Jorge Manrubia

I am rarely opening my code editor anymore.

Claiming that “all my code is now written by an agent” is ambiguous.

In another life, I wanted to become a civil servant.

I loved this reflection by Andrej Karpathy about how he has never felt so far behind as a programmer.

I have been wanting to revamp my personal site for a while.

Follow-up video addressing viewer questions about Fizzy including testing and fixtures, modeling questions, AI, multi tenancy, view layer (templates, helpers, view components), and more.

How to architect Rails apps is the subject of many heated debates.

Any AI-powered feature we add will either be amazing or it won’t.

Lexxy is a new editor for Action Text developed by 37signals.

If you’re part of a collective, both of the following can be true at the same time: (1) There are great individuals in your group. (2) The group has deep structural problems.

Exploring how abstractions should hide distracting details while showing essential information, and examining how good explanations distinguish useful abstractions from poor ones.

We just went through a selection for a junior position at 37signals.

Action Text in Rails will get much better soon.

Nobody loves urgencies, but a sense of urgency is a blessing.

A modern rich text editor for Rails.

I joined 37signals five and a half years ago.

I recently made a point about the disconnection between good programmers and formal degrees.

A precious moment when working on an idea is seeing the first spark.

Hotwire Spark is a new live-reloading system for Rails applications that automatically updates pages when source code changes, with a focus on providing a smooth, seamless feedback loop rather than jarring full-page reloads.

Minimal dependencies, maximum productivity.