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Jan 28
The amount of garbage code, and needed retries I am getting is embarrassing. After using Codex, this is a huge step backwards and borderline unusable.
Jan 25
Antigravity is now another dead project by Google.
The upside potential was so good that I recommended everyone switch from Cursor to Antigravity, but it’s unusable now. Honestly, just stick to your own IDE.
Something Google could do is shut down the tools that people don’t actually use much or lower the limits on things like Firebase, Jules, and AI Builder, and instead focus more on this IDE with better limits, at least for paying users.
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18 Sep 2025
MacBook Pro uptime is usually days, but we have had a good 4-month run:
✗ uptime
16:14 up 118 days, 23:20, 30 users
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14 Aug 2025
If you have ever played chess, you will love this week’s blog post on AI by @tabrezsyed blog.boxcars.ai/p/brawn-beat…
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20 Jan 2025
If you are struggling to manipulate a table of data in Ruby or Rails, you have to check out the Polars gem by @andrewkane - github.com/ankane/ruby-polar…
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27 Sep 2024
I just started using puma-dev for my dev rails projects. So refreshing!
github.com/puma/puma-dev
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26 Sep 2024
Rails 8.1 will have active record search and avoid elastic search.
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9 Jul 2024
Working with Mike (@m2jr), one of his favorite sayings, a Wayne Gretzky quote, always stuck with me: ‘…skate to where the puck is going…’ Learned so much from him. His new book ‘Pattern Breakers’ shares his wisdom with everyone!
amazon.com/Pattern-Breakers-…
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8 Jul 2024
I wanted to try out chatGPT for baking. I asked for a pound cake recipe that uses maple syrup instead of sugar. The result was excelent, and it stayed moist for three days.
It is a keeper and now in my Paprika app with the title: "ChatGPT Maple Syrup Pound Cake"
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15 Nov 2023
This documentary on the history of Ruby on Rails is so well done. It captures the essence of how it started and how it is going now. I'm so thankful for everyone who contributed to it over the years, starting with @dhh
youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF…
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31 Oct 2023
Candles waver, fires roar: nature's test of anti-fragility.
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2 May 2023
Really exciting acquisition for us!
This is a powerful DataOps addition to our platform, to bring data insights to the "edge" where analytics users live.
You have an opportunity to see ALL of this in action on May 16. Don't miss it!
data.world/company/press-roo…
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27 Apr 2023
"Your turn arrives, and you speak passionately. You've been reading the boxcars.ai blog (how meta 🤯 ), and you worry the discussion has been shortsighted."
boxcarsai.substack.com/p/mom…
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22 Apr 2023
New Boxcars gem now gives you an in-memory vector store. Check out this simple example of vectorizing and then searching Notion Markdown data #ruby #openai #notion #boxcarsai github.com/BoxcarsAI/boxcars…
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13 Apr 2023
Check out the new Open API Swagger Boxcar in the boxcars gem. With this, you can now easily connect to other services. Examples - github.com/BoxcarsAI/boxcars…
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28 Mar 2023
We just explicitly stated this now. Until we can build a secure sandbox or other handling structure, the boxcars gem is designed for individuals with administrative privileges for their projects. See the updated README here github.com/BoxcarsAI/boxcars
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24 Mar 2023
The future - we will be working with our machines and not on them! khoipond.substack.com/p/what…
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23 Mar 2023
Our latest newsletter is out:
boxcarsai.substack.com/p/the…
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8 Mar 2023
From String to Sing: How ChatGPT can write your #rubyonrails Active Record code
See 3 ways to get ChatGPT to turn a user question ("how many articles has john written?") into a query
dev.to/tabrezsyed/from-strin…
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7 Mar 2023
An updated version of the boxcars gem 0.2.0. It now uses the 10x less expensive ChatGPT LLM by default and has better error recovery. For the latest changes, see github.com/BoxcarsAI/boxcars
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7 Mar 2023
Also has better error recovery when the format of things gets off:
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