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Rails World ‘26: Herb and ReActionView
Fastruby iconFastrubySep 29, 2026

Rails World ‘26: Herb and ReActionView

Originally appeared on The Rails Tech Debt Blog . I watched Marco Roth’s talk at Rails World 2026, and it left me excited about where the Rails view layer is headed. Marco has spent the last couple of years building Herb, an HTML-aware ERB parser that is on its way into Rails 8.2 core, and at Rails World he showed what

Hardly Promethean
Jardo iconJardoSep 29, 2026

Hardly Promethean

Originally appeared on Jardo.dev: Blog . Last week I published What About Rails , a dive into DHH's Rails World keynote. Smarter people than me had interesting things to say about it: You have the most powerful tool you ever had, you have become a 1000x maker, and you can't think of how to make your stack 10x better? J

Rails World ‘26: Lexxy for Action Text
Fastruby iconFastrubySep 28, 2026

Rails World ‘26: Lexxy for Action Text

Originally appeared on The Rails Tech Debt Blog . I was in the audience at Rails World 2026 for Jorge Manrubia’s talk on Lexxy, a new rich text editor for Action Text. Jorge is a Principal Programmer at 37signals, and if you’ve used Active Record Encryption, you’ve used something he built. Jorge explained why 37signals

Lexxy 1.0 is here
37signals icon37signalsSep 28, 2026

Lexxy 1.0 is here

Originally appeared on 37signals Dev . Today we are releasing the version 1.0 of Lexxy . Lexxy is a rich text editor for Rails built on Lexical . It already powers Basecamp , Fizzy and many others, and it will become the default editor in Rails. I recently presented it in Rails World ( slides , video coming soon). This

Arkency iconArkencySep 27, 2026

6 levels of knowledge management maturity in organizations

Originally appeared on Hi, we're Arkency . 6 levels of knowledge management maturity in organizations “Zapomniałem” is Polish for “I forgot”. On Arkency’s Slack, our main communication channel, it has been used over 1200 times. And I truly believe I work with exceptionally organized and meticulous people. That only con

What About Rails?
Jardo iconJardoSep 24, 2026

What About Rails?

Originally appeared on Jardo.dev: Blog . David Heinemeier Hansson is, for better or worse, still in charge of Ruby on Rails. I'd love to stop paying attention to him, but I build applications with Rails, so his actions affect me and my clients. Yesterday, he gave the opening keynote at Rails World 2026, where he laid o

What Jev Is (and Isn’t): A Model for Decisions
Ombulabs iconOmbulabsSep 24, 2026

What Jev Is (and Isn’t): A Model for Decisions

Originally appeared on OmbuLabs.ai . On September 15, 2026, TypeSafe announced Jev , the first of what they call System One models. The launch came with a very low price, a lot of speed claims, and the promise that it “can’t hallucinate”. The obvious first question is whether this is just another Large Language Model (

The Two Cheapest Agent Eval Signals Both Fail
Ombulabs iconOmbulabsSep 23, 2026

The Two Cheapest Agent Eval Signals Both Fail

Originally appeared on OmbuLabs.ai . Once a team stops trusting leaderboards, the next move is usually to build an evaluation of its own. We’ve argued before that benchmark scores are a poor predictor of production agent performance , and the natural follow-up question is what to measure instead. Two answers come up al

Run the Rails Agent Benchmark Yourself
Fastruby iconFastrubySep 29, 2026

Run the Rails Agent Benchmark Yourself

Originally appeared on The Rails Tech Debt Blog . Last month the Rails Foundation published something the Ruby on Rails community had not seen before: a leaderboard of coding agents scored on real Rails work. The first Agents on Rails report topped out at 92% in the Accuracy column for the best model tested, which is r

Good Morning, Dave: the 1998 INET Conference Kiosk Launcher
Dblock iconDblockSep 29, 2026

Good Morning, Dave: the 1998 INET Conference Kiosk Launcher

Originally appeared on code.dblock.org | tech blog . In July 1998, the Internet Society held INET ‘98, “The Internet Summit”, at Palexpo in Geneva. The University of Geneva provided about 250 computers for the conference, and I was a student there. I wrote much of the conference network’s website, www.inet98.ch , and t

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