If The Shoe Fritz

Recently I stopped a group of flaky tests from running in CI. 60% of CI runs were failing because of this group, which was unsustainable.

If you’re following the AI hype train, you’ll have heard serious software people talk about building software (without needing to code) while they take their kids to the park.

I gave a workshop at EuRuKo 2025 based on the noisy animals code kata.

Software delivery plans that consist purely of a list of tasks assume that learning is done before any code is written.

You can skip straight to the list of falsehoods if you recognise this article’s genre from the title or you’re not someone who likes caveats and explanations.

Your database monitoring (perhaps Amazon RDS performance insights, Skylight, or the Postgres pg_stat_activity view) is telling you that one particular query in your Rails app is causing heavy load.

I recently heard of a Rails 7 config option called config.active_record.query_log_tags_enabled.

Refactoring is a wonderful practice for making code and change easier to manage.

I created a code kata!

In a 2017 post (on thoughtbot.com where this post originally appeared) German Velasco wrote about how to think about and do refactoring right.