Hey everyone! Quick question for the Ruby folks here — what’s your IDE or editor of choice for day-to-day Ruby/Rails work? Do you swear by RubyMine? Live inside VS Code with a handful of extensions? Or are you one of the brave souls still hacking a...

Hey everyone! Quick question for the Ruby folks here — what’s your IDE or editor of choice for day-to-day Ruby/Rails work? Do you swear by RubyMine? Live inside VS Code with a handful of extensions? Or are you one of the brave souls still hacking a...

I’ve been through a long parade of editors and IDEs over the years, and each phase almost feels like a snapshot of where I was as a developer at the time. Back at university the big names were NetBeans and Eclipse—heavy, clunky, but they got the job ...

Hey all! I wanted to share my journey of moving from Unity to Godot, rebuilding my game from scratch, and what I learned along the way. A few years back, I developed "No Escape?!", originally built in Unity as a fast-paced infinite runner inspired...

After having followed the various conventions defined by our Githttps://brazenbraden.com/posts/gitconventions/ and GitHubhttps://brazenbraden.com/posts/githubprocess/ processes, we should now be in a good place to take the code that has been produced...

Let's name things the right way > TL;DR: We need to stop the bugs According to Wikipedia: > A software bug is an error, flaw or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unin...

Over the last decade or so, I have had the opportunity to experiment with various git usage strategies and styles. Ranging from branch names, to pull request descriptions, a lot of time has been spent thinking about how to best describe our work to c...

Introduction Software is a critical part of the modern world and it needs people to design, develop, test and maintain it. Due to the nature of life, there are often turnovers on a company's payroll. Employees retire, die or leave their role for oth...

Feature flags are a way of life when developing software. They let you deploy code to production without immediately exposing it to users — like flipping a switch without blowing the fuse. In practice, they're used to: Ship features incrementally ...

Sidekiqhttps://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq is pretty much the go-to solution for enqueuing jobs for background processing when working on a Ruby-based project. It's simple to implement, has a clear DSL, and is well-supported by common testing framewor...

Why I Switched from VSCode to Neovim Developers switch their code editors for all kinds of reasons. In my case, the journey started with VSCode, but even then, I was already using Vim keybindings. I had been familiar with Vim for some time, and the...

Now that we had a deployable app, I set up a staging server using my new favourite provider, Hetznerhttps://www.hetzner.com/ not a sponsor, lol, spun it up, and witnessed a “fully functional” skeleton of JuggleBee. Stage 1 of the migration plan was c...