Braden Douglass
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Braden Douglass
@braidn.bsky.social
Vimmer, API nerd, keyboard and, analog watch enthusiast and esteemed author of http://cloudbacon.com. Nice developer evangelist and long time journeyman programmer.

Currently building tools for payment rails and attempting to make Ruby a nicer space.
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Sorry but I had to do it 😂
October 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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So cool to see "High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails" listed on the official PostgreSQL books wiki page.

Thank you to @clairegiordano.bsky.social for the encouragement and help making that happen.

Check it out 👉
www.postgresql.org/docs/books/
PostgreSQL: Books
www.postgresql.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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It's finally here. Zed is available on Windows.

Built from scratch, and rendering at 1 million pixels/millisecond.

Download it today 👇
October 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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it's happening! "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is coming out tomorrow!

here's the table of contents:
June 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I can’t wait for this! And the people I’ll be sharing the space with 🤩 I’m super lucky. I hope I can work on shading and multi-tenancy stuff mostly, but I’ll be happy to pair on anything 💪🏻💪🏻
We'll also have the one-and-only @rosa.codes‬, Maintainer of #SolidQueue!
June 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Are you a Senior, Mid-level, or Junior developer who has been meaning to learn or refresh your Rails knowledge?

Read Agile Web Development with Rails 8 along with a book club!

www.xoruby.com/blog/agile-w...
Agile Web Development with Rails 8 Book Club
During the POODR Readalong Travis Spangle (LinkedIn) and Jim Remsik (LinkedIn) had a chance to catch-up. Travis has experience running book clubs and was looking forward to reading Agile Web Developme...
www.xoruby.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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This is wild! Typescript is about to get 10x faster.

We sat down with Anders Hejlsberg and Daniel Rosenwasser to talk details. Find out why they chose Go lang for this and how it enabled them to make TS 10x.

Typescript Just Got 10x Faster
youtu.be/ZlGza4oIleY

@typescriptlang.org
Typescript Just Got 10x Faster
YouTube video by Syntax
youtu.be
March 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
As someone who is miles away from a fashionista, I want nothing to do but avoid whatever drivel is created by someone who likes ‘pleated pants’ 🙄 apple.news/AWvNF8lQWR_6...
The Ultimate Men’s Playbook of Style Dos and Absolutely Don’ts — The Wall Street Journal
What’s a quietly stylish status watch—or a cool outfit for older guys? Which date-night shoes are so ugly they should be penalized? A guide for men.
apple.news
March 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Been sitting on this for way too long, but here's the follow up blog post about method lookup in Ruby and how that interacts with singleton classes:

noelrappin.com/blog/2025/03...

Email incoming for those of you that subscribe...
Better Know A Ruby Thing: Method Lookup – Noel Rappin Writes Here
I just write here
noelrappin.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Has something changed recently with the schema definition for #atproto and the firehose? I'm getting a trailing `n` on the sequence which is causing validation errors.

I'll just throw this into the wild and see what happens. #FeedGenerator #atproto #development #typescript
February 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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* For logistical reasons (and to support the typescript and the react part of the book), it doesn't use import maps in the main part of the book (it does cover them in an appendix).

If I were to do it again, I'd start with importmaps, and not use TypeScript for the Stimulus controllers...
January 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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JavaScript is an ever-evolving language, and it has some super helpful newer features. To help you learn how they work, Joan wrote this guide. She explains how you can use findLast, toReversed, toSorted and others to write better, cleaner code.
https://buff.ly/4gL7H8N
January 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Some wonderful folks decided to index every Ruby conference talk 🤯

https://www.rubyvideo.dev
January 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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swift = hipster ocaml
rust = systems ocaml
elm = baby ocaml
sml = boomer ocaml
f# = enterprise ocaml
rescript = web ocaml
kotlin = jvm ocaml
coq = nerd ocaml
gleam = shiny ocaml
scala = drama ocaml
haskell = lazy ocaml

just learn ocaml already
November 10, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Is anyone bundling up #javascript build artifacts for a #rubyonrails application? Success rate?

We have an older sprockets based pipeline and want to separate #webcomponents because they need to be used on mobile SDKs and the main app
November 16, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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This is the UI kit for Rails I've been working on. It's still early but already usable if you don't mind living on the edge – Nitro kit!
nitrokit.dev
nitrokit.dev
November 13, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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If you are looking for #Rubyand #Railscontent listen to Confreaks published last week the videos from Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7tQUdRKcybTVAqwUME6Jafmyx6o5CUg
November 13, 2024 at 11:28 AM