CTO Academy Changed How I Think About Leadership
I got my CTO Academy certification a couple years ago. Best investment I made in my career. Here's why every developer should consider it.
My Take on Tech & Leadership
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SF Ruby Conference Videos Are Live. Watch This One First.
SF Ruby Conference 2025 videos are live. Start with Carmine Paolino's RubyLLM keynote—one API for every AI model, pure Ruby elegance.
Stop Audio When Leaving Pages in Hotwire Native
Audio keeps playing when users navigate away in Hotwire Native. Three solutions: Stimulus disconnect, viewWillDisappear override, or native player. Here's when to use each.
How to Switch Tabs from Links in Hotwire Native
Hotwire Native doesn't handle tab switching out of the box. Here's the path configuration pattern I use in PrayAI and Fitivity to make links switch tabs automatically.
Vibecoding Made Building Easy. Here's the Hard Part.
You can build your product idea faster than ever. But user acquisition and product-market fit are still unsolved problems. Here's the one method that works—and how to implement it.
Turbo & RubyLLM: Build a Streaming AI Chat in Rails
Build a ChatGPT-style streaming chat interface using RubyLLM and Turbo Streams. Real-time AI responses, automatic persistence, zero JavaScript API calls.
Testing Turbo with Rails: Request Specs, Broadcasts, and System Tests
assert_turbo_stream, broadcast testing, WebSocket timing in system tests. The complete guide to testing Turbo applications in Rails.
turbo-rails: The Complete Guide to Rails Helpers for Turbo
turbo_frame_tag, turbo_stream_from, Broadcastable, and all the Rails helpers that make Turbo feel native. Stop writing raw HTML tags.
CSV Uploads with Live Progress Using Turbo Streams
Upload a CSV, kick off a background job, watch the progress bar fill in real-time. No JavaScript polling. Just Turbo Streams and Action Cable.
Turbo Performance: Caching, Prefetching, and Morphing
Turbo's speed comes from avoiding work: snapshot cache for instant back buttons, prefetching on hover, morphing to preserve state. Here's how it works.
Turbo Streams: Real-Time Updates Without Writing JavaScript
Nine actions, two delivery methods. Server sends HTML fragments, Turbo applies them. Chat, notifications, live dashboards—no client-side state management.
Turbo Frames: Update Just Part of Your Page
Wrap content in a turbo-frame tag and links inside it only update that region. Modals, tabs, pagination, inline editing—no JavaScript required.
Turbo Drive: Zero-Config Speed for Your Entire Site
Include one library and every link click becomes instant. Turbo Drive intercepts navigation, swaps content via AJAX, and makes your server-rendered app feel like a SPA.
Why Turbo? Stop Overcomplicating Your Web Apps
Most web apps don't need React. Turbo gives you SPA-level speed with server-rendered simplicity—19KB instead of 200KB+ of JavaScript complexity.
I'm Building Companies With 3-Person Teams. Here's How.
The era of bloated startups is over. Ruby Growth Labs is my bet on Rails, AI, and tiny teams that ship fast and generate revenue faster.
What Publishers Need to Know About Curation
Your SSP just pitched you on "curation." Here's what they're actually selling—and the 6 questions you need to ask before opting in.
Curation Is Just Sell-Side Targeting. Here's Why That Matters.
The ad tech industry loves inventing new words for old concepts. "Curation" is sell-side targeting dressed up in new clothes. But the implications are huge—it represents a real shift in where targeting happens and who controls it.
Ruby 4.0 Just Dropped. Here's What Actually Matters.
Ruby 4.0 shipped on Christmas Day with ZJIT (a next-gen compiler from Shopify), Ruby Box for isolation, redesigned Ractors, and Set/Pathname as core classes. Here's what matters for production apps and whether you should upgrade.
Ruby Turns 30 Years Old. It's Still the Smart Choice.
Ruby just turned 30 and celebrated with Ruby 4.0 on Christmas Day. While the tech industry chases shiny frameworks, Ruby keeps quietly powering billion-dollar companies like Shopify, GitHub, and Airbnb. Here's why this "boring" choice is your smartest tech bet.
The 24-Hour Innovation Cycle (Without Burning Out Your Team)
I've been running engineering teams across the US, Eastern Europe, and India for over 15 years. One of the most exciting things about this model is the potential for a near-24-hour innovation cycle - work genuinely moves around the clock. But recently, I've watched some of my teams burn the midnight oil a little too hard. Engineers staying up 24 hours because they felt they needed real-time collaboration. That's not the goal. That's a failure mode.