Making your site visible to LLMs and AI agents: 6 techniques that work, 8 that don't 🔗
Authors: Rita Klubochkina, Sr. Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, DX, SDKs, extensions & plugins, Frontend & real-time, LLM [...]
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The Agents on Rails Files: enter lemans, a Ruby harness for fair agent races 🔗
Authors: Vladimir Dementyev, Principal Backend Engineer, Artur Petrov, Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Rails, AI, Open Source [...]
How to make postMessage type-safe in under 350 bytes 🔗
Authors: Pavel Grinchenko, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: DX, Open Source, TypeScript, JavaScript Typed-channel is a libra [...]
The Agents on Rails Files: designing black-box evals for coding agents 🔗
Authors: Vladimir Dementyev, Principal Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, Rails, DX, LLM benchmarking, Agentic development, [...]
Why engineers should come to the SF Ruby Conference in 2026 (+ hidden discount) 🔗
Authors: Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians. I build developer tools and study the market that funds them., and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: D [...]
Don’t get burned, make your Stripe MRR boring and correct 🔗
Authors: Kirill Yakovenko, Account Manager, Valentin Kiselev, Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Developer Products, Product dev [...]
Don't bet on SELECT's order: shuffle your rows and see what folds 🔗
Authors: Yaroslav Kurbatov, Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: DX, Rails, PostgreSQL, Ruby, Python, Continuous Integration Post [...]
SF Ruby Conference: regular ticket prices end September 30 🔗
Authors: Camila Mirabal, Tech writer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Developer Community, Rails, AI Regular SF Ruby Conference tickets are $4 [...]
AI makes design system guardrails mandatory; this framework delivers them 🔗
Authors: Anton Lovchikov, Head of Design, Yuri Mandrikov, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, DX, Agentic development AI ha [...]
Rails Hyperdrive: supercharged agentic development for Rails 🔗
Authors: Albert Pazderin, Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Open Source, Rails, AI, SDKs, extensions & plugins, Ruby on Rails c [...]
Give up a little speed, get your team back 🔗
Author: Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians. I build developer tools and study the market that funds them. Topics: AI, Developer Community, DX, Agent [...]
The Golden Switch, or migrating from Gatsby to Astro in under 9¾ days 🔗
Authors: Rita Klubochkina, Sr. Frontend Engineer, Victoria Melnikova, Head of New Business, Host of Dev Propulsion Labs, and Travis Turner, Tech Edito [...]
Why Gusto hired Evil Martians for Sidekiq infrastructure 🔗
Author: Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians. I build developer tools and study the market that funds them. Topics: Case Study, Rails, AI, Ruby on Rai [...]
10 anti-AI slop moves for frontend projects going faster than humans can review 🔗
Authors: Yuri Mikhin, Software Engineer, Figma plugin maker, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: DX, AI, Frontend & real-time, Product development, [...]
Access control for AI agents on Rails: gating SQL with Action Policy 🔗
Authors: Igor Platonov, Backend Engineer, Anton Senkovskiy, Account Manager, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, Rails, Open Source, Ruby, LLMs [...]
Get in, human: cut Rails boot time with require-profiler and this guide 🔗
Authors: Artur Petrov, Backend Engineer, Vladimir Dementyev, Principal Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Rails, DX, Performance [...]
Publish agent skills like packages: discovery index, digests, and install sources 🔗
Authors: Rita Klubochkina, Sr. Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, DX, SDKs, extensions & plugins, Frontend & real-time, LLM [...]
Fair by design: orchestrating background jobs in Ruby 🔗
Authors: Alexander Baygeldin, Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Rails, Performance, Ruby on Rails consulting, Product developme [...]
5 best practices for preventing chaos in Tailwind CSS 🔗
Authors: Nina Torgunakova, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Frontend & real-time, Tailwind CSS, CSS, JavaScript Tailwind CSS [...]
+14% activated users for AppSignal: designing a new homepage in code 🔗
Authors: Gleb Stroganov, Product Designer, Rita Klubochkina, Sr. Frontend Engineer, Varya Nekhina, Account Manager, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Top [...]