Mal

Once more details come out, we all need to ask serious questions about continuing to do business with OpenAI.

@Shpigford @initialcommitco You might be right…good call

for the time being i'm gonna put a pause on my @initialcommitco experiment. built three full, well-tested, feature-rich apps over the past 6 weeks and barely made $10k. i generally think there is a market for these sort of "business in a box" things, but i think the timing is tough due to the MASSIVE hype around being able to build anything with AI. i think the hype is justified, but i also think the pendulum will swing back a bit as people realize how there's more to building well-designed, stable software than just a few prompts. still throwing around the idea of turning this into a dutch auction marketplace that others can list on as well as potentially using it in the future for my own stuff. just not committing to creating apps for the sole purpose of selling them every few weeks.

🔌 ActiveRecord now checks connections in and out per query instead of per request. This article breaks down the overhead, the benchmarks, and the practical workaround. #Rails codewithrails.com/blog/rails-72-…

Vercel just dropped 10+ years worth of Claude Code Skills with all their frontend learnings & optimizations 🤯 Ralph is going to love looping this

AI app development didn’t need to get this complicated. We’ve been sold two lies: • You need complex agent frameworks • You must use official provider SDKs LLMs are just APIs for us. Abstract them well and Ruby-level productivity returns. Keynote 👇 youtu.be/y535u1EWqAg?si…

@paolino Yesssss

Copying from Chat is just fine. However you manage to increase your productivity is fine

Everybody using Claude Code and I’m still over here chatting with ChatGPT like a grandpa 😂

@mhenrixon Ohhhh this sounds interesting! 🧐

Hiring: Senior Rails Developer Building fintech for African businesses. Modern stack: → Rails 8.1 + Ruby 4 → Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus) → Phlex components (no ERB) → PostgreSQL + SolidQueue Not a CRUD app. Real banking: accounts, cards, payments, analytics. Already live in 1 market. About to go live in another. Want to ship code that moves money? Let's talk.

@Shpigford This is a great idea

i'm productizing my ability to ship new products faster than anyone you know. initialcommit.co will be doing monthly "business-in-a-box" drops as well as offering an MVP service where i'll build your idea in 1 week.

This might be obvious but in a vibe coding world, where the amount of websites/apps is going to 100x, the value of a high quality dot com or dot ai goes way up

Rob Reiner (1947–2025)

I feel like I’m the only one that prefers to use Chat instead of directly inside my IDE when in coding

Ruby’s biggest flaw is that it insists humans matter. Some people hate that. robbyonrails.com/articles/2025/…

Can’t stand pair programming, usually. But coding with Chat? A pleasure

@typeangled This is awesome! I’ve always been curious about recruitment. How’d you get started with that?

Two years ago, I left my full-time job and started taking on contract development work, eventually incorporating my software consultancy. What began with Rails app development has now grown to include website building and software recruiting services. This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful to all the clients who have trusted me over the past two years and given me the opportunity to work on their projects. Your trust in me meant a lot on day one, and it still means just as much today. Thank you!

@yarotheslav @flydotio @TigrisData Hurrah!!

Deployed my first app via @flydotio ! The estimated cost of web service + postgres + object storage (AWS S3 via @TigrisData ) is ~$6/mo. Great CLI experience: "fly deploy" feels as good as "git push heroku master"

Ruby on Rails: Compress the complexity of modern web apps ➜ Active Support Instrumentation Documentation, QueryIntent#execute! and more! rubyonrails.org/2025/11/28/thi…

Letting Puma auto-set your worker count is the easiest way to go for 90% of usecases. Currently, you can only do that with WEB_CONCURRENCY=auto, but we'll also make this possible in the next puma version by using `workers :auto` in your puma.rb.

@iyoushetwt Notepad++!

What was the first code editor you ever used? Mine was Sublime Text