Ryan

Just when I thought I was perfecting my brew….

This is a very cool idea and a great way for people to try out rails without installing anything.

YouTube video by N64 at Nite 🌙 Ocarina of Time is Cozy

This has been getting me through writing Postgres queries today

youtu.be/Y3_PIWalInY?...

Congrats Sy!

"Does anyone have a discount for NordVPN?"

The S in MCP stands for security

I am once again in awe of DBAs

This kind of goes back to the analogy of using a calculator. It makes things faster but you still need to know how to use it and roughly what it's doing.

I get that AI can be useful but does every app need to be AI?

Yeah, and suddenly the traffic’s a nightmare.

Does each copy also contain a @sheepfilms.bsky.social?

you wait ages for a bus, and then...

Words  |  Technical Writing  |  Google for Developers

> We researched documentation extensively, and it turns out that the best sentences in the world consist primarily of words.

I do like to see humour in docs and tutorials
developers.google.com/tech-writing...

Had a call with a user of my SaaS template earlier today. Some useful feedback but, more than anything, it was great to talk to someone who is building on top of something I built.

github.com/anvil-works/...

Say what you want about AI but it's great for regex

8 Tips for Writing Great Software Development Tutorials Good tutorials increase user engagement, user retention and reduce support queries. So, what makes a successful tutorial?

You’ve spent countless hours building a software development tool, open source project or an API and it’s time to write a tutorial for users. ✍

Good tutorials increase user engagement, user retention and reduce support queries. So, what makes a successful tutorial?

medium.com/@codingwithr...

How many times does this client code call the server? FWIW here’s some code we put in our startup module when we really want to know what server calls are occuring. It’s monkey patching, super gross, and should NOT be used in production, but can be reall...

This is such a lovely post on the @anvil.works forum - everyone helping each other and sharing knowledge. The community really is one of my favourite parts of working at Anvil.

anvil.works/forum/t/how-...

This is perfect.

I would like to believe the original thread is some stupid “all publicity is good publicity” marketing trick, rather than someone being silly enough to vibe code with prod DB access. It hurts a little to think it’s the latter

🧑‍🍳🤌

Git revert has once again proved its worth while working on a sunday evening

This really is a fantastic talk!

I love Scott's story, the emotion, the empathy, the humour ("Old timey") and, most importantly, the message.

Great talks at @owasplondon.bsky.social tonight. I've heard of pushing secrets to @github.com but never even considered someone copying and pasting them into an LLM

What makes Anvil so easy to learn? How long does it take to “learn” Anvil? Let’s take a look.

One of Anvil's strengths - it's easy to learn! 🎓

Read more about why in my latest blog post:
anvil.works/blog/anvils-...

AI coding assistants are great but turning the autocomplete setting to slow is key

AI autocomplete when I'm trying to write can be incredibly useful but also incredibly distracting. If only AI could sense when I'm in a flow state and not disturb me.

It will be interesting to see whether Google's AI Overviews is the final straw that gets their monopoly broken up

Worth a read from @evanhahn.com

> I’ve sometimes written business logic first, which I later discarded once the UI came into play, because I miscalculated how it would be used... It’s easier to make the right API decisions when I start with how it will be used.

evanhahn.com/how-i-build-...

Djecrety Djecrety is a Django secret key generator. This is a web tool to generate SECRET_KEY and also have a Django package that does this simply with a command.

I love incredibly specific dev websites

djecrety.ir

"Don't keep opening up new construction sites when you haven't closed the current ones." - This is such good advice when working on coding projects

Developer advocacy isn't just about writing posts and giving talks. It's about listening to developers.

> Clean, modern, well-structured projects gave much better results than legacy code with unclear patterns.

This is where I've noticed it falter most