Spatial Queries with SpatiaLite and Ruby on Rails
SpatiaLite is a great alternative to PostGIS/PostgreSQL if you want to stick to SQLite. Previously, we set up SpatiaLite in a simple demo application. To jog...
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Getting Started with SpatiaLite on Ruby on Rails
Locations are easy, right? All you need are coordinates - longitude and latitude - and you can put things on a map. But once you need distances, intersection...
Pi is Vim for Agentic Coding
What I love about Vim is its simplicity. Yes, I’m serious. Everyone jokes about being unable to quit the editor, and about the steep learning curve, but I re...
The Golden Age of Copy-Paste
I’ve been copy-pasting a lot of code recently. Not in the copy-from-stack-overflow-without-understanding-what-it-does kind of way, but in the deliberate, thi...
Custom Walker Menus with Lua
When I switched to Wayland early this year, I had to wave goodbye to my trusty Rofi and find a new application launcher. Enter Walker - a fast, customizable ...
One Version to Rule Them All
Managing different tools in your modern Ruby on Rails application can be a pain. You definitely use Ruby. You probably use Node, and some package manager - n...
Ruby on Rails, Claude Code and Worktrees
Here’s how I use Claude Code to develop Ruby on Rails applications. Mostly medium sized ones that have been around for a while. No green-field, everything-is...
Multi Select with Hotwire Combobox
Recently, I put some work into lowering the barrier to contributing talks to RubyEvents. Not entirely out of the kindness of my heart, I might add. As the or...
Customizing Solr Highlighting with Sunspot
Need full-text text search in your web app? You don’t have to use Elasticsearch. There are alternatives. Even in 2025, some will refuse to switch to Elastics...
Porting a Ruby Gem to the browser with ruby.wasm
When I built a small Ruby command-line tool - Tints ‘N Shades - I wondered: What does it take to run this library in the browser? Can it be done? Should it b...