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Ten Years of Frontend

#561 May 3, 2026 free

In this episode, we look at where we were years ago and the journey where we have landed today. Over the past 10 years, much has changed with our approach to client interactions and in the episode we explore my favorite and current approach.

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Easter Eggs

#557 Apr 5, 2026 free

Easter Eggs are often ways that developers can have fun by hiding little gems in the code base or provide additional fun without affecting the function of the application. In this episode, we'll explore some of the little easter eggs in the Rails code base.

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N+1 Driven Development

#556 Apr 1, 2026 free

In this episode, we look at how we can modify our application from a performance aspect to increase our job security. We'll slow down our application to a still usable level, but then swoop in months later and become the hero.

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Optimizations

#551 Mar 1, 2026 free

In this episode, we look at a few different ways of improving the speed of a page. There are many paths to take. Some of them leaves a lot of optimizations on the table, whereas others are premature and adds complexity.

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Claude Code

#547 Feb 1, 2026 free

In this episode, we look at how to use Claude Code to assist us in developing Rails applications. This is not about vibe coding, but using tools to assist our development efforts.

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Self Hosted App

#543 Jan 4, 2026 free

In this episode, we'll go from a fresh Rails 8 application and a newly provisioned Raspberry Pi to deploying the application on the PI. We'll also set up a domain to point to this application and put in place geo restrictions to help prevent unwanted access.

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Cool Things in Fizzy

#539 Dec 7, 2025 free

In this episode, we look deploying Fizzy to a server and look at some of the notable practices found in the code.

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Failover Requests

#534 Nov 2, 2025 free

In this episode, we look at creating a failover mechanism for API requests. This can be a handy trick in situations where you want to add fault tolerance to an API request. We'll use the example of the Ollama Cloud as a failover to a locally hosted instance of Ollama.

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Omarchy

#530 Oct 5, 2025 free

Omarchy is an omakase distribution based on Arch Linux and the tiling window manager Hyprland. It ships with just about everything a modern software developer needs to be productive immediately.

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RubyMine

#526 Sep 7, 2025 free

I haven't used RubyMine in several years, but a recent announcement from JetBrains have now opened up access for free with non-commercial products. In this episode, I'm taking a fresh look at RubyMine after years of not using it.

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