Justin Searls

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Programming is inherently difficult, but most innovations heralded by the industry attempt to paper over its complexity, inadvertently making it harder for people to understand how to build and maintain working software. My mission is to identify, explain, and mitigate this phenomenon.

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Agent 002
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Orlando, FL

Reports from the Field

  1. How to tell if AI threatens YOUR job

    Can ChatGPT help do your job? If so, how can you be sure AI won't eventually replace you? Spot whether your job is at risk and what you can do about it.
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    March 14, 2023
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    Justin Searls
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    Industry
    Career

  3. It's Official: the Standard Ruby VS Code extension

    Built with Standard's new language server, our VS Code extension for Standard Ruby provides lightning-fast code formatting and linter diagnostics and takes less than a minute to install and set up
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    February 16, 2023
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    Justin Searls
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    Ruby

  4. Super Standard

    Standard Ruby just got a new superpower: you can now load RuboCop plugins and custom cops in just two lines of YAML configuration
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    January 19, 2023
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    Justin Searls
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    Ruby

  5. Podcast: Don't Sleep on Ruby and Rails

    Using Rails 7 with Turbo, Stimulus, and Tailwind is so productive Justin Searls had to share with the The Changelog folks.
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    January 9, 2023
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    Justin Searls
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    Ruby
    Rails

  6. The Best Kind of Brilliant

    The Ruby community has lost a true luminary this week with the passing of Chris Seaton, staff researcher at Shopify and creator of the impressive and envelope-pushing TruffleRuby implementation. Chris and I probably met two dozen times without having a real conversation, but my friend Aaron Patterson worked with him:
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    December 7, 2022
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    Justin Searls
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    Ruby
    Community

  8. Building passwordless email auth in Rails

    Adding authentication to your Rails app but don't want to store passwords or rely on third-party OAuth? Let's build a passwordless login system that emails users magic links!
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    October 25, 2022
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    Justin Searls
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    Rails

  10. Stateless forms with the Rails Attributes API

    Building a form in Rails that ISN'T driven by an ActiveRecord model? Here's how to use the Attributes API to get all the convenience with none of the complexity.
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    August 30, 2022
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    Justin Searls
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    Rails

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