Mike Perham

My favorite tech movement in 2025 wasn’t anything artifical, but rather the resurgence in interest around building terminal interfaces with two new frameworks, Charm and Ratatui, which make developing pure text user interfaces easier than ever before using

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Sidekiq is the most popular background job framework for Ruby applications and over the last 13 years, it has reached maturity in its feature set.

Since its release last month, Sidekiq 8.0 has been very smooth with few reported issues.

After six months of hard work, I’m thrilled to announce the general availability of Sidekiq 8.0!

Conventional Commits is a defacto standard for writing commit messages in a manner more useful for both humans and machines.

I’m happy to announce a substantial $12,000 grant to the Hanami framework.

Sidekiq is the most popular background job framework for Ruby and works really well if you follow the design guidelines: keep your jobs short and idempotent.

A few weeks ago, the owners of Redis changed its licensing from BSD to a more limited source available license.

Ruby’s JSON library allows you to convert Ruby datatypes into a JSON document, as long as those types are native to JSON: String, bool, int, float, nil, Hash and Array.