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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

notice how distorted my face looks after i finish the inception recording

Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Introducing gem "testimonials" - inhouse testimonial collection engine & public wall of love API. The best SOCIAL PROOF engine, for FREE inside your Rails app! show your appreciation & star the gem now: github.com/yshmarov/tes... or even better: bundle add testimonials #rubyonrails

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

rails engine ideas: 1. 🈳 i18n proofreading ✅ 2. 🐞 let users submit ideas / bugs ✅ 3. ⭐let users submit testimonials / wall of love ❓ 4. 💬let users talk to support agents (built-in Intercom) ❓ any other ideas? any other software that can be a mountable feature?

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There are many SaaS tools that let users report bugs or submit feature requests. Did you know there was a Rails gem for this? `bundle add feedback-engine` & start receiving bug reports now: github.com/yshmarov/fee...

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

does telebugs catch only backend errors, or js also?

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

AI-translated your Rails app? Great. Now let users catch what it missed. Gem "i18n-feedback" lets a proofreader click any string in the running app and suggest a fix. Every suggestion is saved in the db. Devs / AI can evaluate and apply suggestions. The gem: github.com/yshmarov/i18...

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"Join us for a free live class." is one of my favorite things on Basecamps refreshed website. Does this actually help b2b conversions?

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

go the extra mile, and do what exactly?

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

That's what was holding me back before. But it's been fine so far.!

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I'm building ethicsportal.eu/subprocessors/, and it requires 100% EU subprocessors. Storage? 🚫 R2 🚫 S3 ✅ Hetzner 🇩🇪 Emails? 🚫 SES 🚫 Postmark ✅ Mailjet 🇫🇷 At the moment only the marketing website is on Cloudflare

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

thats still a PaaS. with AI, you don’t need paas for your devopa any more

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Finally, I moved my last project from Heroku to Kamal+Hetzner. Over 11 years I paid $3970 for Heroku hobby projects Lately running ANY experiment app cost me ~$24/mo (webserver,postgres,worker). Now I'll be paying ~$5/mo per project for much more compute. More power. More freedom. More projects!

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

to store photos? or to host websites?

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Is Orange FR doing a Collab with Duolingo for Captcha? wtf?

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I like how your logo has a slight 3d effect in your native app

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

what’s the best use for an M2 with a broken screen, touchpad and keyboard?

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Added a post-deploy hook to Kamal in .kamal/hooks/post-deploy Also added cron script on the server that checks system health every 5 minutes and sends alerts if case of abnormalities

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

PDF generation in Rails in 2026? ❌ Grover+Puppeteer ❌ Ferrum ❌ WickedPDF ✅gem Prawn AI is great at generating PDF with Prawn.

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

where are you hosting your apps now?

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

ask Claude to 1) generate all the files for your repo 2) give you a step-by-step instruction what to do in Hetzner, Github and Docker Hub

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

like a breath of fresh air after PaaS (heroku and similar). full control . and with AI it is easy to manage

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Best 2 hours learning investment I made in a while I 💖 KAMAL I 💖 KAMAL I 💖 KAMAL I 💖 KAMAL I 💖 KAMAL I 💖 KAMAL I 💖 KAMAL

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

- company is focusing on AI, not on git - belongs to MSFT - latest Windows feels vibe coded - moving from Rails to React - long PRs get truncated GitLab stock feels undervalued.

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I bought ScreenFlow 9. Recently I started getting a banner "Keep 9 or upgrade to 10. I had to always annoyingly "skip". Now, it updated itself. And software that I bought once suddenly is a subscription 💩

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Reaching the limit of the $200 Claude plan is hard, but in the last 7 days I really pushed Claude Code desktop a lot

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

English is the new hot coding lanuage...

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

🇺🇦 government too. but unfortunately for Ukraine it is a matter of political balancing and pleasing 🇺🇸 to have support. 🇬🇧 has zero good reason to subjugate itself to 🇺🇸 surveillance software. build your own! 🤣

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I can't imagine EU companies with government contracts using GitHub 2 years from now. It will be private GitLab instances.

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

ok, onw it's researching your work ⏳

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I have great results when asking Claude to review code as popular tech people: "Adam Wathan" gives great advice on CSS & DOM structure "Jason Fried" - on trimming down feature scope "DHH" - not over-engineering, RESTful, naming things

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Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social · 10/02/2026