 As we continue Railsmas, it's time to give our database toolset a makeover, starting with migrations, since they can introduce risks if not handled carefully! Read the new update here: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/railsmas-on-mars-12-days-of-mandatory-developer-joy-and-challenge#day-7-better-database-migrations  On Day 6 of Railsmas, we share some tips for a test suite so fast, Santa's elves will be jealous! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/railsmas-on-mars-12-days-of-mandatory-developer-joy-and-challenge?day=6  System tests got you feeling the winter blues? Day 5 of Railsmas has the fix! Read how to get smoother tests and more thoroughly secure your sanity. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/railsmas-on-mars-12-days-of-mandatory-developer-joy-and-challenge  Feeling stuck in a "Groundhog Day" loop with flaky tests? Break the cycle with today's 4th Martian gift: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/railsmas-on-mars-12-days-of-mandatory-developer-joy-and-challenge On this third day of Railsmas: an overlooked treasure for those who think their IDE already has everything. Open your mind, read, and see if you might just think twice about Ruby-LSP as a sign of productivity miracles yet to come https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/railsmas-on-mars-12-days-of-mandatory-developer-joy-and-challenge Dev tool users don’t need the typical onboarding process, period. Let’s share fundamentals and tips on how we help users reach ultimate productivity ASAP! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/easy-and-epiphany-4-ways-to-stop-misguided-dev-tools-users-onboarding Waiting for presents during the holidays is tough. Even worse? Waiting for your Rails application to load. Our Martian gift today is about soothing this restlessness. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/railsmas-on-mars-12-days-of-mandatory-developer-joy-and-challenge Over 12 days, we’re unwrapping 12 small (but mighty) approaches designed to level up your Rails apps. We’ll discuss, then suggest hands-on practice! First up, libyears. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/railsmas-on-mars-12-days-of-mandatory-developer-joy-and-challenge 🤔 Wondering how small Rails teams can build world-class UIs and win markets in 2025? Us too. We spent 2 years finding the perfect frontend toolkit for startup productivity. Here's the story, hot off the presses. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/keeping-rails-cool-the-modern-frontend-toolkit  @sampokuokkanen @andi there were some nice Mastodon references in there, good work 🙂 and now I'm investigating imgproxy...! AWS ECS, EC2, and Warm Pools: advantages and gotchas Stackblitz is a Rails startup success! 0 to $4M ARR in 4 weeks, exponential growth—likely boosting Supabase, too! How? Their new product: bolt.new! Learn what it is and see how StackBlitz used their tech base as an AI launchpad—and how we helped scale their platform to 3M+ devs! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/bolt-new-from-stackblitz-how-they-surfed-the-ai-wave-with-no-wipeouts We've worked with dozens of early-stage startups and seen how rushed product development can blur founder focus, blow up budgets, and lead to frustration. In this post, we lay out common stumbles and share lessons from those in our orbit. We already proved that a combination of AnyCable, Twilio, and Hanami could be a performant real-time solution for phone systems. Now, we band together AnyCable, Twilio, and OpenAI’s Realtime API to help integrate a voice assistant into your project. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/anycable-speaking-needing-help-with-a-twilio-openai-connection With AnyCable’s help, Evil Martians leveraged Go for real-time processing in a Ruby on Rails monolith—Doximity's success shows you don't need to abandon your Rails app to achieve high-performance, real-time features. Launch weeks are a tested promotional strategy for early stage startups (and especially for developer tools with small teams!) In this new post, we untangle launch weeks and share tips for organizing your own. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/how-to-do-launch-weeks-for-developer-tools-startups-and-small-teams There are a lot of opacity misconceptions, like “opacity hits performance” or “opacity is just bad”. But we’re myth-busting all of them and showing how it can make workflows more efficient and flexible—especially useful for startups and fast-moving teams! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/woah-opacity-a-full-guide-to-this-badass-hero-of-efficient-ui-design Ever wanted to write your own Go code generator but didn't know how to begin? Our new post shares a starting point! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/a-taste-of-go-code-generator-magic-a-quick-guide-to-getting-started If you have experience in designing developer-faced applications, look at our new job: we’re hiring a Product Designer! Your knowledge of UX patterns, a keen eye for aesthetics, communication and engineering skills are welcomed! It's a given that we now design AI products ...and actually, we more than *just* design them! Read (and see) our work with Tegon, where we researched AI capabilities and seamlessly integrated them into the task creation process for an AI-first UX & UI. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/designing-tegon-a-signature-vision-for-the-ai-driven-issue-tracker |
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