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• Agentic coding's hidden productivity boost 2026-06-02
• Simple systems are the best systems 2026-05-29
• Planting trees and dreaming of software 2026-05-05
• So long, and thanks for all the logs 2026-03-03
• Agentic anxiety 2026-02-16
• 7 phrases that need to die before I do 2026-02-06
• The shovelware cometh 2026-02-02
• Thinking about custom software in a new way 2026-01-28
• Hugo bloggin' with Obsidian like a boss 2026-01-23
• Wow, curl is even used heavily in the NFL playoffs 2026-01-21
• Buckets for Bucks 2026-01-19
• I joined the POSSE Party 2026-01-19
• The Temporal API finally lands in Chrome 144 2026-01-14
• Jerod's Chip Dip Depletion Principle 2026-01-05
• Changelog community book recommendations 2025-12-31
• Is this thing still on? 2025-12-22
• Nuclear Privilege 2025-12-20
• Full Stack Radio 2019-06-10
• Listen to me on SendGrid's podcast 2019-02-13
• Our 2018 State of the "log" address 2018-12-19
• My Favorite Changelog Episodes of 2016 2016-12-31
• 5 Answers For Coder Catchup Episode 100 2016-12-22
• Safari does not trigger click events on anchors or buttons containing SVG elements 2015-08-18
• New Mac: Eventual Installs 2015-04-11
• New Mac: Instant Installs 2015-03-21
• What Continuity Means to Me 2015-03-13
• Trailing Conditionals Considered Harmful Unless Used Sparingly 2015-03-08
• I Fought the RSI and the RSI (Almost) Won 2015-02-26
• Thoughtfulness is a Secret Weapon 2015-02-21
• Big Week 2015-02-13
• Bubble Boy 2015-02-05
• Find Your Fiji 2015-01-26
• Art-directed, data-driven image files to accompany your website 2015-01-19
• How we use Trello to generate The Changelog Weekly 2015-01-14
• Two Guys B.S.in' 2015-01-05
• GIF of the Year 2014-12-30
• Beloved Bits, 2014 2014-12-21
• List all Git commits that are on one branch, but aren't on the other 2014-09-06
• Naming Things is Hard. Let's Go Shopping! 2014-08-11
• A step by step guide to bulletproof 404s on Rails 2014-06-20
• Ruby Rebus! Part Deux 2014-04-07
• Out with Sprout 2014-02-11
• Beloved Bits, 2013 2013-12-31
• Rails 4: let specific actions be embedded as iframes 2013-12-04
• Make ActiveAdmin and FriendlyId play nice 2013-11-15
• Your dev user should be really crazy 2013-11-08
• Ruby Quick Tip: Easily Count Occurrences of Array Elements 2013-10-24
• My biggest disappointment with Apple's 2013 iPhone upgrades 2013-09-20
• You don't have to annotate your AngularJS injections anymore 2013-08-02
• CoffeeScript Classes Play Nicely with AngularJS Factories 2013-07-28
• So I gave a talk for NebraskaJS about AngularJS 2013-07-13
• Jekyll with Footnotes 2013-05-06
• Tips for a successful switch to a standing desk 2013-05-02
• Changeloggin' 2013-04-22
• Be Careful When You Create a Unified SSL Certificate for Nginx 2013-04-08
• Name That Trend - Nose Dive Edition 2013-03-07
• Easy 'Share-Nothing' WordPress Blog Syndication on Rails 2013-03-01
• The Curious Case of ActiveRecord Matching Yesterday's Events Even Though I 2013-02-19
• CLOC Counts Lines of Code 2013-02-12
• A Casual Stroll Through Discourse's Source Code 2013-02-11
• Rate Limit POST Requests with Rack::Throttle 2013-02-03
• Fix Rails-API Oauth2 CSRF Errors On Rails 3.2.9+ 2013-02-01
• Configuring redis-store / redis-rails on Heroku 2013-01-23
• Dynamic Routes to Static Pages on Rails 2013-01-07
• Top Hacker News Content of 2012 2012-12-31
• Beloved Bits, 2012 2012-12-27
• A Handy Method to Share Data From Rails Controllers to Views Without Requiring 2012-12-18
• Capybara and Poltergeist: Snap! 2012-12-11
• The One Thing You Should Not Bring to Your Next Conference 2012-12-04
• Creating an SSH Tunnel to a Remote Service 2012-11-28
• A Domainr CLI in Less Than 15 Lines of Ruby 2012-11-27
• Thankful 2012-11-23
• An Algorithm to Reliably Identify Nested Substrings 2012-11-12
• Ruby Rebus Answers 2012-11-09
• Ruby Rebus 2012-10-31
• How Atebits' Letterpress Could Really Shine (and Make a Lot of Money) 2012-10-28
• A Common Gotcha When Using Ruby Regexps For Input Validation 2012-10-19
• Skype Tip: Roll Your Own Mentions System 2012-10-09
• And Now For Something So Niche That Perhaps Only I Will Use It 2012-09-20
• Announcing Object Lateral 2012-09-04
• Adding Your Own Bookmarks and Bookmarklets to the iOS Simulator's Mobile Safari 2012-08-29
• 7 Ways to Level Up Your Sublime Text Editing 2012-08-17
• How to get quick access to technical symbols and other special characters in 2012-08-08
• Get Sinatra Up and Running with Zurb's Foundation 3 Framework 2012-08-07
• Some White Spaces are More Equal Than Others 2012-07-23
• You Might be a Unix Geek 2012-07-14
• My Favorite Bundler Feature 2012-07-03
• Wrangle Your iOS Apps 2012-06-28
• 3 Tools I Install on Every Server 2012-06-14
• A Brief Message to Web Designers 2012-06-07
• the birth, life, and death of sant0sk1 2012-06-05
• Back That Gmail Up 2012-05-26
• Enumerable's *ect Methods Reimplemented Using `each_with_object` 2012-05-20
• Tee for Two 2012-05-16
• Confessions of a Meteor Newb 2012-04-23
• Dead Simple Rails Config 2012-04-04
• Get FireHOL off of RSyslog's lawn 2012-03-27
• Naming Schemes 2012-03-22
• Best Buy Considered Harmful 2012-03-05
• ip2loc lives 2012-02-25
• A Simple Pattern to Namespace and Selectively Execute Certain Bits of JavaScript 2012-02-08
• Sublime Text 2 Icon Replacement Roundup 2012-01-12
• Beloved Bits, 2011 2011-12-31
• A Photo Stream Problem, Workaround, & Bonus 2011-12-11
• A Kindle Cloud Reader Bookmarklet to Enable Text Selection, Copy/Paste, Et 2011-08-10
• Brew Install Vim 2011-08-04
• A Better Way to Get Recency-based Google Searches in Chrome 2011-08-02
• My Dotjs Hack to Default Google Searches to Past Year 2011-07-26
• The Coldplay Effect 2011-07-25
• Building Multi-tenant Rails Apps with PostgreSQL Schemas 2011-07-18
• cap db:pull 2011-06-29
• Connecting Node.js to Redis To Go on Heroku 2011-06-17
• Reasons Your Dev Team Might Choose Talker Over Campfire for Group Chat 2011-06-14
• Benchmarketing 2011-04-16
• Pow and Apache Side-by-Side 2011-04-12
• ActiveRecord Association Caching Gotcha 2011-04-07
• Install Firefox 4 and Firefox 3 Side by Side on Mac OS X 2011-03-23
• The Two Character Config Hack That Changed my Bashing Life 2011-03-20
• The Perfect Setup: Rails on Screen 2011-02-25
• jQuery: isInArray Boolean Sugar 2011-01-31
• Tech Podcasts You Should Know About 2011-01-30
• Quickly Determine Your Current Heroku Database Size 2011-01-26
• Three Ways to Retain Your Dev Flow 2011-01-14
• Bridging the Gap Between JavaScript's console.log and Cocoa's NSLog 2010-12-27
• The Tech Behind the New Grooveshark 2010-12-15
• Making Rails 3's Mail Gem and Paperclip Play Nice 2010-12-09
• Minimally Awesome Todos 2010-12-01
• Took a Detour 2010-11-01
• LazerCatz! 2010-08-30
• Extract & Edit a Safari Extension 2010-08-21
• Some Great iOS Apps 2010-06-19
• Rack, and Firebug, and Fuel. Oh Hai! 2010-03-20
• Exciting Projects I Watched in February 2010-03-06
• Exciting Projects I Watched In January 2010-02-02
• Cappuccino On Rails 2010-01-12
• Testing Cappuccino Notifications 2010-01-07
• Rubular 2009-12-02
• 280 Atlas Introductory Screencast 2009-11-16
• Ad Hoc Command-Line Notifications with Twitter 2009-11-14
• Managing Broken Symlinks 2009-11-05
• Learning Cappuccino: A Linked List 2009-11-01
• A WordPress Skeleton Key 2009-10-29
• Cheating on Rails 2009-10-20
• CappuccinoFlow 2009-10-14
• Run OS X System Profiler From Terminal 2009-09-09
• cd up, up, and a-up 2009-09-07
• Kill Snow Leopard's Blue Ring of Exposé 2009-09-01
• Just Abort It 2009-08-24
• AppStore Ruby Module 2009-08-22
• Self-Scheduling Ruby Scripts 2009-08-20
• Amending Git Commits 2009-08-16
• Mini Book Review: Ruby Best Practices 2009-08-01
• WordPress Console Update 2009-07-23
• Ad Hoc Rails Console Logging 2009-07-18
• Sass Never Forgets 2009-07-09
• On WordPress Plugin Release Notes 2009-07-03
• jQuery Tools 101: Nested Tabs 2009-07-01
• Introducing the WordPress Console 2009-06-23
• Sniff Your iPhone's Network Traffic 2009-06-13
• PHP5 with readline support on OS X 2009-06-06
• Let Capistrano Compile Ruby 1.9 For You 2009-06-02
• Dead Simple Rails Deployment 2009-05-31
• Rename A Gitosis Repository 2009-05-28
• 3 Reasons Why Heroku is a Game Changer 2009-05-26
• Create Arbitrarily Sized Files In Less Than 15 Lines of Ruby 2009-05-22
• jQuery: Open External Links In New Window/Tab 2009-05-18
• Expand Your Twitter Network In Less Than 15 Lines of Ruby 2009-05-17
• Avoid Sore Fingers While SSHing Around 2009-05-14
• See Which Twitterers Don't Follow You Back In Less Than 15 Lines of Ruby 2009-05-12
• jQuery: Set Mouse Focus On Page Load 2009-05-09
• Git Informed When Your Site Is Hacked 2009-05-04
• Dreamy: Now With 100% API Coverage 2009-05-02
• Clean WP Dashboard 2009-04-23
• Tweetie Has Arrived 2009-04-21
• New Gem: Rack-noIE6 2009-04-18
• So Dreamy! 2009-04-18
• 2>&1 2009-03-17
• Rsnapshot (Rsync) Gotcha 2009-03-09
• Bash array and loops in FireHOL configuration 2009-02-26
• Extending TMail::Mail for HTML and plaintext only 2009-02-21
• A simple Ruby method to send email 2009-02-17
• Getting ready for Lenny 2009-02-16
• Great Article on Aptitude vs Apt-Get 2009-02-16
• Debian 5.0 (Lenny) Released 2009-02-15
• fix your Debian VMware image's network after offline copy 2008-09-17
• Starting Asterisk on Boot in Debian 2008-09-03
• Adhearsion TextMate Bundle 2008-08-30
• Configure Network Time Protocol (NTP) in Debian 2008-08-27
• Date Range Goodies in Rails 2008-08-27
• Introducing lil tom peep 2008-08-23
• Debian Etch: Default Repositories 2008-08-22
• Easy Configuration with Ruby and Yaml 2008-08-19
• Ruby to the Rescue 2008-08-18
• Great jQuery Reference 2008-08-14
• Debian Quickie: MailUtils 2008-08-12
• jQuery Wizard Redux 2008-08-09
• Pass Optional Arguments to Ruby Method 2008-07-24
• Rails + Screen = Awesome 2008-07-24
• Symlink Your Samba Shares 2008-07-23
• ip2loc 2008-07-19
• My Perfect OS X FTP Server 2008-07-17
• Traversing Directories with Ruby 2008-07-15
• New GitHub Repo: AWS Ruby Miscellany 2008-07-14
• Capify - public key deployment 2008-07-11
• Rails: Nested Layouts 2008-06-20
• SliceHost + Debian + FireHOL gotchas 2008-06-20
• htop: like top, but awesome 2008-06-03
• 10.5.3 Fixes Spaces 2008-05-31
• Debian: Disable Sytem Beep 2008-05-19
• git clone & pull without changing directories 2008-05-19
• MySQL backup and restore 2008-05-19