Kerrick Long (blog)

After a near-disaster, the agent powering Google Antigravity said something that surprised me.

You Should Probably Read These I universally recommend these books.

Ruby got a new website for its 30th birthday.

I was vibe coding with Antigravity tonight, and I broke it in the most bizarre way.

I just published a new gem: ratatui_ruby, which offers Ratatui bindings for Ruby.

With Ruby 4 set to release on Christmas Day and available in preview now, the Pragmatic Bookshelf just made a huge announcement.

Stephen Margheim (fractaledmind) wrote Affordances: The Missing Layer in Frontend Architecture this month.

My Reply I like this a lot.

I am not a graphic designer or a musician.

Chirag Mehta made a really great tool.

This is article is the first installment in the Workflow Patterns for AI-Assisted Development series.

When 37Signals launched Writebook in 2024, it was under their ONCE License Agreement.

For over a decade, Humble Bundle has offered DRM-free media for a great price, while also supporting charity.

I clicked a link from a 2-year-old Hacker News thread, and Nielsen Norman Group served up a 404 page.

With the publication of Design Patterns by the “Gang of Four,” Christopher Alexander’s pattern language format caught fire in software engineering.

When I was a younger developer, I thought I knew how to make code better by, as the kids would say today, following vibes.

As my wife and I were listening to Uncle Bob’s book on professionalism in software, this line surprised me.

I’ve been disconnected from the junior and hiring scene since I stepped back into an individual contributor role.

I’ve been making SPAs for over a decade, but I’ve always held the opinion that it’s only the right tool for web apps, not websites.

I haven’t written PHP for over a decade.

Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025 This is a fantastic deep-dive into the history of object-oriented programming with 50+ years of primary sources!

was a relative newbie to both agile and lean when I first met Mary and Tom Poppendieck at an Agile Conference in Salt Lake… Continue ReadingAutomated Tests as Waste vs.

I haven’t published since April because I’ve been afraid.

You should ship software that does nothing.

It’s been a while since I’ve had a crisis of confidence.

I’ve been paid to write web applications for over a decade, but my only exposure to ASP.NET has been as an API consumer on the front-end, and I’ve never touched Blazor.

I’ve been writing code for money for 17 years, but I’ve never used C# or any other .NET language.

Fizz Buzz, the children’s game turned coding interview question, requires little more than basic programming literacy to solve.

When I learned lean software development, I abandoned year-long planning at work and at home.

I’ve been programming for over two decades, and I can’t make a full-stack enterprise web application.