For the last few years my website has been a Rails app running on Netlify using a library I wrote to turn any Rack app into a static build. It's now super simple to turn a Sinatra app into a static site that's deployed to GitHub Pages on every push benpickles.com/articles/90-i… #ruby

It is the highest honour to headline Ruby Weekly rubyweekly.com/issues/646 💖 @cooperx86

Announcing Operatic, a minimal standard interface to encapsulate your Ruby operations (often referred to as “service objects”) benpickles.com/articles/87-a…

I’ve resurrected Screamshot, a synchronous HTTP screenshot service I first released in 2016(!), and added a few new features - my favourite is support for `prefers-reduced-motion=reduce` benpickles.com/articles/86-t…

Find out how I save 2 minutes for every build on CircleCI by using more robust Gem caching benpickles.com/articles/76-b…

I’ve been using @dependabot for a while — it’s like adding a developer to your team. I’m really impressed so I wrote about why benpickles.com/articles/74-d…

I only recently discovered RSpec’s --next-failure feature, here's how to use it: benpickles.com/articles/69-r…

Umm. I just walked in on my cat. In the bathroom. Sitting in the sink.

I solemnly swear that my house will never run out of Nesquik banana milkshake powder

I wrote `v` to help with my common wants when starting Vim, here are the two things it does benpickles.com/articles/67-v…

son: ”dad i saw a photo of when you were young and had no beard, you looked weird!" <walks off> me: 😐 🤔 theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_diff…

git commit -am"Tomorrow is a day away."

Man behind me on the train sounds exactly like @ProfBrianCox 😍 I don’t want burst the bubble by looking round to check

My journey to a code golf solution and its brush with a few of JavaScript's newer language features benpickles.com/articles/66-t…

BEARD

Person on train: “well at least he’s doing what he said he’d do - which is more than most politicians”

I just described raw broccoli as having a certain ”sweet pea-ness” to it

It has taken me 30 minutes to construct and line this tin!