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Introducing Asgard: a Thor-based task runner where tasks live in .loki files Asgard 0.4.0 was released on September 26, 2026. It is a Ruby task runner: define tasks as methods in a .loki file, declare what each task depends on, and run them with asgard <task>. The command...
Read article →Pencils Down: My Take on DHH’s Rails World 2026 Keynote This week David Heinemeier Hansson opened Rails World 2026 in Austin, Texas, with a keynote that has h...
Introducing gem-skill: Teaching Your AI About Your Gems There are three layers to what an LLM knows during a coding session. The first is training knowledge —...
The Trouble with Skills As software developers we all have skills of one kind or another that allow us to contribute to the overall workflow of creating somet...
Requirements definition has always been a problem in software development. In the early days we tended to a Dragon. The Machine was a massive, slumbering beas...
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