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Runsheets: Runbooks That Keep a Record of Themselves I should say up front that runbooks are not my usual territory. I’m a Ruby developer who has spent most of his time on libraries, frameworks and AI tooling. The people who live in runbooks are SREs and DevOps engineers, and t...
Read article →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...
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...
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