Morphlex now has a new algorithm that produces extremely optimal DOM morphs for inserts, removals and sorts. github.com/yippee-fun/m...

This post from @honeybadger.io is about runtime types, it just doesn’t know it! It does a good job of demonstrating the simplicity and power of Ruby’s === interface, and a runtime type is simply “an object that responds to ===.”

www.honeybadger.io/blog/level-...

If you haven’t yet come across the Ruby Next project from @palkan.bsky.social and Evil Martians, do yourself a favor and check it out. Especially the require-hooks gem (github.com/ruby-next/r...), which allows you to define custom “around” callbacks for when a source file is required.

If the only or primary reason you like types in your source code is to have a richer, fancier text editing experience with more dropdowns that have more items in them, you are cosplaying being a developer.

Joel and I have made fantastic progress on our Ruby enhancements gem that brings rich runtime type assertions into your Ruby projects and Rails apps. Joel recorded a short demo of how to add type constraints to method definitions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9r...

I recorded a quick demo of my latest project, Empirical, a pre-processor for Ruby that builds on Literal’s runtime type system. youtu.be/G9rxcepewas

I’m preparing a talk, and I’d love to get a clearer picture of the wider community’s conception of what a “type” is. What definition would you give? What is the primary purpose of defining and using types? What constitutes a “type system”?

I want to hear from you.

This a great encapsulation of how Joel and I pursue the most beautiful, ergonomic, productive DX we can imagine for the problems we tackle. In this case, we finally cracked the nut on adding typing to method signatures in a way that feels like native Ruby.

Joel and I have recently focused on our runtime typing approach for Ruby. Last week, we finally cracked the nut on adding types to method signatures in a way that feels beautiful and native to Ruby. Joel walks thru our thought process and aesthetics: joel.drapper.me/p/ruby-type...

2 kinds of 🐞:

Bug of Omission: The system refuses to proceed. It raises, crashes, or otherwise stops doing anything.

Bug of Commission: The system does the wrong thing. It silently deletes records, returns incorrect results, or processes invalid inputs.

Bugs of Omission and Bugs of Commission joel.drapper.me/p/omission-c...

Everyone should provide their top 10 features for Firefox to focus on: interop-rank.jakearchibald.com/

There is mich wisdom in this post: alfy.blog/2025/10/04/...

The web platform is such a marvel; it deserves developers building *with* it and not *against* it. I, for one, am going to try and do my part sharing more on how to leverage the platform to create beautiful experiences.

Today has been a pretty amazing day…

Say hello to Emma Elanor Margheim and wish her a happy birthday!

I love what @calebporzio.bsky.social is doing w/ Flux UI, and the new pillboxes component is 😍. I enjoy trying to build components without an ounce of JS anywhere to be found. Mine requires keyboard nav with TAB, but is otherwise basically identical: play.tailwindcss.com/qB07fPsFG9

#StylishHTML

Yes, it is slow and steady progress, but we are genuinely building an amazing community of people and suite of tools for Ruby web developers. You should come hang out with us at discord.gg/fEMYkKQA

Rails 8.1.beta1 ships with this PR adding min_connections to database configuration. This will benefit SQLite on Rails apps a ton, preventing write throughput saturating the connection pool and holding back reads.

github.com/rails/rails...

Now open sourced!

github.com/basecamp/act...

My favorite upcoming feature coming to the Rails ecosystem is ActiveRecord::Tenanted, which is an exciting new gem coming from @flavorjon.es soon.

Everyone gets a database!

The future of Rails is very very bright, especially for those of us who have already seen the light of the power of SQLite on Rails