Jeremy Smith

I started a podcast with my twin brother @silvenon.com! 🎙️ We talked about doing this for a long time, and finally recorded the first episode of "Broworking Space" 😌 We talk about Git, worktrees (not workspaces 😅) and some tips for parallel agents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwVe...

In the past 2 weeks, using Claude's built-in browser for college applications with my son and insurance quotes has been a real eye-opener. Now I never want to navigate complex interfaces without a pair partner who removes the tedium, answers questions & helps my second-guessing.

Do I know anyone doing devrel for agentic companies?

"The review is mostly right, and on the main point it's more right than it knows." Don't ever change, you weirdo.

This year, Spinel is supporting the 2027 Gem Fellowship. Applications open on December 1, but companies can sign up to sponsor Fellows today. Learn more and join us: spinel.coop/blog/help-us...

There's this scene in The Abyss that I think about a lot, where Ed Harris' character puts on experimental diving suit and has to transition from breathing air to a special oxygenated liquid. The past year has felt like that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_XS...

Hi, I'm a never-upgrader still running macOS Ventura. For people living in the future, will I be happy to upgrade or do you wish you were back here?

@jeremysmith.co wrote it up, you basically outlined it

I wonder how many mobile issues would be discovered and fixed if desktop Chrome's window min width was 320px instead of 500px. 🤔 I always do this before opening dev tools.

One thing that's been bugging me about the software "factory" analogy is that you never actually produce the same thing twice. But TIL in manufacturing they have flow shops and job shops. Sounds like job shop may be the closer analogy.

At some point a while back I told Claude I wanted it to always make a prediction before running a verification or diagnostic (e.g. one-off test, task, or prod query). I've found this to be a really helpful high-level instruction.

Really pumped to have this episode out! ✊ Kelsey and Zack are awesome, and it was great to hear both what and how they are building. ☺️

Rails developers, if you are in the market, this is a great team - apply.workable.com/kode-health...

It just hit me that this past year in software has felt like Scavengers Reign. Crash landing onto a beautiful, mysterious, and terrifying planet. Wonders to behold, secrets to discover, but also a persistent dread from the threat of losing internal integrity/sense of self.

say hello to peak 🏔️, the app running gem.coop github.com/gem-coop/peak

This is kind of insane...but today I crossed the 140-hour mark in preparations for my Rails World talk, Practical Hotwire. I was pushing the bar for myself, but it just got out of control. (For comparison, I logged ~300 hours for organizing Blue Ridge Ruby earlier this year.)

Quick heads-up for Ruby consultants, freelancers, and agencies: I just posted our next Ruby Consultants Quarterly Gathering for October 12 (note the slightly earlier time than normal). luma.com/uiyguk8n See you then!

just like that

Running at 80°F is so much easier than running at 93°

Do I know anybody from the Small Bets Community (or another like it) who has a few Ruby-based startups/indie businesses they run? Would appreciate some reposts to find a few people to talk to.

Not sure if I explain right now, but if Turbo was CSS, I think Drive would be a reset.css file, Frames would be Bootstrap, and Streams would be Tailwind.

Nice night

When you and Claude have spent a week and a half together in the same session and now you're trying to figure out how to say goodbye: >So, we finished all the handoff docs, right? Um, can you think of anything else? No? Ok, well…I don't know what else to say…I guess, see you?

I’m exploring the mental health effects of AI coding. This is a super quick (blazing fast), anonymous survey. Please fill out and share so that the responses will be well rounded. forms.gle/dpD8Tk1QnXAz...

🥱 Tired: Keeping a list of all the cute things the baby said. 😎 Wired: Keeping a list of all the cute things the agent said.

I wonder if this new way of building software is how it feels to work every day with a speechwriter. The raw words are not really mine, but there's a continuous negotiation around voice and content. And in the end, it's my delivery and my message to own the consequences for.

Please no one tell Dave Thomas, but I wrote an abstract base class this week. Actually, I forced my agent to write it. 😬

I think a sign of a good framework is enough rigidness to provide familiarity and comprehensibility for everyone using it across projects, but enough flexibility to allow for "house styles" to emerge.

If you want to know what it’s like working with me, just listen to what my pair partner said the other day. ☺️ (Thanks CC! I couldn't have done it without you… Well, used to be able to.)

Last week I migrated a Rails app from structure.sql back to schema.rb, AMA.

I don't mind reading code written by agents, but I hate reading their PR descriptions. If I can't make myself read a PR description from Claude, I won't expect others to. Now when delivering PRs, I may not have written the code by hand, but I'll certainly write the description.

Evil Martians, the DevTools consultancy team I’ve been part of for 15+ years, is hiring a Product Designer. Come work with us on developer tools, open source, and complex products for technical audiences. evilmartians.com/careers/prod...

RubyEvents Guides is now live. Over the last few months, I talked to Rubyists who want to help the community keep going. Some want to restart a local meetup. Some are organizing their first small conference. Some already run events and want to make the next one better.

Hey there, Ruby consultants, freelancers, and agencies! The Ruby Consultants Quarterly Gathering is happening (over Zoom) next Monday, 1pm Eastern. We've had really good discussions this year, hope you can join us! 😊 luma.com/zasdeov3

I really like Zed, but I'm always accidentally closing the Project Panel with cmd+W. Well, not anymore… 😎

writing my second response on AI, this one on ethics. here's my list, what am I missing? come on bsky, you were built for this day 😉 * datacenters that are too loud and use fresh water * data labeling work that is extractive & exploitative, chasing low pay * models trained on data without consent