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Every post, newest first. The formatting on the older ones may be a little skewiff. If you spot something, patches are very welcome.

2026

30 Oct Hands on the wheel
27 Aug Ryan Bigg is looking for work
18 Jun Comsol Customer Service
16 Jun Verify faster
30 Apr NPM: putting the brown in brownout
15 Mar From Heroku to Render
6 Feb Hearts & Clubs
19 Jan Beware grpc gem and Ruby 4.0

2025

30 Nov Triaging bugs
29 Oct Ruby Community Reflections
13 Oct Hanami for Rails Developers: Part 4: Associations
6 Oct Hanami for Rails Developers: Part 3: Forms
5 Oct Hanami for Rails Developers: Part 2: Controllers
5 Oct Hanami for Rails Developers: Part 1: Models
3 May Show, Don't Tell
3 Apr Cursor-based querying with Rails
18 Mar Note taking
3 Mar Decorating arrays with SimpleDelegator
10 Feb Ghosts 'n' Stuff
2 Feb Rails tagged logging

2024

9 Dec Scoping an Active Record join
5 Dec Using Elastic Search's Profile API
26 Nov React is fine
22 Oct Ruby Retreat 2024
18 Sep Use classes to represent data
9 Jul Debugging Checklist
5 Jul Separation of data and view layers in React components
28 Jun Decreasing Ruby app build times
22 May Scheduling with Ice Cube
20 May Thought Experiment: Without React or GraphQL
14 May What was that branch?
4 May code is like garden
29 Apr One year with the Ergodox EZ
26 Mar Tailwind has won
26 Jan View Components, Table Edition

2023

20 Dec Audit Logging Notes
3 Dec NaNoWriMo Retro
9 Nov Ruby 3, Hashes and Keyword Arguments
27 Aug Saving time with fzf
22 Aug Ubuntu, Ruby, Selenium Manager, Chrome and ChromeDriver
22 Aug Alpine Linux, Selenium Manager, Chrome and ChromeDriver
7 Aug Zoom's return to the office
28 Jul How to fix: Chromedriver 115, cannot find chrome binary
1 Jun Rails 7, React, TypeScript, ESBuild and View Components
24 Apr Rails 7, Bootstrap CSS + JavaScript with ESBuild
9 Mar Open Letter to the Rails Foundation
2 Mar Please explain, Elastic Search
7 Feb Why game programming and why Magic?
28 Jan Are the switches on a Kinesis Gaming Freestyle Edge RGB Keyboard hot-swappable?
24 Jan Ruby GraphQL field notes
20 Jan The method method

2022

2 Dec CSS :has selector for selects that have options
28 Nov Hanami 2.0 Thoughts
24 Nov The Gem Foundation
9 Nov A replacement for strong parameters
6 May Using Union Types with GraphQL Mutations in Ruby
8 Mar Typed View Components with dry-types

2021

9 Dec Culture and Values
11 Aug A tour of Twist
27 Jul On coding tests
21 Jul Using Ruby 2.7's new triple-dot syntax to clean up service objects
19 Jul Job Hunt Q2 2021
29 Apr How I found a new contract gig
7 Apr View Components: The Missing Link
29 Mar The Bikeshed
23 Mar Maintainable Rails
4 Mar Contracting as a developer in Australia
13 Jan Twist V2 - Live Coding

2020

23 Sep React Select + Capybara + Selenium
29 Aug Selenium, Capybara, ChromeDriver: connection refused error debugging
23 Apr How to tidy up Git Pull Requests
6 Apr The Stand Down
20 Feb ROM and Dry Showcase: Part 4
3 Feb ROM + Dry Showcase: Part 3 - Testing
2 Feb ROM + Dry Showcase: Part 2 - Validations & Operations
1 Feb ROM + Dry Showcase: Part 1 - Application + Database setup
19 Jan Getting Started with Rails: Extended Edition

2019

28 Nov They fixed the keyboard
18 Nov Rough Edges
19 Sep RubyConf Indonesia Keynote - Transcript
29 Aug The 2018 MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
16 Jul Culture Amp Junior Engineering Program Discontinued
5 Mar Ruby Trickery
4 Mar JEP #2: The first 8 weeks

2018

13 Dec Polymorphic Routes
16 Oct Working Towards Integration Testing Duolithic Applications
29 Aug Junior Engineering Program: Resources
28 Aug Junior Engineering Program: Onboarding
27 Aug Junior Engineering Program: Launch
27 Aug Culture Amp Junior Engineering Program: Retrospective
22 Aug Joy of Elixir - Progress Update
2 Aug Web Directions Code Leaders: Hiring Juniors
15 Jun Making Tests Go Faster
15 Mar On Writing Software Well #2: Using callbacks to manage auxiliary complexity: A review
7 Mar My thoughts on Hanami
7 Mar Hiring Juniors (RubyConf AU Talk)

2017

3 Nov How require loads a gem
28 Aug Rails, Dropzone.js, Amazon S3 and imgix
27 Jul Joy of Elixir
22 Jun Rails' CurrentAttributes considered harmful
30 Mar Rails 5 in Action
20 Feb Toy Robot, Deep Dive Rails and AsciiDoc Toolchain

2016

24 Nov Validating nested JSON data with ex_json_schema
28 May Elixir Tip: Enum.any? + match?
22 May Multitenancy with Rails 2nd Edition
9 Mar Working with date ranges in Active Record
22 Feb Truncating indexes in Elasticsearch 2

2015

24 Dec Programming Phoenix Review
16 Nov Open source work
10 Nov Active Record, change_column and scales
6 Aug My self-publishing success story
8 Jul Deploying a Rails application on Ubuntu: Passenger Edition
9 Jun Mac OS X, Ruby, ruby-install, chruby and You
30 Apr Getting started with Ruby and Rails

2014

3 Dec Filtering by index in Elasticsearch
5 Oct Ubuntu, Ruby, ruby-install, chruby, Rails and You
2 Oct Working Remotely
2 Sep Go package management
8 Aug Thoughts on Go
6 Aug Add header to Rack::Test request
22 Jul Ryan Bigg is now a Git...
19 Jun Initial thoughts on Lotus
17 Jun Spree, Factories and Callbacks
2 Apr Community Management

2013

2012

12 Nov No more writing for Manning
1 Nov I didn't submit a talk to RubyConf Australia
3 Oct JavaScript Arrays and Objects
25 May On Hiring
25 May How not to hire me
19 May Engines talk
27 Apr Caffeine and Sleep
26 Apr Integration testing engines
27 Mar Polymorphic Routes
17 Mar Please learn Rails
14 Mar Frontier, we need to talk
3 Mar Engines and Authentication
31 Jan Free Help
9 Jan Moving Out: Down to Melbourne

2011

27 Dec Matt Lightner
5 Dec Deciding what tests to write
29 Nov Don't print hard-copies
23 Nov Screencast: wrong argument type
14 Nov The Rails API
3 Nov Going on a Spree
31 Oct Screencast: Pilot
19 Oct That One Test
2 Oct Leaving Chicago
7 Sep Learning and Asking
4 Sep With Rails 3.1, comes great things
19 Jun Sprocket asset tags internals
18 Jun The Asset Pipeline
6 Jun Mac OS X, Ruby, RVM, Rails and You
1 Jun A potential use for asset pipelining
23 May The Richest
11 Apr Whodunit: Devise, OmniAuth, OAuth or GitHub?
1 Apr Rails 3.1 in Action
22 Mar Railscamp NZ
6 Mar Code doesn't protect against stupid
3 Mar When to Cuke
1 Feb RTFM
27 Jan Rails 3 in Action: 50% off
20 Jan Why Pivotal now charging for Tracker is a good thing
6 Jan Rails 3 in Action: SaaS
4 Jan Why you should run bundle update
2 Jan Extending Active Record

2010

27 Dec Converting from WordPress to Jekyll
25 Dec Ubuntu, Ruby, RVM, Rails, and You
19 Dec Rails routing and automatic assumptions
16 Dec Asking Questions The Right Way
11 Dec The Writing Process
9 Dec Commit it, or else!
28 Nov Paths vs Subdomains
25 Nov Dollars to Documentation
19 Nov Looking for Sponsors
7 Nov The Rails 3 Upgrade
30 Oct Gone from GetUp
19 Oct Writing isn't all rainbows
11 Oct Lighthouse has problems, but they're fixing them
6 Oct Lighthouse has problems
1 Oct Gem Development Guide
30 Sep Advanced Rails Documentation
24 Sep You suck.
23 Sep Need Newbies
17 Sep The Fake Update
17 Sep pre-GoGaRuCo Summary
30 Aug Three Dot Oh
17 Aug IRL Help
9 Aug Moving Out: For Reals
1 Aug Moving out
27 Jul Helpdesk
24 Jul I'm Wanted
16 Jul GoGaRuCo
11 Jul Rails 3 in Action: MEAP #1
5 Jul uninitialized constant RSpec with Cucumber
18 Jun Let's Log Everything!
9 Jun The book is...
7 Jun Bridging the Gap
4 Jun Using Cucumber tables to specify associations
29 May Rails 3 Book Week 6/7
25 May The Rails 2.3.x Release Process
22 May The Present
21 May Recruiters: Know Thy Recruitees
19 May Do It Again
15 May Railsbridge Bugmash
10 May Rails 3 Book: Staying Focussed
7 May Listen to us
6 May Classes are cached in the test environment
5 May Rails 3 Book: Week 3
30 Apr Rails 3 Book: The Movie
28 Apr by_star
21 Apr rubyonrails.org is down
20 Apr Rails 3 Book
19 Apr I want you to give
14 Apr has_and_belongs_to_many double insert
5 Apr When Rails 3 is Due
1 Apr Not staying in Scotland
31 Mar Staying in Scotland
7 Mar Starsigns & Dreams
2 Mar Testing Facebook
13 Feb Congratulations
8 Feb The Initialization Guide
1 Feb Computer Woes
21 Jan Why Mocra Is Awesome

2009

5 Dec Ruby 1.9.1 & Friends: 11 Months On
23 Nov A Day Without Talking
8 Nov Scoping by locales
4 Nov Where did I put that puts?
30 Oct Size != Count
17 Oct Connecting to Multiple Databases Using ActiveRecord
9 Oct Fixed By Rails 3
6 Oct Banning Users Using Middleware
1 Oct Construct
3 Sep Driver: Now In All New "Linux" Flavour
30 Aug Driver
28 Aug Snow Leopard Ruby/Rails Developer Setup
26 Aug Octopi
7 Aug distance_of_time_in_words
27 Jul Locked Out
17 Jul Adding Your Own Differ to RSpec
14 Jul Thank You!
12 Jul sort_by
11 Jul Adium: Messages from Contacts not in Contact List
9 Jul Weird Phonecall
8 Jul Installing RDoc on Ubuntu Jaunty
8 Jul Department of Transport
4 Jul humanize
3 Jul no such file to load -- hmac-sha1
30 Jun Two Amazing Things: Thing #2
30 Jun Two Amazing Things: Thing #1
18 Jun Allianz
16 Jun Fixed by TextMate 2
13 Jun Money
12 Jun How to make your Rails application 1,235 times faster*
11 Jun SQL Display
9 Jun Cucumber Failing Scenarios
8 Jun Sleep In
8 Jun Checking for disabled Javascript with Rails
6 Jun Orchestrate
4 Jun Project R
29 May Railscamp #5
21 May Railscamp #5 Writeup Delay
29 Apr Chill.
25 Apr How Rails Works #2: Mime Types & respond_to
23 Apr When you didn't think it possible...
18 Apr Pretty-ifying URLs
6 Apr Making an appearance
2 Apr Testing Gems with multiruby
14 Mar Logga is now Helpa
6 Mar A Call to Action
25 Feb GrowlMail crashes Mail
22 Feb url
19 Feb RFC: rBoard
31 Jan Ruby 1.9.1 & Friends
30 Jan Webrat Woes
24 Jan Lazy Man's ri
20 Jan How Dare I!

2008

31 Dec How Rails Works #1: A Timezone Overview
30 Dec Windows 8 Icon Size
30 Dec Interesting Comparisons
20 Dec Showing SQL Statements in script/console
14 Dec Moving on up
14 Dec Finding SQL Type of Column
2 Dec Gentlemen, (re)Start Your Engines!
1 Dec Adelaide gets Google Transit
29 Nov Cache Template Extensions Error
24 Nov Catch-All SEO-Friendly URLs
24 Nov 21st Birthday
23 Nov Adelaide - 2 Degrees of Separation
17 Nov Railscamp #4
13 Nov Railscamp
5 Nov Lost in Translation
5 Nov Dear India
29 Oct I18n: An Overview
24 Oct This is genius!
22 Oct Ruby Quiz - Matricies
20 Oct Did you (Rails) Rumble?
16 Oct Throat Cramps
9 Oct Two Guys Break Into A Car...
7 Oct Orderly Code is Readable Code
30 Sep The Super-Consumer
29 Sep A List of Police-related Shows on Australian Free-to-air TV
28 Sep Single Table Inheritance
25 Sep How To Ask For Help
23 Sep And Now For Something Completely Useless
17 Sep Parking
16 Sep Twonklist
15 Sep The Accident: Followup #1
10 Sep Ham & Rocket Rolls
3 Sep Ubuntu, Rails, Apache, Passenger, Capistrano & You
1 Sep Spore
29 Aug A Sense of Belonging
28 Aug Fired: Day 1
13 Aug Moving Topics
10 Aug InLAN
31 Jul Job Offer Dissection
29 Jul Stop Being So Self-Centered!
28 Jul Rescue Correctly!
25 Jul What A Weekend!
14 Jul Faking It
6 Jul Empty Wallet Treatment
28 Jun RailsCamp '08 (#1?)
24 Jun I am so freaking awesome
20 Jun Going Dark
13 Jun A bit of refactoring love
10 Jun Change of Plans #2
7 Jun SVN: Why I moved away, and why you should too
6 Jun Train Timetables
6 Jun Change of Plans
5 Jun Which Came First?
29 May Availability is unavailable
25 May Mac: The First Two Hours
20 May URLs
20 May Updating a select box based on another
19 May RadarLAN
14 May ActiveResource & ZenDesk
8 May The Many Faces of...
6 May Job
1 May Sheer Coincidence
29 Apr Self-Referential Relationships
28 Apr Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview Overview
22 Apr And We're Back... For Another Year
10 Apr Approval Sucks!
10 Apr A HTTP Story
7 Apr Epic fail from Epic
4 Apr Local Gem Repository
3 Apr unintialized constant Gem::GemRunner
3 Apr Rails 2.1: Migration Timestamping
1 Apr Fool!
30 Mar Job Dissection: World Famous Cutting Edge Company
28 Mar Crash Repairers
25 Mar Telemarketers: The Government Entity
23 Mar Christianity vs Lanism
18 Mar It's Been One Week
16 Mar Administration Namespacing
14 Mar Telemarketers: First Contact
12 Mar Now With 100% More Evil
11 Mar Out And About
7 Mar I'm Not Looking!
25 Feb Pain!
23 Feb Just Fucking Google It
22 Feb A Complete Lack Of Communication
19 Feb Rails Forum
18 Feb Coding With Tom
16 Feb IT BURNS!
14 Feb Facebook
12 Feb Powerthirst & Poker
12 Feb Powerthirst & Poker
4 Feb My Last Day
4 Feb Beware!
30 Jan Lan Parties
18 Jan Job Advertisements: Part Two
17 Jan The Prank
14 Jan My First Rails Patch
13 Jan Cloverfield & Poker Night
13 Jan Cloverfield & Poker Night
12 Jan It Runs In The Family
11 Jan Testing: There Has To Be A Better Way
10 Jan Job Advertisements
9 Jan Comments
7 Jan The Weekend From Hell
6 Jan Restful Routing: An Overview
3 Jan Scammer Gets Owned
2 Jan Rant War

2007

27 Dec Dear Rails Noobs
23 Dec Eyes
22 Dec Tips to Surviving Commercilisation Day
19 Dec More Migration Sexiness - remove_columns & add_columns
19 Dec More Migration Sexiness - remove_columns & add_columns
16 Dec Printer Troubles
13 Dec Train Doors
12 Dec December Meetup
7 Dec Railscamp Summary
27 Nov Why I Help Others
22 Nov Poker Night
19 Nov Layin' The Smackdown!
12 Nov About Time
9 Nov Like Peppering
1 Nov Poker Night #2, Revision #2
31 Oct The Train System
22 Oct The Debate
21 Oct Karma Rules
17 Oct Poker Night
16 Oct Why I Don't Respond
9 Oct Journalism
8 Oct Weekend Summary
8 Oct LPC Report
4 Oct Rails 2.0
3 Oct The Camera Saga
3 Oct How to Work Out if a Date is a Leap Year in Ruby
1 Oct Why Not To: Ever Underestimate The Simplest Of Tasks
22 Sep Pity the Fool
19 Sep Rocky
18 Sep Act Like A Pirate Day
15 Sep I Hate Banks
12 Sep I Has A Keyboards!
10 Sep RESTful Routes
7 Sep God And Why She's Pissed
2 Sep The Bike Ride
31 Aug Giving Away: One (1) Uncle
30 Aug I'm On Rails!
28 Aug August Lan Event
27 Aug The Crisis in Adelaide
23 Aug Hair
23 Aug 10,000 Users for WSI
22 Aug Assume the Position!
17 Aug Guidelines For Action Movies
11 Aug InLAN August Event
6 Aug Is It Really A Cause For Celebration?
4 Aug The Mystery of The Wardrobes
31 Jul Traffic Light & Train myths
31 Jul Traffic Light & Train myths
21 Jul Valhalla July Event
20 Jul Traveling Salesman
11 Jul When Duplication May Seem Necessary
5 Jul He Who Codes In Ruby...
2 Jul Ruby in Schools
29 Jun Where Four is One
28 Jun Reliability
25 Jun Yet Another Story
22 Jun Google Search Almost Everything
18 Jun Error 21 - GRUB - SOLVED!
17 Jun Why Not?
15 Jun Pimp My Case!
14 Jun When DCHP goes bad!
13 Jun Damn Ubuntu!
7 Jun We Got a Monopoly on Monopoly
6 Jun Testing and Migrations
5 Jun Writer's Block
2 Jun Blazin' Guns
31 May Now 99% Fat Free and with Added RSS!
29 May Ain't That Perfect?
24 May Clothes Go Here
20 May I'm Open!
19 May Valhalla - May Event