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• This was a good week for progress on our code! • A couple of tests started flaking on JRuby mid-week. I like to get on top of these pretty...

Hello, and welcome to my new website! My name is Aaron and I have been writing software since I was thirteen years old (twenty-seven years ago). I am a senior software engineer at Credit Ninja and hav...

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• I’m trying to get these weeknotes back on track: aiming for a Monday release at the latest. Happy Monday :) • The biggest thing I got up to this...

Sometimes, it's more important to be good than it is to be nice.

• These weeknotes are pulling into the station a little late, because I’ve been busy starting my new job! I’ve joined the crew at HotDoc, as a manager slash engineer....

“I was hooked, my choice was made.” Week four of our sponsorship drive.

Love Ruby, but looking to expand beyond Rails? Here are my notes on a quick visit to Hanami.

• Feeling a lot better than last week, so I was able to do some more Hanakai work. • Shared our next sponsorship drive post, thanking our silver sponsors, and...

“Reading your code is a larger cost than creating it, so having more organization is a definite benefit.” Week three of our sponsorship drive.

“Reading your code is a larger cost than creating it, so having more organization is a definite benefit.” Week three of our sponsorship drive.

• Been sick as a dog ever since I wrote my last weeknotes, so there’s not a lot to report here except general feelings of uselessness. Good news, though: I’m...

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• Happy first anniversary to my weeknotes! I started these exactly 52 weeks ago, and managed to write on 49 weeks since then. I’ll call that a success! After all...

“In code like in life, healthy relationships should have respectful boundaries.” Week two of our sponsorship drive.

“In code like in life, healthy relationships should have respectful boundaries.” Week two of our sponsorship drive.

• This week I kicked off our Hanakai sponsorship drive for 2026, and shared an exciting new stretch goal — if we can raise another $15k for this year, we’ll...

Why some of us are still bothered about the way we write tests and what the "matcher" concept has to do with it.

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For those who don't know me, I'm autistic. This post is about panic: the kind that locks your body, floods your brain, and makes every solution feel equally impossible.

• I’m almost back to normal weeks again. A few important life things have continued to impose on my ordinary OSS time, but I’ve been pressing forward with as much...

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• Things are slowly getting back into gear after my trip and the last week being mostly for other life matters. Let’s share some code! • I’ve got half of...

• A few weeks ago I joined Jared to record a new episode of his Dead Code podcast, and now it’s out — go have a listen! Jared’s titles never...

• Hanami 3.0 is out! In this writer’s opinion, a release worthy of its new major version: new mailers, i18n, and Minitest, your apps becoming way faster, and much more!...

New mailers, i18n, and Minitest. Your apps faster by default. Our most complete Hanami yet!

• This edition’s a bit late—please grant me an amnesty, as I don’t want to break my streak! So here we’ll focus on last week’s work, and in a few...

Our Hanami 3.0 release candidate is here. Come help us test it.

• I’ve well and truly entered release prep mode. Lots of stuff done this week, and I expect about another week or so until I can get a release candidate...

hi again everyone, we’re back with exciting news. namespaces on gem.coop have been promoted out of beta and into general availability. that means you can use namespaced gems directly from the top-leve...

Our Hanami 3.0 release is coming soon (a release candidate in a matter of weeks), and one of the big new features is a rebuilt hanami-mailer gem. Here I’ll outline how mailers will integrate into Han...

• This week I got the last big piece done before we can make the next Hanami release. Mailers now fully integrate into Hanami apps, with zero necessary boilerplate, just...

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• I finished off Hanami’s streamlined i18n support this week! I had built the core functionality quite a while ago, and thought that adding view helpers would be a cakewalk....