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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 9h

Your snappy statically generated @astro.build site deserves a search that likewise feels instant. Here’s how to get build-time indexing and client-side search that’s fuzzy, performant, and accessible. evilmartians.com/chronicles/h...

How to add fast, client-side search to Astro static sites—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Join me on a breathtaking journey as we add a client-side search to an SSG docs-first site, built with Astro!

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 1d

The Martian summer was not to be missed: open source, blogs, podcasts, talks, meetups, and getting ready for SFRuby, Nov 19-20. Read this one and catch up. evilmartians.com/chronicles/m...

Martian Summer: blog, talks, open source, and ready for SFRuby in Nov—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Open source, talks around the world and prepping SFRuby for Nov 2025. Catch up Evil Martians' blog, open source, podcast, and get ready as we head for SFRuby Conference in San Francisco.

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Fresh Fonts @freshfonts.io · 6d

🚨 Free Font of the Month 🚨

Martian Grotesk by @evilmartians.com

Ideal for use on the web, the typeface’s vertical metrics guarantee equal space above and below text, enabling text labels to be positioned evenly on buttons.

↳ Download link (at the bottom of the page): buff.ly/vcWXjg0

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 7d

Use Vite & TypeScript to build a true API-first repository command center. Get a dedicated contract-first documentation workflow, keep contracts the single source of truth, cut bottlenecks & give your team a fast, reliable way from design→implementation. evilmartians.com/chronicles/c...

Contract shock therapy: the way to API-first documentation bliss—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Learn how to build a dedicated API documentation repository that becomes your team's single source of truth, enabling true contract-first development.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 8d

Why is accurately detecting the Safari/iOS versions you’re dealing with key for modern web dev? Find the answers + our tips on painlessly identifying Safari/iOS versions in this new post! evilmartians.com/chronicles/h...

How to detect Safari and iOS versions with ease in 2025—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Read how to accurately detect Safari and iOS versions using WebKit feature checks, behavioral tests, and selective UA hints to gate features safely and avoid breaking UX.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 15d

The best funnel builder on the planet, ClickFunnels is one of the largest Rails monoliths. Together, we fixed a problem that isn't always a priority, but which has productivity costs that can be an annoying drain if allowed to multiply: flaky tests. evilmartians.com/chronicles/f...

Flaky tests, be gone: long-lasting relief for chronic CI retry irritation!—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Flaky tests got you down? The Evil Martians formula stops chronic CI retry irritation! Clinically proven on ClickFunnels' massive test suite and dozens of developers!

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you, @euruko.org 2025 and beautiful Viana do Castelo for the fantastic event, execution and energy of the Ruby community! From so many @evilmartians.com 💙

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 23d

Every large enough Rails app has extracted some services for performance and scalability reasons. You can do this without losing the joy of building with Ruby and Rails. Keep the recipes in Ruby, and only upgrade the "dumb" (unaware) kitchen tools. Here's how.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 23d

Scaling Rails doesn't have to mean rewrites or microservices. Read this new post to see how and why to keep your business logic in Ruby, while firing up your kitchen with Go, C, and Rust! evilmartians.com/chronicles/b...

Baking with Rails at scale: recipes in Ruby, cookware from Go, C, and Rust—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Scale your Rails app without rewrites. Learn to keep business logic in Ruby and delegate heavy work to specialized tools, built with Go, C, and Rust, for performance and scalability.

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · Sep 8

‼️ Friends, please pay attention:
grep -r "const _0x112" node_modules
if you found it, don't panic: update dependency
remove npm cache

Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · Sep 8

⚠️critical CVE in set of popular NPM packages: socket.dev/blog/npm-aut.... They contain malware that injects code & replaces transaction addresses; user wallet funds redirect to attacker-controlled addresses! check malicious versions in projects’ node_modules: “grep -r "const _0x112" node_modules”

npm Author Qix Compromised via Phishing Email in Major Suppl...

npm author Qix’s account was compromised, with malicious versions of popular packages like chalk-template, color-convert, and strip-ansi published.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · Sep 8

⚠️critical CVE in set of popular NPM packages: socket.dev/blog/npm-aut.... They contain malware that injects code & replaces transaction addresses; user wallet funds redirect to attacker-controlled addresses! check malicious versions in projects’ node_modules: “grep -r "const _0x112" node_modules”

npm Author Qix Compromised via Phishing Email in Major Suppl...

npm author Qix’s account was compromised, with malicious versions of popular packages like chalk-template, color-convert, and strip-ansi published.

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Open {re}Source @openresource.dev · Sep 6

12 years of PostCSS → 400M+ downloads/month. Lessons from the journey: collaborate early with other maintainers, keep libraries build-free for easier debugging, and focus on simplicity.
Great read on OSS longevity 🌟 #OpenSource
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What we learned from creating PostCSS—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

We share what have we learned creating PostCSS and the huge ecosystem around it. Get 8 key lessons from Andrey Sitnik, creator of PostCSS.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · Sep 3

Evil Martians cut Whop’s CI time in half in one week. This post walks through profiling to find hidden loggers, taming factory overhead, switching to smarter parallelization, and fixing the flaky tests that surfaced along the way. evilmartians.com/chronicles/t...

The Whop chop: how we cut a Rails test suite and CI time in half—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Evil Martians cut Whop’s Rails test suite and CI time in half using profiling, factory optimizations, and parallelization. Learn how we speed up tests and boost reliability.

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · Aug 28

⚡️ Irina Nazarova (@evilmartians.com): Cutting CI Build Time in Half for Whop
⚡️ Sergey Karayev (Superconductor ): Getting the Most out of AI Coding Agents for Your Rails App

Grab it here: youtu.be/IMAABWxnbUM

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · Aug 27

New post on adding Luau support for JetBrains IDEs! Covers how to balance PSI and LSP approaches + hurdles and gotchas to watch when adding a language to @jetbrains.com IDEs. evilmartians.com/chronicles/t...

The scenic route: lessons building an IntelliJ IDEA plugin for Luau—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

This post covers the complex (but rewarding) process of building native language support for JetBrains from scratch. From crafting lexers and parsers to wrestling with soft keywords, PSI trees, and er...

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · Aug 26

I started a new open source project:

Multiocular shows what’s changed in your node_modules after dependency updates.

Right now it just shows a diff, but I have many of idea.

It is part of my long-running fight against Supply Chain Attacks.

github.com/multiocular-...

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · Aug 26

From lexers and parsers to PSI trees, building language support in IntelliJ is a path full of pitfalls and possibilities. This post is a guide for anyone staring down that road! evilmartians.com/chronicles/t...

The scenic route: lessons from building IntelliJ IDEA language support—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

This post covers the complex (but rewarding) process of building native language support for JetBrains from scratch. From crafting lexers and parsers to wrestling with soft keywords, PSI trees, and er...

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · Aug 25

Active Push gem launched by @JacopoBeschi
@evilmartians.com wrote about Rails Renaissance
@yarotheslav.bsky.social shared about how to use email_image_tags
@davidteren talked about flunk and fail_after in minitest
@beautifulruby.com shared about Phlex components
and a lot more code samples

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ruby and Rails startups manage to inspire me every single day, thanks to @evilmartians.com. My dream is that they inspire YOU too. And it's happening! Here are the first ten Ruby startups that will demo their products at the #SFRuby conference in November, to inspire and connect with you all 💙

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · Aug 18

Huge shoutout to our team for helping me turn the RailsConf talk and lots of thoughts into this post about the cycles that technologies and innovation go through, why Rails emerged after a big drop in visibility, glimpses of what the future holds–and our roles in it!

Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · Aug 18

Rails is thriving. Read how Ruby on Rails survived the hype cycle, why startups are still betting on it, and what it means for your next project. evilmartians.com/chronicles/t...

The Long Game: why Rails survived the hype cycle and what it means for your startup—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Rails isn’t dead, it’s thriving. Learn how Ruby on Rails survived the hype cycle, why startups like Chime and Figma still bet on it, and what it means for your next project.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · Aug 18

Rails is thriving. Read how Ruby on Rails survived the hype cycle, why startups are still betting on it, and what it means for your next project. evilmartians.com/chronicles/t...

The Long Game: why Rails survived the hype cycle and what it means for your startup—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Rails isn’t dead, it’s thriving. Learn how Ruby on Rails survived the hype cycle, why startups like Chime and Figma still bet on it, and what it means for your next project.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · Aug 13

Adopting a circuit breaker pattern from day one? Our new post explains this approach and how it can now fit into Ruby projects of any size. Plus, we showcase a gem to help you contain cascading failures before everything flat lines. evilmartians.com/chronicles/c...

Circuit breakers and Ruby in 2025: don't break your launch—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Take a deep dive into what is a circuit breaker, why you might need them and what options do you have in Ruby.

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Kasper Timm Hansen @kaspth.com · Aug 11

I was impressed by how smooth the CFP process felt for SFRuby. So I'm glad this is now open source!

It's fun to poke around in there, particularly that they're using Associated Objects in one place 🥳 github.com/evilmartians...

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · Aug 6

We’re launching a new series of full open source apps, starting with Redprints CFP, built with Rails + Inertia.js! It powered our SF Ruby Conference’s proposal management process. Now, it’s your turn! evilmartians.com/chronicles/r...

Redprints CFP: an open source CFP management app built with Rails + Inertia.js—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Introducing Redprints CFP, an open source CFP management application built for the SF Ruby Conference with Rails and Inertia.js.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · Aug 5

We share what have we learned creating PostCSS and the huge ecosystem around it. Get 8 key lessons from @en.sitnik.ru, creator of PostCSS. evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

What we learned from creating PostCSS—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

We share what have we learned creating PostCSS and the huge ecosystem around it. Get 8 key lessons from Andrey Sitnik, creator of PostCSS.

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