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the banana tapping its foot to the beat is a nice touch.

The process at my company ( 1. Phone screen with tech lead / manager. 2. Take home 2-3 hour code challenge where you have to build something. No leet code questions - it’s a challe…

All the time. We use Optimizely which allows us to roll features out to subsets of users and run experiments. It also allows us to keep PRs smaller and roll stuff out to prod confi…

All I’m saying is I switched my default search on my phone and browser to ddg (just to try it out) and the results have been good enough to not make me switch back to google.

I recently stopped using google and switched my default to DuckDuckGo. So far I haven't needed to go back to google for anything.

Using rails 7 at work and we’re building new features with Hotwire and sprinkles of stimulusjs. So far so good. Happy and productive as promised.

I’d bet against this. Ruby has a great community and Rails 7 is looking amazing. Dynamic typing is very much alive and well.

Um... https://twitter.com/ShopifyEng/status/1465806691543531525

It's totally worth it imo. The performance degradation for 99% of web app use cases is negligible compared to the productivity increases. My team switched from a node/react environ…

I like creating a service/coordination layer between controllers and models to put the business logic. Controllers call the services or coordinators which can interact with models,…

People who say rails is dead or obsolete have no idea what they are talking about. Rails is better than ever, the core community has stayed strong even while everyone hopped on the…

Rails just keeps getting better and better. It’s an exciting time to be a Rails dev.

I am so excited to upgrade and get rid of webpacker. Thank you Rails team! <3

+1 Stimulus. My team has been using it in a Rails app and it’s a joy to work with. We threw out our React front end and don’t miss it at all.

A very talented junior engineer joined our team. He puts a lot of pressure on himself and gets very bummed out when something he does isn’t perfect. He tries to do a million things…

I like keeping in touch with former colleagues and friends and giving them a thumbs up when they share something they are proud of. I’m grateful to have some sense of job security …

Listening to music. Back in the day I listened to the radio, I bought cds and vinyl and listened to entire albums and looked at every detail of the album art. I went record shoppin…