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.
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.
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.
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.