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Originally appeared on Evil Martians . Authors: Anton Lovchikov, Head of Design, Yuri Mandrikov, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, DX, Agentic development AI has made implementing and enforcing design systems cheaper than ever. At the cost of speed, this falls through the cracks. But agentic
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Originally appeared on Karol Galanciak . Collecting a payment sounds like a reasonably well-defined problem. A traveler pays for a booking, the payment succeeds, and the property manager receives the money. Except that the property manager might only be entitled to part of it. The rest belongs to the owner. A booking c
Originally appeared on Rails Designer Blog . In last week’s announcement , I promised that when the built-in actions aren’t enough, you can write your own. Let me show you how, because this is what was bugging me most: why pull in another library when Attractive.js can do it as well? Next to that I will also highlight
Originally appeared on The Ruby on Rails Podcast . David is joined by Javier Cervantes, co-creator of the Ruby User Forum, to discuss the origins of the project and the need for a persistent gathering place for the Ruby community. After returning to Ruby following several years working with other technologies, Javier f
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
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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