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Three rules turn duplication into abstractions through tiny steps, and catch false abstractions before they ever reach the code.
The biggest refactor failures come from big steps. A 200-line function turns into a rewrite. The rewrite ships with a regression. The fix is to make the smallest safe change. Lock...
Over the years, we have written about many of the tools we use: Skunk for combining code quality and code coverage data, bundler-audit for security vulnerabilities in your dependen...
Giles Edwards-Alexander does an experiment to see if decomposing a large function helps reduce token costs, suggesting that is may now be possible to measure the econom...
Vibe coded a useful thing for Rubyists over the weekend. Audition is a linter/fixer that gets your code Ractor-ready: static analysis powered by Shopify’s rubydex, plus dynamic pro...
You spend most of your time fixing bugs, not writing new features. The real challenge is keeping code clean. If you treat maintenance as a chore, you’ll never ship fast. What yo...
Originally appeared on The Rails Tech Debt Blog.Replacing a business-critical legacy system does not have to mean committing to a risky, all-at-once rewrite. The strangler fig patt...
Originally appeared on avdi.codes. Creation is now near-free. Verification/understanding is not, yet. It’s time to engineer away the slop. Geoffrey Huntley: Engineer Away the Slo...
Originally appeared on The Rails Tech Debt Blog.Today I’m excited to share a new open source project: A Claude Code skill to assess technical debt in a Ruby on Rails application. I...
wurk is a drop-in, 100% API-compatible replacement for Sidekiq that ships the Pro and Enterprise features Batches, unique jobs, rate limiting, periodic jobs, encrypted arguments un...
Large rewrites promise consistency. Smaller migrations make it easier to see whether the new boundary is actually helping.Continue reading on Medium »
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My newest agent took an hour to build, and half of that was picking her name. I took Mia, an agent that has spent months quietly earning trust in production, and copied her whole....
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Originally appeared on The Rails Tech Debt Blog.Most Rails developers have crossed paths with Rake (usually to run a migration, seed a database, or clear out test data). If you’re...
Originally appeared on The Rails Tech Debt Blog.You get a site audit report and it looks manageable. A few dozen findings, most of them small: a page with barely any text on it, a...
LocalGov Drupal is a Drupal distribution that combines Drupal, some configuration, and a collection of modules with the aim of making it easier for councils to create websites. The...
Originally appeared on Ruby Weekly. #812 — August 6, 2026 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Shrinking Ruby Hashes — Hash us...
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Originally appeared on Rails Designer Blog.A while back I wrote about organizing configuration in Rails. The idea was simple: drop YAML files into config/configurations/ and get na...
Picture this: you are a software developer building an education platform, and you receive from the product owner some requirements written in business language (Gherkin). You need...
рџ“ќ Originally published (in Japanese) at forge.workstyle.tech. You've got a code that looks correct when read, but when you open it in the browser, it's slightly different from...
When your prototype becomes the product your business depends on, you can't just start over. Here's how the Strangler Fig pattern let us rebuild safely.
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