Nate Berkopec

In May 2026, we are now five months post-Opus-4.5 and the great “Christmas Break Revolution” that saw us all hunkered down in front of our laptops over the new year.

A recent episode of the Rails Business Podcast was about “striving for ideal code”.

In 2019, I had a few mindset shifts around recurring, daily or near-daily work.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the importance of how ideas are packaged, and the effect this has on persuading the intended audience of the idea.

Another year has come and gone. 2019 was a pretty wild year for me, with a number of big life events and transformations like I haven’t had in a long time.

There are many different responsibilities for the maintenance of an open source project, and while some of them get called “maintainership”, I’m not sure they should be.

That’s me on Shark Tank.

In June of 2016, I received an email: The original email Dear sir: I’m from Syria , expected to graduate this semester (Computer Science) , and as you sir my role model in Ruby also Rails , I need some advice about open source projects in Ruby to learn fr…

Did I mention how awesome it is to live 30 minutes from a ski lift?