shey

Systems thinker. Rails backend dev. Postgres fan. Former Python developer. Linux user ๐Ÿง.

2025-07-05

Excite.

A picture of the book: "High Performance Postgresql for Rails" by Andrew Atkinson.
2025-06-29

I wrote a post on reliability practice. No chaos monkeys, but quiet drills: restarting services, simulating load, seeing what breaks before it actually does.

shey.ca/2025/06/27/practice-be

shey boosted:
Lorin Hochstein :verified:norootcause@hachyderm.io
2025-06-20

Hot take: I think itโ€™s both easier and more impactful to identify and address obstacles to dev productivity in an org than it is to measure dev productivity

2025-06-20

@james_exe +1 for MiniTest. Super underrated.

2025-06-18

Another amazing post on ruby internals by the folks on the Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team at Shopify.

railsatscale.com/2025-06-03-im

2025-06-17

@nogweii totally

2025-06-16

@andrewnez I really enjoyed reading the eccosystems codebases ๐Ÿ‘.

2025-06-16

Added 8 new projects to opensourcerails.dev this weekend:

Freika/dawarich
octobox/octobox
solidusio/solidus
zammad/zammad
shey/opensourcerails.dev
chatwoot/chatwoot
otwcode/otwarchive
department-of-veterans-affairs/vets-api

Explore the full list ๐Ÿ‘‡

opensourcerails.dev

2025-06-13

@gianni whoa! thank you! much appreciated!

2025-06-13

I used to visit opensourcerails.org all the time when I was getting back into Rails. When it went offline, I really missed it.

So I brought it back: opensourcerails.dev

#rubyonrails #opensource

2025-06-12

Whoa, Amazon open-sourced their active-active postgresql replication extension.

github.com/aws/pgactive

2025-06-04

@simeon

data-star.dev looks really cool.

2025-06-03

@skillstopractice

There was django-sockpuppet (Hotwire + Channels + Stimulus)-ish, but itโ€™s been abandoned.

Closest active equivalents:

django-htmx and Django Unicorn.

They're not exactly Hotwire, but close.

- github.com/adamchainz/django-htmx

- django-unicorn.com

2025-05-25

@zmanguy it was a really cool thing to discover.

2025-05-25

And another reason to read open source code:

I was scrolling here when I saw a bug list for lobste.rs; one issue mentioned gzip_static.

That reminded me I hadnโ€™t set it on httpscout.io.

I wrote a short post showing the performance difference with and without it:

shey.ca/2025/05/24/serving-ass

shey boosted:
Peter Bhat Harkinspushcx@ruby.social
2025-05-24

I should mention occasionally that Lobsters is an open source Rails app seeking more contributors. I've tagged a whole lot of features, bugs, performance improvements, and refactorings that would make a good first issue: github.com/lobsters/lobsters/i

2025-05-23

One of the best ways to get better at Rails (and Ruby) is to read more code

Today I read some code that had some impressive chaining and some Ruby I've never seen in the wild -- the "then" method.

github.com/docusealco/docuseal

2025-05-18

@biow0lf ๐Ÿ™‹, older generation framework with ubuntu 22.04

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst