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Podcast interview with the creator of Ruby on Rails on the On Rails podcast.

Recent interview with Nikky Southerland, Lead Software Engineer at Shop-Ware — a cloud-based platform that helps independent automotive service shops run their businesses. Ruby on …

DHH recently joined me for a discussion on the On Rails podcast

I sat down with Brian Scanlan to explore what “AI-first” development actually looks like inside Intercom’s 15-year-old Rails monolith. They’re generating over 95% of their code wit…

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I'm hearing the same conversation play out at small software companies right now. Engineers telling their managers: am I being forced to adopt this, or do I need to go somewhere el…

A deep dive conversation with Simone (CTO of DNSimple) about how Rails fits into their DNS platform.

https://github.com/search?q=oh-my-+in%3Aname+is%3Apublic&typ...

I know this because I'm the guy in the middle. Let me explain. 2006: Trey Parker and Matt Stone write "Oh My Science!" into two Season 10 episodes... a joke about replacing religio…

Built a RAG tool in Ruby to surface historical context from Jira, Confluence, and GitHub before starting work on client tickets. No prior experience with embeddings or vector datab…

I wrote this after noticing how much framework discussion focuses on greenfield work. In practice, most teams I see are inside 10 or 12 year old systems, evolving them under real c…

For most of my career, I’ve helped companies maintain software that other teams walked away from. So I’ve never been a “just build it” person. But something has shifted.