Field notes from two decades of building software and companies.
Harden integrations against flaky third-party APIs with timeouts, retries with backoff, rate limits, interface decoupling, and durable background jobs.
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Solve polymorphic association URL generation and parent lookups in Rails with a reusable resource finder pattern for cleaner, safer model code paths now.
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Add publishable status to Rails models with PostgreSQL enums—migrations, scopes, and safe state transitions for reliable draft-to-published workflows.
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Step-by-step guide to deploy Ruby on Rails 5 on Dokku, a self-hosted Heroku alternative—apps, databases, SSL, zero-downtime deploys, and production tips.
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