Ruby Central's "security measures" left Andre with full production access while removing his GitHub permissions. David Rodriguez loses gem ownership with only 1 of 8 owners consenting. This wasn't security. It was theater with screenshots to prove it.
When 'Simple Refactoring' Isn't Simple: A Pattern Recognition Exercise (Part 1)
I spend time in scammer communities studying grift patterns. When I saw RubyCademy's "simple refactoring" advice, something clicked. This isn't about one bad tweet - it's about recognizing the laboratory system that turns confused developers into revenue streams.
The Ruby Developer's Guide to Warp Speed: Why I Learned Go
After years of comfortable cruising through the Ruby nebula, I discovered something that changed everything. This is the story of why a die-hard Rubyist decided to learn Go—and what I found on the other side.
The Quantum State Rebellion: Why Enums Are Not State Machines
When half the mining fleet switched to using simple Rails enums for state management, chaos ensued. Ships transitioned from operational to vacuum exposure without validation, weapons fired randomly, and life support systems failed catastrophically. This is the story of how Captain Seuros proved that enums are not state machines, and why the state_machines gem saved the fleet from disaster.
The Quantum Infiltrator Protocol: Captain Cyrel's Graph Database Gambit
When a quantum shapeshifter infiltrates the Federation's antimatter supply chain, Captain Cyrel of the USS ActiveCypher must use graph database technology to track an enemy that exists in relationships, not rows. A thrilling tale of how ActiveCypher brings Rails conventions to the graph database revolution.
Arming the State Guards: Captain Seuros vs. The 9-Year GitHub Issue
How a Moroccan captain finally implemented the most requested state_machines feature after 9 years of maintainer paralysis. Featuring the RMNS Atlas Monkey and emergency warp protocols.