The fact that we're slowly removing the apprenticeship layer and passing it off as "productivity gains" should be far more alarming. Just imagine. The kind of work that is best suited for AI, such as boilerplate code, simple CRUD endpoints, and basic component wiring, is actually similar to the work that helps in training junior developers. It was not that we were working on those tasks because th
Tbh I had no idea this was even a thing until recently. I've been working with Rails for a while now and somehow never came across it. So let me explain it the way I understood it. You know how we normally do associations in Rails, User has many Posts, Post belongs to User. Two different models, two different tables. Simple. But what if a model needs to reference itself? Like same table, same mode
Applicant Tracking Systems used to be boring. For most of the 2010s, an ATS was essentially a database with a careers page bolted on top: a place to dump resumes, push them through a pipeline of stages, and email rejections in bulk. The interesting work happened around it, not inside it. That has shifted in the last two years, and the shift is deeper than the marketing pages suggest. I have spent
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Why I built another Ruby test runner inspired by Playwright Test Ruby already has great testing tools. If you are building Rails applications today, you probably use one of these combinations: RSpec + Capybara Minitest + Capybara Rails system tests Maybe Selenium, Cuprite, Ferrum, or Playwright through Ruby bindings These tools are mature, battle-tested, and widely used. So the natural question