Ryan Bigg’s Blog

As a way of acknowledging “R U OK?”

As of last week, I’ve been working at Fat Zebra for 5 years.

After Rails’ Dear Leader DHH once again espoused far-right views on his blog (which I’m not going to link to here), some of the Ruby community said “enough is enough” and decided to fork Rails into a project called Amiko.

I’ve had a Comsol 3-in-1 wireless charger sitting on my desk for ages.

We’ve been working to a pretty tight deadline as a team recently.

Two weeks ago, the NPM endpoint that yarn audit from Yarn v1 uses, decided to stop working: I imagine this won't be fixed (unfortunately), but it looks like npm has silently deprecated the security audit API that Yarn 1 uses: yarn audit v1.22.22 error Err…

After the announcement that Heroku is entering maintenance mode, I got wary of the one (1) application I host on there going down.

At the end of May 2025, my partner (Shaz) and I went to buy a new house.

Finally got to the bottom of ridiculously slow build times on one of my applications.

At Fat Zebra, one of my duties as a team lead is managing the workloads of those I work with and falling into that ambit is bug triaging.