Mati Palak

Gave my first-ever public talk last Tuesday! Presented the ADR pattern at KRUG meetup, hosted at our inFakt office.

Nervous? Very. Worth it? Absolutely.
Home turf advantage helped a lot.

If you're thinking about speaking at a local meetup - just do it.

#ruby #rubyonrails

Waiting here already 😅

New repo alert! 🎉

Jirasaur is coming to Windows. First commit just landed.

macOS ✅
Windows 🚧
Linux... maybe? 👀

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YouTube video by Mateusz Palak The Most PACKED Elevator in Arc Raiders History

The Most PACKED Elevator in Arc Raiders History
www.youtube.com/watch?v=abvu...

Before & after. One prompt, 5 min wait (deploy time included)

YouTube video by Mateusz Palak Jirasaur Demo — Automatic Time Tracking for Jira + Daily Standup Prep

Coding? Easy.
Recording a 3-minute demo? Brutal.

Spent all day on my first product video. New respect for creators who do this regularly.

btw what's your go-to tool for thumbnails?

youtu.be/gucc8VVvp_I

Blanking out at daily standup? Same.

That's why I added automatic daily summaries to Jirasaur - you'll get a recap of yesterday's work every morning.

Tasks, time, comments. All there.

jirasaur.com

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Good sleep → good recovery → good work.

Nice, I will take a look

Indie devs: What analytics do you actually use?

I need to track conversions on jirasaur.com without:
❌ Slowing down the site
❌ Creeping out privacy-conscious devs
❌ Losing 50% of data to cookie rejections

Google Analytics? Plausible? PostHog?

What works for you?

View Transitions API is criminally underrated.

Added this to Jirasaur:
::view-transition-old(logo),
::view-transition-new(logo) {
animation-duration: 0.5s;
}

Result: Smooth logo morph 🥚

Native. Fast. Beautiful.

New year but still seeing last year in website footers?
In Rails, don’t hardcode the year. Just use a helper:

current_year = Time.current.year

✔️ updates automatically
✔️ no deploy needed
✔️ nothing to remember next year

How do you handle this in your stack?

Everyone's doing Wrapped.

Spotify has music.
GitHub has contributions.
Strava has runs.

Jirasaur has... two numbers 🦕

(Hours tracked + Jira tasks. Simple, but honest work)

What's the best "Wrapped" you've seen this year?

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Driving home for Christmas and just shipped Jirasaur 1.2.0 for macOS. Finally automatic updates - no more manual downloads! Plus account switching, notifications center, redesigned timer window, and more.
Now it’s time to slow down, rest, and recharge.
Wishing you all happy holidays 🎄
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It's 1 AM. Should be sleeping.

Instead? Generating AI videos for a 15-second Jirasaur origin story.

Is that healthy? Probably not.
Is it necessary? Absolutely not.

First time using AI video. Worth every failed attempt.

Who's ready for Part 2? Drop a 🦕 if you want to see it.

3 hours deep into Atlassian OAuth hell. Just want to give Jirasaur users an easier way to integrate with Jira than copying API keys.

Documentation: "easy peasy"
My config: follows docs perfectly
API response: 401 "scope does not match"

Update coming if I survive this

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Finally picked up my ruby passport at KRUG today! 💎
Thanks to the organizers @lucas.mendelowski.com and everyone behind this great initiative! @adrianthedev.com

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Week 3 of Jirasaur 🥚→🦖

✅ Git hooks management (update/uninstall)
✅ Continuous tracking (user suggestion!)
✅ Jira connection confirmation
✅ Account deletion (GDPR ftw)
✅ Sprint-less boards support
✅ Save notifications

The big one:
Redesigned desktop UI to look like macOS X era.

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Ever notice the best automation tools aren't built by CS grads fresh out of school?

They're built by career switchers who spent years manually doing the thing they're now automating

You can't solve a problem you've never actually felt.

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Everyone thinks I don't sleep because I'm still up coding, but my Whoop stats just landed and the numbers say otherwise.

And somehow I'm averaging 7.5 hours a night.

Not a zombie yet.

Still not sure how this works 😅

The indie dev dopamine loop:

Ship a feature

It works

You get ideas for 3 more features

Code until 3am

Ship again

Repeat

Can't stop won't stop

...and now it’s 7am and I’m heading to my actual job at the office 😅

20 years younger according to Spotify 😆

Week 1 of Jirasaur 🥚

Day 1: 5 signups
Day 2: "Setup is confusing"
Day 3-4: Built onboarding
Day 5: Shipped it

This is why building small matters.

Big company: 3 months of planning
Solo dev: 3 days from feedback to fix

Try the new onboarding.

What should I fix next?

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Really appreciate that! 🦕

Main things I'm curious about:

1. Setup flow - is connecting Jira intuitive or confusing?
2. Git hooks - does auto-detection from branch name work reliably?
3. What's missing that you'd expect from a time tracker?

Brutally honest feedback > polite feedback 🙏

🥚 I've been building Jirasaur - a tool that solves a problem I face daily at work.
Jira tickets + time tracking + Git workflow automation. Native macOS app.
Most of you are developers. I need your feedback.
Who wants to test it? 🦕

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Rails Built-in Rate Limiting: A Deep Dive Ruby on Rails 7.2 introduces a powerful, built-in rate limiting mechanism directly into Action...

Cool, rainy summer day in Poland - perfect for digging into Rails internals and writing! ☔️ Just published a guide based on adding built-in rate limiting to a production app. 🚀

dev.to/palak/rails-...

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RubyEnv - Ruby Development, Perfected on macOS A native macOS app for managing Ruby environments. Built with care for Rails developers.

RubyEnv.app Beta is Live 🎉

Me: “I’ll build a whole beta invite system”

Also me: just drops the link

🔗 rubyenv.app/download
📄 rubyenv.app/docs
💬 rubyenv.app/beta-feedback/new

support@rubyenv.app if it breaks 💎

Mateusz Palak on Ruby Friends Ask me about Ruby

I created a rubyfriends profile: rubyfriends.app/profiles/WCRF

What I learned while building ActiveRubyist Back in July 2024, I published my last post on this blog. Since then, I’ve been quiet — at least...

People keep asking me: “What are you building?”

After almost a year of blog silence, I wrote a post:
🛠️ Building activerubyist.com
💎 Rails 8, Hotwire, Kamal
🧠 Lessons, mistakes, bots, fun

👇 Read here:
🔗 dev.to/palak/what-i...

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