Jonathan Yeong

The beauty of open source is that no one is forced to be there.

Productive procrastination is one of my favourite pastimes.

This was a year of peaks and valleys.

I've been running a DevEx team all of 2025, and I really wished I had some sort of guidebook when I started.

I recently made the switch to using Ghost as a headless CMS and I needed to load posts into my Astro site.

A while back, I set up Obsidian for my blog post workflow.

After a months-long redesign with some stops and starts, I’m psyched to finally share my new site with you!

I love seeing people grow and overcome challenges.

Ever looked at a website and thought “wow, that’s beautiful” but couldn’t explain why?

I’m an atrocious reader of non-fiction articles or books.

I’m trying to read more these days, and I wanted to share some posts that I enjoyed recently.

Lately, I’ve been feeling extra energy to pursue my goals.

Development containers, aka dev containers, have been around since 2019.

Today marks the end of my 30 days of posts challenge.

I had a bad bout of imposter syndrome last week.

I’ve been away from Ruby on Rails for a couple of years.

You’ve been working hard on a Rails application.

For me, pair programming is the best way to solve complex problems.

I’ll always be a Kelsey Hightower fan.

I’m learning about Terraform, and it’s all magic to me right now.

For once, I’m excited about my job.

I was inspired by Nick Taylor’s post “Tools that keep me productive”, to document tools I use daily.

Years ago, I was fully hooked to the world of productivity.

What I’m trying to achieve I have two models: Training Steps Training Session which has many Training Steps When a user creates a Training Session, I want a form that contains fields for Training Steps inside the Training Session form.

I decided to try TinaCMS (aka Tina).

I use asdf to manage my Ruby versions.

Syntax FM released a podcast episode 11 habits of highly effective developers yesterday, it’s filled with anecdotes, and great advice.

I recently added more automation around my blog post publishing workflow.

Before going on a trip this weekend, I wrote multiple posts so I didn’t need to write on my trip.

I’ve been writing a lot of Markdown lately.

Recently, I was working on a Rails app where I wanted to make some pretty URLs for it.

I came across this blog post by Rach Smith where they talk about Weblog Posting month.

Last year, I added a comments feature to my blog.

I’m back in Ruby on Rails land after two years using only Node/TS.

When I first join a company, I need some sort of structure.

My brain is terrible at visualizing and tracking how various concepts fit together.

Zeitwerk is a gem that loads Ruby files.

I went through months of interviews recently.

Burnout really sneaked up on me.

I noticed a weird bug on my blog the other day.

This month’s Virtual Coffee challenge is Build in Public.

What is the right amount of testing?

During my time at Shopify, I had the opportunity to work with a cloud development environment - and I was sold.

Building an API using an API first approach means that the API is the core deliverable.

If you’ve been here before you might have noticed a few things have changed.

OpenAPI is a specification (OpenAPI Specification (OAS)) that is a way to define how you interact with an API without needing to understand implementation logic.

What will you learn: What technology can be used to build a blog The process I have when building a site TL;DR - This site is built with SvelteKit and hosted on Netlify.

Update: I opened a Github issue for this all the way back in Aug 2020.

⚠️ This post may contain outdated content Continuous Integration (CI) is the act of automating the build and testing of your code when it’s committed to version control.

Today, I want to show you how to start building a blog using Phoenix.