From 0 signal to 128 cold signups: product validation on a $2K budget 🔗
Authors: Gleb Stroganov, Product Designer, Varya Nekhina, Account Manager, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Case Study, Developer Products, Prod [...]
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3 rules for getting AI agents to find, use—and not exploit—your devtool 🔗
Authors: Irina Nazarova, CEO, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, Developer Community The agent-led growth playbook: how to make AI agents dis [...]
Making your site visible to LLMs: 6 techniques that work, 8 that don't 🔗
Authors: Rita Klubochkina, Sr. Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, DX, Agent Experience, LLMs, Jamstack Most AI SEO advice [...]
Now you see it: Vite on Rails without the proxy 🔗
Authors: Svyatoslav Kryukov, Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Rails, DX, Open Source, Vite, JavaScript, React Introducing rai [...]
Gemfile of dreams: the libraries we use to build Rails apps 🔗
Authors: Vladimir Dementyev, Principal Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Rails, Performance, Open Source, Performance & scale, [...]
Migrating an event pipeline from NATS to Kafka with zero downtime 🔗
Authors: Camila Mirabal, Tech writer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Case Study, DX, Infrastructure, Ruby on Rails Evil Martians migrated Wal [...]
TestProf Digest 2026.4: surprising finds from 30k specs 🔗
Authors: Vladimir Dementyev, Principal Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Performance, Rails, Open Source, Performance & scale [...]
We analyzed 1,140 devtools funding rounds—here's who's writing checks and why 🔗
Authors: Irina Nazarova, CEO, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topic: Developer Community We analyzed 1,140 early-stage funding rounds in developer too [...]
OpenAPI + NestJS: type-safe controllers from the contract 🔗
Authors: Yuri Mikhin, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: DX, TypeScript, Node.js NestJS is code-first by default meaning decor [...]
Tutorialkit.rb: interactive Ruby tutorials entirely in the browser 🔗
Authors: Albert Pazderin, Backend Engineer, Vladimir Dementyev, Principal Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Open Source, Rails, [...]
Product-market fit methodology for early-stage devtool companies 🔗
Author: Irina Nazarova, CEO Topics: Developer Community, Devtools startup advisory How do you measure product-market fit for a developer tool? A PMF [...]
Web slides are web apps: live interactivity for Reveal.js and Slidev 🔗
Authors: Irina Nazarova, CEO, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Open Source, Real-time, DX, WebSocket, JavaScript Nothing could make me switch f [...]
Why devtools startups hire Evil Martians 🔗
Authors: Victoria Melnikova, Head of New Business, Host of Dev Propulsion Labs, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Case Study, Developer Community [...]
OpenAPI + Fastify: let the contract build your server 🔗
Authors: Yuri Mikhin, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: DX, TypeScript, Node.js Wire your OpenAPI contract into a Node.js Fas [...]
The Flipper gem is amazing, here's how we extended it the Martian way 🔗
Authors: Andrey Novikov, Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Rails, Ruby A deep dive extending Flipper in Rails: friendly actor [...]
Solving the Nebraska problem with the Open Source Endowment 🔗
Authors: Victoria Melnikova, Head of New Business, Host of Dev Propulsion Labs, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Developer Products, Open Source [...]
Life's too short to hand-write API types: OpenAPI-driven React 🔗
Authors: Yuri Mikhin, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: React, TypeScript Transform your React development with contract-firs [...]
Ruby on Whales: Dockerizing Ruby and Rails development 🔗
Authors: Vladimir Dementyev, Principal Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Performance, Rails, DX, Performance & scale, Ruby, Doc [...]
Writing custom RuboCop rules in 2026 🔗
Authors: Yaroslav Kurbatov, Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: DX, Ruby Write and ship modern custom RuboCop cops in 2026: lear [...]
PostCSS creator shares how to make your open source popular 🔗
Authors: Andrey Sitnik, Author of PostCSS and Autoprefixer, Principal Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Open Source, Developer [...]