There’s a revolution brewing in enterprise software development, and it’s happening in the least expected place: line of business (LOB) applications. You know, those unglamorous internal tools that run payroll, track inventory, manage customer rec...
Upgraded to Rails 8 and swapped out Sprockets for the shiny new Propshaft gem? Great choice. Got a lot of assets? You might be in for a nasty surprise. I recently migrated a Rails app with what I thought was a relatively small number of JS and CS...
Claude Code hooks are incredibly powerful but can be frustratingly opaque when you’re trying to actually implement them. Even though I’ve been writing software for 20 years, I found the official documentation to be confusing—it didn’t lay out a fe...
I had a conversation with a friend recently that crystalized something I’ve been thinking about for months. He was frustrated with agentic coding tools - expected them to excel at straightforward tasks like reorganizing files and fixing imports, b...
Ten years ago, I wrote about Dan McKinley’s classic blog post Choose Boring Technology and its resonance with my own development philosophy. My conclusion then was simple: when spinning up a new project, I consider whether I’m using it as an excus...
