In some respects, my latest Joy of Rails article has been eight years in the making.

It’s been about that long since I started experimenting with Progressive Web Apps and Rails. Now that Rails 8 will make Rails PWA-ready, it’s time more devs took note.

joyofrails.com/articles/web-p… This article has something you won’t find in most posts about Web Push: a working demo! (in supporting browsers and devices) 😅

If you’re doing any custom markdown rendering, something you should demand of your Markdown library is access to the abstract syntax tree.

For Ruby, that includes Kramdown, CommonMarker, and Markaby. In JavaScript land, Markdown AST parsing is what makes MDX possible for embedding React components in Markdown.

As a senior engineer in a large(ish) remote organization, I’ve had to lean on diagrams more and more to communicate software design. A picture really is worth a bunch of words. I’ve previously worked on smaller, co-located teams where diagramming was pretty rare, perhaps a whiteboard session every now and then.