Travis Turner

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Vibe coding in style.md
Vibe coding in style.md
December 4, 2025
Unparser: real life lessons migrating Ruby tools from Parser to Prism
Unparser: real life lessons migrating Ruby tools from Parser to Prism
November 25, 2025
Vibecoding tools can learn from design UX and win over everyone
Vibecoding tools can learn from design UX and win over everyone
November 19, 2025
Payment form best coding practices that don't drop sales
Payment form best coding practices that don't drop sales
November 10, 2025
Why startups choose React (and when you shouldn't)
Why startups choose React (and when you shouldn't)
October 29, 2025
Migrating Whop from PostgreSQL to PlanetScale MySQL with 0 downtime
Migrating Whop from PostgreSQL to PlanetScale MySQL with 0 downtime
October 28, 2025
Why we're excited about the SF Ruby conference
Why we're excited about the SF Ruby conference
October 22, 2025
Debug AI fast with this open source library to visualize agent traces
Debug AI fast with this open source library to visualize agent traces
October 15, 2025
How to add fast, client-side search to Astro static sites
How to add fast, client-side search to Astro static sites
October 8, 2025
Martian Summer: blog, talks, open source, and ready for SFRuby in Nov
Martian Summer: blog, talks, open source, and ready for SFRuby in Nov
October 7, 2025
Contract shock therapy: the way to API-first documentation bliss
Contract shock therapy: the way to API-first documentation bliss
October 1, 2025
How to detect Safari and iOS versions with ease in 2025
How to detect Safari and iOS versions with ease in 2025
September 30, 2025
Flaky tests, be gone: long-lasting relief for chronic CI retry irritation!
Flaky tests, be gone: long-lasting relief for chronic CI retry irritation!
September 23, 2025
OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL
OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL
September 17, 2025
Baking with Rails at scale: recipes in Ruby, cookware from Go, C, and Rust
Baking with Rails at scale: recipes in Ruby, cookware from Go, C, and Rust
September 15, 2025
Exploring Active Agent, or can we build AI features the Rails way?
Exploring Active Agent, or can we build AI features the Rails way?
September 10, 2025
The Whop chop: how we cut a Rails test suite and CI time in half
The Whop chop: how we cut a Rails test suite and CI time in half
September 3, 2025
The scenic route: lessons building an IntelliJ IDEA plugin for Luau
The scenic route: lessons building an IntelliJ IDEA plugin for Luau
August 26, 2025
Circuit breakers and Ruby in 2025: don't break your launch
Circuit breakers and Ruby in 2025: don't break your launch
August 13, 2025
Redprints CFP: an open source CFP management app built with Rails + Inertia.js
Redprints CFP: an open source CFP management app built with Rails + Inertia.js
August 6, 2025
What we learned from creating PostCSS
What we learned from creating PostCSS
August 5, 2025
Simplicity, vanished?! Solving the mystery with Inertia.js + Rails
Simplicity, vanished?! Solving the mystery with Inertia.js + Rails
July 29, 2025
API contracts and everything I wish I knew: a frontend survival guide
API contracts and everything I wish I knew: a frontend survival guide
July 23, 2025
We studied 100 dev tool landing pages—here’s what really works in 2025
We studied 100 dev tool landing pages—here’s what really works in 2025
July 8, 2025
The early validation lesson: designing Quotient’s prompt sandbox
The early validation lesson: designing Quotient’s prompt sandbox
July 2, 2025
The Hotwire-Rails summit, or interactive multi-step forms at peak UX
The Hotwire-Rails summit, or interactive multi-step forms at peak UX
June 24, 2025
How to make an AI clone of your CEO for the world's biggest hackathon
How to make an AI clone of your CEO for the world's biggest hackathon
June 23, 2025
Weeks → days: a case for expert-led, AI-driven design engineering
Weeks → days: a case for expert-led, AI-driven design engineering
June 17, 2025
How AI startups use changelogs to win developer trust
How AI startups use changelogs to win developer trust
June 4, 2025
Exploring the OKLCH ecosystem and its tools
Exploring the OKLCH ecosystem and its tools
May 28, 2025
How Recraft's lean team is challenging the AI image generation giants
How Recraft's lean team is challenging the AI image generation giants
May 20, 2025
Demo app design for Medplum, open source healthcare developer platform
Demo app design for Medplum, open source healthcare developer platform
May 15, 2025
GMI Cloud meets Webflow and speeds ahead in the AI compute race
GMI Cloud meets Webflow and speeds ahead in the AI compute race
April 30, 2025
UI for Quotient AI: the developer tool for prompt engineers
UI for Quotient AI: the developer tool for prompt engineers
April 23, 2025
Making desktop apps with revved-up potential: Rust + Tauri + sidecar
Making desktop apps with revved-up potential: Rust + Tauri + sidecar
April 22, 2025
Let there be docs! Generating an OpenAPI schema across the Rails stack
Let there be docs! Generating an OpenAPI schema across the Rails stack
April 8, 2025
Attention: An Important Brand Update From The Evil Martians Blog
Attention: An Important Brand Update From The Evil Martians Blog
April 1, 2025
Hey developer tool teams, don’t copy these copywriting clichés!
Hey developer tool teams, don’t copy these copywriting clichés!
March 26, 2025
Simple Declarative Presence for Hotwire apps with AnyCable
Simple Declarative Presence for Hotwire apps with AnyCable
March 18, 2025
PostCSS creator shares how to make your open source popular
PostCSS creator shares how to make your open source popular
March 12, 2025
How to kill conversions on your developer tool's landing page
How to kill conversions on your developer tool's landing page
March 5, 2025
How Doximity brought real-time Go power to their Rails app
How Doximity brought real-time Go power to their Rails app
February 25, 2025
Hire better, 10X faster: how we screen 50 engineers weekly with no HR
Hire better, 10X faster: how we screen 50 engineers weekly with no HR
February 19, 2025
Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly: a guide to full-stack in‑browser action
Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly: a guide to full-stack in‑browser action
February 18, 2025
3 smart ways to highlight features for landing pages or launch weeks
3 smart ways to highlight features for landing pages or launch weeks
January 28, 2025
Martian Kubernetes Kit: running apps—and running them well
Martian Kubernetes Kit: running apps—and running them well
January 22, 2025
Devs in mind 2025: how to design interfaces for developer tools
Devs in mind 2025: how to design interfaces for developer tools
January 14, 2025
The 16 most active developer tool investors and VCs going into 2025
The 16 most active developer tool investors and VCs going into 2025
January 7, 2025
Railsmas on Mars: 12 Days of Mandatory Developer Joy and Challenge
Railsmas on Mars: 12 Days of Mandatory Developer Joy and Challenge
December 31, 2024
Don't just slap on a chatbot: building AI that works before you ask
Don't just slap on a chatbot: building AI that works before you ask
December 30, 2024
Ease and epiphany: 4 ways to stop misguided dev tools user onboarding
Ease and epiphany: 4 ways to stop misguided dev tools user onboarding
December 17, 2024
Keeping Rails cool: the modern frontend toolkit
Keeping Rails cool: the modern frontend toolkit
December 10, 2024
bolt.new from StackBlitz: how they surfed the AI wave—with no wipeouts
bolt.new from StackBlitz: how they surfed the AI wave—with no wipeouts
December 2, 2024
Founders, if you want A+ startup success, do the homework first!
Founders, if you want A+ startup success, do the homework first!
November 19, 2024
Hey, AnyCable speaking! Needing help with a Twilio-OpenAI connection?
Hey, AnyCable speaking! Needing help with a Twilio-OpenAI connection?
November 12, 2024
How to do launch weeks for developer tools, startups, and small teams
How to do launch weeks for developer tools, startups, and small teams
November 5, 2024
Woah, opacity! A full guide to this badass hero of efficient UI design
Woah, opacity! A full guide to this badass hero of efficient UI design
October 29, 2024
A taste of Go code generator magic: a quick guide to getting started
A taste of Go code generator magic: a quick guide to getting started
October 15, 2024
Designing Tegon: a signature vision for the AI-driven issue tracker
Designing Tegon: a signature vision for the AI-driven issue tracker
September 25, 2024
Creating a winning sales flow with authentic writing from engineers
Creating a winning sales flow with authentic writing from engineers
September 18, 2024
A letter to founders: join the local-first movement!
A letter to founders: join the local-first movement!
September 10, 2024
How to quickly (and weightlessly) convert Chrome extensions to Safari
How to quickly (and weightlessly) convert Chrome extensions to Safari
August 28, 2024
Dev tools AI‑fication 101: lessons from Martian robots
Dev tools AI‑fication 101: lessons from Martian robots
August 20, 2024
Railing against time: tools and techniques that got us 5X faster tests
Railing against time: tools and techniques that got us 5X faster tests
August 14, 2024
TestProf III: guided and automated Ruby test profiling
TestProf III: guided and automated Ruby test profiling
August 13, 2024
The SDK Imperative: why developer tools live or die by their SDKs
The SDK Imperative: why developer tools live or die by their SDKs
August 10, 2024
Want to make a great developer tool UI? Follow this fundamental rule!
Want to make a great developer tool UI? Follow this fundamental rule!
August 5, 2024
git push --force and how to deal with it
git push --force and how to deal with it
July 30, 2024
Engineering connections: a conference talk primer for humans
Engineering connections: a conference talk primer for humans
July 29, 2024
Flying free: a tale of partitioning with canaries in PostgreSQL
Flying free: a tale of partitioning with canaries in PostgreSQL
July 23, 2024
How to make complex Chrome extensions: a zero gravity guide
How to make complex Chrome extensions: a zero gravity guide
July 16, 2024
Startups on Rails in 2024: my keynote at RailsConf
Startups on Rails in 2024: my keynote at RailsConf
July 15, 2024
Connection avalanche safety tips and prepping for real-time applications
Connection avalanche safety tips and prepping for real-time applications
July 9, 2024
Recapping the first Local‑First conference in 15 minutes
Recapping the first Local‑First conference in 15 minutes
July 8, 2024
Realtime diagnostic logging, or how to really spy on your Go web apps
Realtime diagnostic logging, or how to really spy on your Go web apps
July 2, 2024
Beyond monospace: the search for the perfect coding font
Beyond monospace: the search for the perfect coding font
June 25, 2024
Inertia.js in Rails: a new era of effortless integration
Inertia.js in Rails: a new era of effortless integration
June 18, 2024
The art of Turbo Mount: Hotwire meets modern JS frameworks
The art of Turbo Mount: Hotwire meets modern JS frameworks
June 11, 2024
The lion's den: NestJS and authentication with AWS Cognito
The lion's den: NestJS and authentication with AWS Cognito
June 10, 2024
Gemfile of dreams: the libraries we use to build Rails apps
Gemfile of dreams: the libraries we use to build Rails apps
May 28, 2024
How does your chatbot UX size up? The 5 laws of ChatRobotics
How does your chatbot UX size up? The 5 laws of ChatRobotics
May 22, 2024
Keep it together: 5 essential design patterns for dev tool UIs
Keep it together: 5 essential design patterns for dev tool UIs
May 7, 2024
Let's have more tech meetups! A quick-start guide to holding your own
Let's have more tech meetups! A quick-start guide to holding your own
April 30, 2024
Next-level docs with Next.js: Teleport’s new customer acquisition channel
Next-level docs with Next.js: Teleport’s new customer acquisition channel
April 24, 2024
How to manifest streamlined authentication: AWS Cognito in a React app
How to manifest streamlined authentication: AWS Cognito in a React app
April 22, 2024
CLI UX best practices: 3 patterns for improving progress displays
CLI UX best practices: 3 patterns for improving progress displays
April 15, 2024
Let there be docs! A documentation-first approach to Rails API development
Let there be docs! A documentation-first approach to Rails API development
April 9, 2024
MVPs, prototypes, results: how to win with a Martian Design Sprint
MVPs, prototypes, results: how to win with a Martian Design Sprint
April 8, 2024
Kamal: hot deployment tool to watch—or a total game changer?
Kamal: hot deployment tool to watch—or a total game changer?
April 2, 2024
Beyond bars and lines: 7 cool ways to visualize data in your dev tool
Beyond bars and lines: 7 cool ways to visualize data in your dev tool
March 26, 2024
Why should developers write? 3 reasons and 3 common blocks
Why should developers write? 3 reasons and 3 common blocks
March 20, 2024
Martian Kubernetes Kit: unboxing our toolkit's technical secrets
Martian Kubernetes Kit: unboxing our toolkit's technical secrets
March 12, 2024
How to make complex serverless file processing a piece of cake
How to make complex serverless file processing a piece of cake
March 6, 2024
The complete guide to multi-tenant SaaS, part 1: collaboration
The complete guide to multi-tenant SaaS, part 1: collaboration
February 28, 2024
“Fair” multi-tenant prioritization of Sidekiq jobs—and our gem for it!
“Fair” multi-tenant prioritization of Sidekiq jobs—and our gem for it!
February 14, 2024
First steps with ruby.wasm: or how we built Ruby Next Playground
First steps with ruby.wasm: or how we built Ruby Next Playground
February 6, 2024
Hiring a product designer: 1 hard skill and 3 soft skills to look for
Hiring a product designer: 1 hard skill and 3 soft skills to look for
January 30, 2024
Value pricing for Dev Tools: a strategy beneficial for both sides
Value pricing for Dev Tools: a strategy beneficial for both sides
January 24, 2024
ViewComponent in the Wild III: TailwindCSS classes & HTML attributes
ViewComponent in the Wild III: TailwindCSS classes & HTML attributes
January 23, 2024
5 cool (and surprising) ways to configure Lefthook for automation joy
5 cool (and surprising) ways to configure Lefthook for automation joy
January 18, 2024
How to cultivate capital: 6 tips from developer tools founders and VCs
How to cultivate capital: 6 tips from developer tools founders and VCs
January 10, 2024
UX research for dev tools must not be neglected: our quick-start guide
UX research for dev tools must not be neglected: our quick-start guide
December 27, 2023
Martian Kubernetes Kit: a smooth-sailing toolkit from our SRE team
Martian Kubernetes Kit: a smooth-sailing toolkit from our SRE team
December 20, 2023
Figma plugin magic tricks: mixing colors with SVG and Canvas API
Figma plugin magic tricks: mixing colors with SVG and Canvas API
December 12, 2023
Pen, paper, IDE: a DevTool Founder’s early-stage product design guide
Pen, paper, IDE: a DevTool Founder’s early-stage product design guide
December 4, 2023
Care beyond code: 7 best design practices for frontend developers
Care beyond code: 7 best design practices for frontend developers
November 28, 2023
Extremely open and incredibly close: should you go open source?
Extremely open and incredibly close: should you go open source?
November 20, 2023
Freezolite: the magic gem for keeping Ruby literals safely frozen
Freezolite: the magic gem for keeping Ruby literals safely frozen
November 14, 2023
Figma plugin API: diving into advanced algorithms & data structures
Figma plugin API: diving into advanced algorithms & data structures
November 13, 2023
DIY PaaS: serverless real-time with one command
DIY PaaS: serverless real-time with one command
November 8, 2023
Midjourney vs. human illustrators II: more Martians join the battle!
Midjourney vs. human illustrators II: more Martians join the battle!
November 6, 2023
Better dynamic themes in Tailwind with OKLCH color magic
Better dynamic themes in Tailwind with OKLCH color magic
October 31, 2023
The future of full-stack Rails II: Turbo View Transitions
The future of full-stack Rails II: Turbo View Transitions
October 23, 2023
The future of full-stack Rails: Turbo Morph Drive
The future of full-stack Rails: Turbo Morph Drive
October 16, 2023
5 best practices for preventing chaos in Tailwind CSS
5 best practices for preventing chaos in Tailwind CSS
October 10, 2023
It’s dangerous to go alone: take our guide to the “IDEAL” HTTP client!
It’s dangerous to go alone: take our guide to the “IDEAL” HTTP client!
September 12, 2023
It deserved its own tome: Layered Design and the Extended Rails Way
It deserved its own tome: Layered Design and the Extended Rails Way
August 29, 2023
Successful balance: gracefully and tactfully raising a dev tool price
Successful balance: gracefully and tactfully raising a dev tool price
August 23, 2023
How to make next-level Figma plugins: auth, routing, storage, and more
How to make next-level Figma plugins: auth, routing, storage, and more
August 22, 2023
Super GitHub Pages: budget frontend staging, with Storybook and more
Super GitHub Pages: budget frontend staging, with Storybook and more
August 4, 2023
imgproxy goes solo: unveiling a bold future for this new company
imgproxy goes solo: unveiling a bold future for this new company
July 20, 2023
Enter AnyCable v1.4: reliable real-time features for apps of any size
Enter AnyCable v1.4: reliable real-time features for apps of any size
July 14, 2023
How a year-long LeetCode habit upped my professional game
How a year-long LeetCode habit upped my professional game
July 5, 2023
“AI” marks the spot: a quick AI treasure map for businesses
“AI” marks the spot: a quick AI treasure map for businesses
June 28, 2023
Before your next frontend pull request, use this checklist
Before your next frontend pull request, use this checklist
June 7, 2023
How to turn an open source project into a profitable business
How to turn an open source project into a profitable business
May 31, 2023
From Ruby to Crystal? Writing and distributing a CLI tool
From Ruby to Crystal? Writing and distributing a CLI tool
May 16, 2023
Icon transcendence: customizing icons to complement fonts
Icon transcendence: customizing icons to complement fonts
May 3, 2023
Go integration testing with courage and coverage
Go integration testing with courage and coverage
April 19, 2023
Don’t wait, let’s use the browser Contact Picker API now
Don’t wait, let’s use the browser Contact Picker API now
April 13, 2023
Ruby Bytes, or generating standalone generators
Ruby Bytes, or generating standalone generators
April 4, 2023
AnyCable off Rails: connecting Twilio streams with Hanami
AnyCable off Rails: connecting Twilio streams with Hanami
March 21, 2023
Cool frontend arts of local-first: storage, sync, conflicts
Cool frontend arts of local-first: storage, sync, conflicts
March 15, 2023
“Design first, then build”: let’s bury this myth forevermore
“Design first, then build”: let’s bury this myth forevermore
March 10, 2023
How to avoid tricky async state manager pitfalls in React
How to avoid tricky async state manager pitfalls in React
February 21, 2023
OK, OKLCH: a color picker made to help think perceptively
OK, OKLCH: a color picker made to help think perceptively
February 7, 2023
How to build a better React map with Pigeon Maps and Mapbox
How to build a better React map with Pigeon Maps and Mapbox
January 24, 2023
Decentralized app design: first aid for common dApp UI pains
Decentralized app design: first aid for common dApp UI pains
December 19, 2022
Midjourney vs. human illustrators: has AI already won?
Midjourney vs. human illustrators: has AI already won?
December 13, 2022
Blend to my will! Fonts on cylinder objects in Blender
Blend to my will! Fonts on cylinder objects in Blender
December 5, 2022
Realtime text analysis with Word Tagger: recipe reader, part 2
Realtime text analysis with Word Tagger: recipe reader, part 2
November 22, 2022
One does not simply design: designers as product owners
One does not simply design: designers as product owners
November 17, 2022
Web Summit 2022: what you missed and how to be ready for next year
Web Summit 2022: what you missed and how to be ready for next year
November 14, 2022
ViewComponent in the Wild II: supercharging your components
ViewComponent in the Wild II: supercharging your components
October 18, 2022
ViewComponent in the Wild I: building modern Rails frontends
ViewComponent in the Wild I: building modern Rails frontends
October 12, 2022
RubyKaigi 2022: a report from an Evil Martian in Japan
RubyKaigi 2022: a report from an Evil Martian in Japan
October 3, 2022
WebSocket Director: scenario-based integration tests for realtime apps
WebSocket Director: scenario-based integration tests for realtime apps
September 20, 2022
The journey from CircleCI to GitHub Actions
The journey from CircleCI to GitHub Actions
September 15, 2022
5 signs your project needs a design system
5 signs your project needs a design system
September 8, 2022
Martians unveiled: infusing a new site with extraterrestrial tech and soul
Martians unveiled: infusing a new site with extraterrestrial tech and soul
September 5, 2022
The sword is yours: transferring projects to another team unscathed
The sword is yours: transferring projects to another team unscathed
August 19, 2022
Lefthook: refactoring the Git Hooks automation tool back into shape
Lefthook: refactoring the Git Hooks automation tool back into shape
August 18, 2022
Taking off the Heroku training wheels: the Rails preflight checklist
Taking off the Heroku training wheels: the Rails preflight checklist
August 9, 2022
Phone inputs and you: the designer's essential UI guide
Phone inputs and you: the designer's essential UI guide
August 3, 2022
And they lived happily ever after… the M&A
And they lived happily ever after… the M&A
July 27, 2022
Down the caching‑hole: adventures in 'HTTP caching and Faraday' land
Down the caching‑hole: adventures in 'HTTP caching and Faraday' land
July 15, 2022
The joy of Variable Fonts: getting started on the Frontend
The joy of Variable Fonts: getting started on the Frontend
July 6, 2022
How to make absolutely any app look like a macOS app
How to make absolutely any app look like a macOS app
June 16, 2022
How to use P3 colors with SVGs
How to use P3 colors with SVGs
May 25, 2022
Soft deletion with PostgreSQL: but with logic on the database!
Soft deletion with PostgreSQL: but with logic on the database!
May 16, 2022
Realtime text analysis with Word Tagger: pro computer vision, part 1
Realtime text analysis with Word Tagger: pro computer vision, part 1
April 27, 2022
A slice of life: table partitioning in PostgreSQL databases
A slice of life: table partitioning in PostgreSQL databases
April 12, 2022
Variable fonts in real life: how to use and love them
Variable fonts in real life: how to use and love them
March 24, 2022
Object Detection with Create ML: training and demo app
Object Detection with Create ML: training and demo app
February 17, 2022
Object Detection with Create ML: images and dataset
Object Detection with Create ML: images and dataset
February 9, 2022
Our slice of the metaverse: 7 key AR features for iOS devs
Our slice of the metaverse: 7 key AR features for iOS devs
January 5, 2022
AI and the auteur: using neural networks as artistic tools
AI and the auteur: using neural networks as artistic tools
December 21, 2021
Kubing Rails: stressless Kubernetes deployments with Kuby
Kubing Rails: stressless Kubernetes deployments with Kuby
November 30, 2021
The Martian Design Sprint: starting and running projects faster
The Martian Design Sprint: starting and running projects faster
November 24, 2021
TimescaleDB: integrating time-series data with Ruby on Rails
TimescaleDB: integrating time-series data with Ruby on Rails
November 16, 2021
A no-go fantasy: writing Go in Ruby with Ruby Next
A no-go fantasy: writing Go in Ruby with Ruby Next
November 9, 2021
Pro becomes smart: imgproxy Pro engages machine learning
Pro becomes smart: imgproxy Pro engages machine learning
October 5, 2021

Past events

Narrative Reflections: Transmuting Ruby Code into Storytelling Gold
By Travis Turner
Narrative Reflections: Transmuting Ruby Code into Storytelling Gold
May 30–31, 2024Blue Ridge Ruby
Bites and Bytes: meetup for developers in Tbilisi
By Pasha Kalashnikov, Nina Torgunakova and Travis Turner
Bites and Bytes: meetup for developers in Tbilisi
Mar 30, 2023Bites and Bytes

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