Stephen

Sad I wasn't at Euruko this year but instead I had a great first week at SparkLoop as a new member of their product team. Very happy euruko is in Italy next year!

Using my sentiero gem (www.sentiero.app) in production now (still got rough edges but Im working on them). So useful to see user journeys and be able to immediately respond with UX/UI improvements, fixes and content updates... all while knowing the data is stored in house and purged regularly.

Just pushed up a version of my `decor` (github.com/stevegeek/de...) UI view components gem to gem.coop which I will only be publishing there

Just saw this evilmartians.com/chronicles/a... , and yes def feeling the AI assisted burnout. The rate of constant high cognitive load (as they put it) work is exhausting. Everything is "just one more prompt", or "just one more subagent" away...

I’m really excited about this. Phlex and Literal are joining the Ruby Users Forum, replacing our GitHub discussions. You can get support from me and others in the community over there. ❤️

When new TLDs get launched, who decides its worth adding them or not.. i look at some of them and wonder, eg `.gripe` ...

Really enjoying @exe.dev so far. Create a VM in seconds, and then you can use a coding agent via a web interface on the box to quickly get stuff setup. I went from nothing to deployed postgres on one VM, a Rails app in another, with tailscale to network them in a few minutes.

Lovely time at @rubyconitaly.bsky.social . so nice to get to hang out with a community of people who are all just really nice and friendly. + great talks, and great food. Thanks everyone! Wish I was still in Rimini instead of blocked jn traffic (truck on fire in motorway tunnel up a head I think… 😬)

Working with claude on porting basecamp/writebook to an equivalent crystal Marten app to see what it entails

Been fleshing out a turbo-rails Crystal shard equivalent for Marten framework. Interested to see if I can port a typical "modern" Rails app over (ie uses Turbo etc)

Two new gem extractions today: github.com/stevegeek/ty... and github.com/stevegeek/ty... ... open source all the things

Finally, after too many years, I've pushed 1.0.0 of typed_operation gem. Blurb: a command pattern, callable, chainable, traceable, can be partially applied, curried and w. typed params. Auth to execute via action_policy if desired. rubygems.org/gems/typed_o... / beta.gem.coop/@stephen/typ...

Just having a look at Avo 4 by @avohq.io ... looks amazing! Can't wait to do the upgrades. Nice work @adrianthedev.com and team!

gem.coop are cooking up some great features for their gem host/registry. Looking forward to watching it evolve

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"Pushing gem to beta.gem.coop/@stephen ... yaml_csp_config-1.2.0.gem uploaded 🎉" Pushed my first gem to my new namespace.

Anyone stopped using a 'traditional' CI in favour of the new "local ci" (ci.rb) approach in Rails? Had any issues? eg cause of diff between local env vs a remote envs?

Went to my first LRUG on Monday in London, great experience. Shame there are not a lot of Ruby meet ups in Italy

Combining prosopite gem, a custom logger for it, a simple CSV store, and a set of rake tasks for querying the store, I can automatically persist the N+1s that come up in my Rails app as I work on it and have a Claude Code subagent work through them in the background. Nice

Wanted Topaz Video/Gigapixel working on Linux via Wine (& prime-run) but my external GPU was not detected. Claude Code did so much experimentation: rebuilding libs w. logging, disassembling topaz DLLs etc, til it found root cause, then binary patched it (skips a check in a DLL). Works now, Amazed..

My new gem ‘hone’ is now running on charm-ruby (not pushed yet as hit a snag that raises a Go exception) Can I say : First!

Wow amazing! Thanks again @marcoroth.dev

Interesting, came across another ‘typed’ Ruby - https://github.com/type-ruby/t-ruby Seems similar to couple of other attempts (emits RBS), eg myrb and claret Added to my list https://github.com/stars/stevegeek/lists/typed-ruby/

In addition to new language features * Lots new in the threading chapter, including Ractor updates and a section on concurrent-ruby and Async * The typed Ruby chapter has a section on Literal * Lots of small cleanups and updates

We were very proud to present @marcoroth.dev with the Rails Luminary Award 2025. And yes, I was on a secret mission to Zurich 😀. rubyonrails.org/2025/12/17/m...

LLM agents are taking over so have decided to split my personal computing from work related (ie for privacy, data security etc) Just received my little work machine, a Ryzen 9950X with 64GB RAM, should speed up the test suite runs at least!

Remember, always run your coding agents inside containers github.com/anthropics/c...

Got bombed with random bot requests for .js files on a Rails app. The Ruby processes pegged at 100% CPU. Think it was cause Rails was raising and logging large number of ActionController::InvalidCrossOriginRequest exceptions. Time to add that missing `rescue_from`

Finally releasing 1.0.0 of my `encoded_id` gems (started 7 yrs ago in a client app) Use it to turn IDs into obfuscated reversible & human friendly strings. https://github.com/stevegeek/encoded_id (docs also have comparison to other similar gems to help you decide what to use)

Been finding optimising sqids-ruby and hashids.rb interesting. Wonder if I should turn the experience into a talk proposal for a conference... ie we live code through finding hotspots in some gem, try optimisations and consider why result performs better or not, and trade offs vs readability etc ? 🤷

This looks great, def going to try

Herb v0.8 is here! 🚀 The biggest release yet, packed with new language bindings, Linter Autofix support, Linter Fix-on-Save, a new `.herb.yml` config file, formatter improvements, Tailwind Class Sorting integration, and a ton of performance, tooling and LSP improvements! 🌿

Straight away Herb found 7 erb files with missing closing tags in the HTML and approx 130 linting errors such as missing alt tags, pointless use of `-%>`, anchor tags without an `href` etc. And parses all 555 erb files in 3-4 seconds. Really cool!

Today: removing `erb_lint` and my IDE tw CSS class sorting plugin... and adding `Herb` ❤️

Also coming in Herb v0.8.0, the long awaited Tailwind CSS class sorting feature in the Herb Formatter! 🌿 Here is a demo of that working in @zed.dev using the new `.herb.yml` configuration file! 😍

I was recently thinking about adding benchmarking across multiple Ruby versions with my `awfy` tool, and this looks perfect for managing that!