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Minimal JS, modern CSS anchored product tours
Railsdesigner iconRailsdesignerAug 20, 2026

Minimal JS, modern CSS anchored product tours

Originally appeared on Rails Designer Blog . Ever wondered how to build those interactive product tours that spotlight elements and walk users through your app? Ever wondered how you could with just roughly 100 lines of JS and modern CSS? Wonder now more, I will show and it will look like this: Yes, just around 100 LoC

Interviewed by a High School Entrepreneur
Robbyonrails iconRobbyonrailsAug 18, 2026

Interviewed by a High School Entrepreneur

Originally appeared on Robby on Rails . Earlier this summer, I heard from Ojal Kulkarni , a local high school student who found Planet Argon through the Portland Startup Community Slack . Her summer project was interviewing local business owners and entrepreneurs. We’d never met before, but a few weeks later we spent a

Design tokens: The building blocks of a design system
Aha iconAhaAug 18, 2026

Design tokens: The building blocks of a design system

Originally appeared on Aha! Engineering Blog . Implementing a design system at scale is often less about the pixels and more about the language we use to describe them. As a Senior Software Engineer at Aha! I've spent a lot of time thinking about how we can build a UI that is not only beautiful,

Banner or no banner, that’s the question
Rubyonrails iconRubyonrailsAug 22, 2026

Banner or no banner, that’s the question

Originally appeared on Ruby on Rails: Compress the complexity of modern web apps . Hi, it’s Claudio Baccigalupo . Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Add –no-banner to bin/rails console I love seeing the Rails logo when I run the console. If you disagree, bin/rails console --no-banner will remove i

Banks Talk to Each Other More Than They Talk to You
Joshsoftware iconJoshsoftwareAug 20, 2026

Banks Talk to Each Other More Than They Talk to You

Originally appeared on Josh Software . Every payment you send is a conversation between strangers who don’t trust each other. You open your UPI app. You type an amount. You enter your PIN. Two seconds later, a green checkmark appears. ₹500 sent successfully. It feels instant. It feels like money just travelled from you

The Hidden Life of a UPI ID
Joshsoftware iconJoshsoftwareAug 20, 2026

The Hidden Life of a UPI ID

Originally appeared on Josh Software . @ybl to @oksbi: the hidden architecture, ownership, and lifecycle of India’s payment identity. Open Google Pay. Tap “Create UPI ID.” Wait two seconds. Done. You now have rahul@oksbi. Here’s what nobody tells you: Google didn’t create that. Google Pay doesn’t own it. And if Google

Power in numbers, and Pat Allan
Hanakai iconHanakaiAug 19, 2026

Power in numbers, and Pat Allan

Originally appeared on Hanakai . Welcome to week two of our 2026 sponsorship drive ! Progress from week one We’ve had a great response since we kicked things off last week: we’ve had ten new individuals join as sponsors! If everyone sticks around for a year (we’ll make it worthwhile, I promise!), that will amount to a

The Persistence APIs That Skip the Record Lifecycle
Substack iconSubstackAug 23, 2026

The Persistence APIs That Skip the Record Lifecycle

Originally appeared on Rails Revelry . A support team suspends 37 accounts after a credential leak. The operation reports that all 27 rows changed, and a fresh query confirms that each account is now suspended . The rest of the application tells a less tidy story. The audit screen has no suspension entries. updated_at

SimpleCov is now version 1!
Fastruby iconFastrubyAug 20, 2026

SimpleCov is now version 1!

Originally appeared on The Rails Tech Debt Blog . Here at FastRuby.io we work with test suites and test coverage reports every single day, given our specialty. In the Ruby world that means we interact with SimpleCov every day. Not only that, we explicitely rely on SimpleCov reports in two of the open source projects we

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