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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 20/09/2026

Rails World 2026, here I come! Will be my first time attending a conference in the US 👀

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 13/12/2025

Looking forward to seeing sibling-index() & sibling-count() supported in more browsers 🙌

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 14/09/2025

That’s the second stop of the #rubytriathlon over. @friendlyrb.com was amazing, such a welcoming and inclusive conference that lives up to its name. Looking forward to @euruko.org this week!

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 06/09/2025

Had such a great time at Rails World! Great to spend time with friends and so many great announcements for RoR. Back on the rails again now though for stop 2 @friendlyrb.com next week.

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 06/09/2025

This is amazing. Absolutely huge thanks to @marcoroth.dev 🙏

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 02/09/2025

Time to go! 3 weeks of travel and conferences as part of the #RubyTriathlon with much of it on rails 🚂

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 05/08/2025

Looking forward to doing this next month! I should probably figure out how I’m travelling between them all though 😅

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 05/03/2025

Ticket has been acquired! Looking forward to this! Just need to secure tickets to Rails World, and EuRuKo to partake in the www.rubytriathlon.com 👀

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 10/01/2025

Occasionally I find myself reflecting on the Principles behind the Agile Manifesto - and it always surprises me just how much they've formed a foundational basis for my own product/software development philosophies that continue to provide value. Here's a couple that I find particularly of note: 🧵

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 10/12/2024

Status enums are a slippery slope At some point you’ll want to know when something reached a certain status, or you’ll have some combination of statuses that have some special meaning, and it spawns complexity Nullable dates work much better. If you must have a status, consider a status model

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 04/12/2024

Been having fun with #AdventOfCode so far. Thought I'd share some of my solutions, so here's day 4: I've been trying to incorporate and learn about some lesser used Ruby methods, today's was repeated_permutation to generate all the different directions the search should move in.

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 29/11/2024

Tailscale really is a joy to use. The airfield I help operate runs some software that uploads weather data to our website, but it’s old and only supports insecure FTP for uploads. No issue – just run an FTP server in Docker and bind it to a private ip through Tailscale.

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 27/11/2024

Very excited about the direction Tailwind is heading with v4, specifically the CSS-first stuff, and modern CSS features. It's a shame it'll always require a build step but at least it's minimal with their cli/standalone builder. tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwin...

tailwindcss.com

Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1 - Tailwind CSS

After a long alpha period, we're excited to release the first public beta of Tailwind CSS v4.0.

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 20/11/2024

This is cool. CSS anchor positioning is something I've been looking forward to being able to use for a long time. The web is becoming so much less reliant on JS for many interactions and I am so here for it.

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 08/11/2024

Here’s how I write commit messages (even if no one else will see them): Use imperative mood. Use sentence case. Explain purpose of change. Use body if more complex change. Start with an emoji: gitmoji.dev. Anyone unfamiliar with the code (likely my future self) can use them to understand it.

gitmoji.dev

gitmoji

An emoji guide for your commit messages.

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 05/11/2024

I was amazed the other day at how easy it is to connect to the “firehose” of Bluesky and just see every interaction in real-time. With just one gem, and several lines of code. 🤯 github.com/mackuba/skyf...

github.com

GitHub - mackuba/skyfall: A Ruby gem for streaming data from the Bluesky/AtProto firehose

A Ruby gem for streaming data from the Bluesky/AtProto firehose - mackuba/skyfall

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 03/11/2024

Sometime in the early 2000s I came across Active Worlds, a kind of 3D version of the internet where you could chat, build and travel. It had a registry of 3D objects and used simple scripting to set define texture, text, picture, colour, interaction, animation. It was a gateway to all kinds of dev.

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 03/11/2024

It would be nice if when you joined a starter pack on here it had the option of requesting to join it. I imagine it’s a bit of a chore to keep on top of right now. Maybe could evolve into some community grouping feature of sorts. Especially when combined with feeds.

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 01/11/2024

What version managers are people using these days? I'm using asdf but I keep seeing mise mise.jdx.dev pop up. Wondering if it's worth the switch. 🤔

mise.jdx.dev

Home | mise-en-place

mise-en-place documentation

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Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com · 30/10/2024

I really like the data portability aspect of At Protocol. Excited to see how it develops. One major thing I think is potentially missing right now is access control. How can I restrict which apps and/or users can see my data?

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