Stephen Margheim

If you didn't see yesterday, I'm partnering with @aarondfrancis and @steve_tenuto to produce an in-depth video course on building with Rails + SQLite. "High Leverage Rails" is coming in February and I couldn't be more excited!

@strzibnyj Windows 😁

What would you install first on Macbook Pro 14" M4 Max?

@jnunemaker Not to be that guy, but you should definitely check out Literal: literal.fun/docs/

Dry-rb has some crazy syntax but I love how you can enforce types and provide failures for API endpoints. I use it heavy in flipper cloud's telemetry and starting to in other app API endpoints.

@bradgessler Apartment doesn’t integrate deeply enough with Rails. I expect footguns galore. Active storage, ActionText, GlobalID, ActiveJob Serializers, etc. the best thing about Tenanted is the deep integration with every part of Raiks

In a position where I might be able to commit some serious resources to this project and move it forward if it makes sense. The other option being considered is the road-more-traveled use of the apartment gem. Currently leaning in that direction.

Has anybody successfully deployed Tenanted into production for Postgres databases? How did it work for you? What problems did it solve? What problems did it introduce? github.com/basecamp/activ…

@strzibnyj My guess is AppSignal, given European base with recent growth and expansion

I am joining a company which is a contributing member of the Rails Foundation, take a guess 🤔

@hobdaydesign @raffichill It starts to appear right as you hit the bottom of the page scrolling down, so it starts as a visual signal of where you are going and morphs as you continue going down showing you that you will now go back

@raffichill I don’t understand the concept behind it starting as a downwards-facing chevron. Except that it allows for a rotate animation.

Mobile UX innovation of the year so far

@coorasse Joel Drapper and I have been building this for a while, but haven’t gotten it over the top and out the door. Good motivation here tho!

Is there a PaaS out there where I can just use SQLite and be 100% sure that it is backed up properly?

@render Trying to create an account and not receiving the email. Is it because my email domain is .xyz? Email account definitely works, and I need the verification email to finish setup and deploy my apps.

I get to meet the one, the only, the Takesman @IanLandsman tonight in Amsterdam. Pretty excited, won’t lie

@AlmondVoice Hell yeah!

Introducing ~vibe mode~: Speak your prompts and auto-send them without needed to manually press enter. It's amazing if you have multiple Claude / Codex sessions open at the same time. Enjoy :)

@almonk @deepfates Lovely. Purchased!

@deepfates Working on it replay.software/echo

has anybody produced a good terminal interface for the phone? obviously there's termux but it's basically the worst app you will ever use and its power is the only thing keeping it afloat. replit did a good stab at this with the d-pad nub and so on but afaik not open source?

@AlmondVoice Do you mean #1? Here's a screenshot. On a related note, the key mentioned when I hover over it is incorrect.

@fractaledmind Hey Stephen thanks for the love! We're rolling out #2 and #3 in an hour Could you send a screenshot about #2? Sounds like a bug

@AlmondVoice Loving the app thus far! A few feature requests: 1. a way to hide the "Keep holding, speak, then release" text 2. a setting to auto-submit the text in certain apps/contexts, like Claude Code 3. ability to hide the app from the dock, maybe move it to menubar

@helenhousandi We won't go back as things used to be, but we will re-embrace richer classes that interoperate with utilities naturally and smoothly. I call such classes "affordance classes" and I see similar sentiment shifts in this direction as well. fractaledmind.com/2025/12/01/ui-…

How much longer until we fully abandon CSS utility classes and go back to semantic classes, I see we're already halfway around the bend so at this point I'm just waiting to live to see if I was right all along

☝️This! I've written recently about the need to add the concept of "Affordance" CSS classes to our vocabulary for the core frontend architectural layers: fractaledmind.com/2025/12/01/ui-… TL;DR - a .button is not a is not a , but we need all three (affordances, elements, and components).

This component could have been a class "when you have a component that is simply just a link styled as a button, you have lost the dang plot" - @stolinski

I like how TracePoint is used in chaotic_job (a gem for testing background jobs) by @fractaledmind #L39" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/fractaledmind/…

@LeaVerou Border inside with outline outside

And no, we can't have a different order for borders and outlines, or for box-sizing: content-box vs box-sizing: border-box.

The @csswg needs your input! We just agreed to expand borders and outlines to multiple colors (and styles, and widths)! 🎉 But we can’t decide on the order: inside out or outside in? What feels more natural to you, A or B? Poll in next tweet

I've been thinking along similar lines. What does code optimized for LLMs instead of humans look like? What does code optimized for LLMs steered by humans look like? How do you steer LLMs to write code that gels into a stable and predictable system without falling back into old habits and perspectives of what "good code" looks like? So much to learn.

I’m slowly coming to the realisation that most of the benefit of “good code” was that it was easily maintainable. So I (or anyone) could get up to speed fast when coming back to it later. Sometimes, I admit, “good code” simply meant overthinking stuff to keep myself entertained. But now, when coming back to that same code, I don’t need to spend much time reading my way back into it because the agents can tell me the story in a matter of seconds. And so, maybe, it never needed to be “good code”? Like, who’s the “good code” even for if it’s not for reading in full? Existential crisis aside, I think the value of “good code” diminishes enormously when humans don’t need to read it all to understand the system anymore. Maintainable "good code" goes from what's easily read in the details to what's verifiably testable on the system scale.

I like this framing, and it resonates that thinking along these lines will grow more essential as AI gains competence and familiarity across a wider range of domains. In an attempt to answer the question for myself as I think about it: My superpower is identifying and applying leverage to problems. When I saw what all was possible with simple SQLite, I pushed hard to smooth that path for others to see it and leverage it more easily. I'm doing the same now for plain HTML and CSS. Acidic Job and Chaotic Job take a single insight and one point of leverage to make durable execution straightforward for Rails background jobs. I think that identifying and applying the right leverage to the best next problem will remain a uniquely human skill for a long while still, but I guess we shall see.

@willking Followed!

Most underrated follow right now hands down. Whether you're into design or engineering.

"execution is not the same as orchestration" A great point when thinking about or building durable execution patterns in your apps.