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In Meetings, Raise Hands Before Reading
Dblock iconDblockSep 19, 2026

In Meetings, Raise Hands Before Reading

Originally appeared on code.dblock.org | tech blog . I spent five and a half years at AWS before moving (back) to Microsoft, where I work today. At Amazon, many meetings began with silent reading. Instead of presenting a document, the author gave everyone time to read it before the discussion started. There was a small

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

Fastruby iconFastrubySep 22, 2026

What Happens to Your Ruby Tools With AI?

Originally appeared on The Rails Tech Debt Blog . When we talk about building with AI, most of the attention goes to what’s new. Models, agent frameworks, protocols, and tools seem to appear every week, making it easy to assume that adopting AI means introducing an entirely new technology stack. But Rails developers al

On the recent EuRuKo
Molnar iconMolnarSep 19, 2026

On the recent EuRuKo

Originally appeared on Greg Molnar . EuRuKo happened this week in Brno and even though I was planning to be there, I didn’t go at the end, and I’d like to explain why.

Rails World 2026 Update: Livestream & Sponsors
Rubyonrails iconRubyonrailsSep 18, 2026

Rails World 2026 Update: Livestream & Sponsors

Originally appeared on Ruby on Rails: Compress the complexity of modern web apps . As we gear up for Rails World 2026 next week, we’re so grateful to the companies showing up to make the first Rails World in the US a great one. Below you’ll find every company sponsoring Rails World, and what they are covering (because

Arko iconArkoSep 17, 2026

Beyond jj: config & tools ecosystem

Originally appeared on André Arko . This post was originally given as a talk at JJ Con 2026 . The slides are also available. Hello! Welcome to “beyond jj”, where we’re going to take a look at the jj ecosystem: commands, configurations, and tools made to work with jj. It’s partly a follow-up to my talk at JJCon last yea

Herb on Rails
Fastruby iconFastrubySep 22, 2026

Herb on Rails

Originally appeared on The Rails Tech Debt Blog . ERB does not know that it is generating HTML. It finds the <% %> tags, evaluates the Ruby inside them, and concatenates everything else as plain text. Whether the result is valid markup has never been its problem. Herb changes that. On August 25, 2026, the Ruby on Rails

Noteflakes iconNoteflakesSep 22, 2026

Extralite 3.1.0 is Here!

Originally appeared on Noteflakes . I’ve just released of Extralite version 3.1.0. This new release implements automatic caching of parametric queries, and updates the bundled SQLite to version 3.53.4. Extralite is a fast and innovative SQLite wrapper for Ruby with a rich set of features. It provides multiple ways of r

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