This is my attempt at putting into words how I feel about vibe coding and it’s impact on our industry. Some who know me will already be rolling their eyes, I’m not exactly quiet about my dislike of AI generally, LLMs mostly, and vibe coding particularly, our company dislikes it so much we have...

   If you use fly.io as a reverse proxy, you might be surprised to find that when you run a port scan it looks like all ports are open. This can look like a potential security issue, especially if all your proxy needs to do is route web traffic somewhere. Fortunately this is just an example of Fly’s...

   We have a Ruby on Rails project that we are sunsetting and we want to tell Dependabot to only update minor versions of Gems as we don’t want to introduce any potential breaking changes to the project. We can specify this in the Dependabot configuration file like so: .github dependabot.yml version...

   This is our fourth threat intelligence post. When appropriate, we will aim to share some wider industry news that might impact our clients. We initially thought about doing this weekly, but after a few weeks of it realised it would just become a small list of links, which has some value, but going...

   Dependabot allows you to specify a cooldown for new dependencies, what this means is if a new dependency is less than the cooldown period, say, 7 days, then it won’t make it into your codebase. This is an excellent way to mitigate supply chain attacks and other whoops moments with dependencies....

   This is our third threat intelligence post. Each week, if appropriate, we will aim to share some wider industry news that might impact our clients. We didn’t have one last week because there was nothing of major importance. This issue will be covering; Ruby, and some wider points. Ruby Last week, a...

   We now help with two projects (Irish Pipes and Turas) that are focused on and written with Irish (Gaeilge), as part of this work we do some SEO reporting for the clients. By the way, if you have an Irish language project and need some tech folk to help with it, get in touch One of the issues with...

   Inbox zero has fallen out of fashion as a buzzword, but used to be bandied about as the height of productivity. I’ve never believed that, however, my brain does work much better when my various inboxes are empty and my actions are in a dedicated actions list. This article touches on some of the...

   This is our second threat intelligence post. Each week, if appropriate, we will aim to share some wider industry news that might impact our clients. What we cover will depend on what has been happening the previous week, this week, for example, is a much shorter update. Ruby Some of the folk that...

   This is our first threat intelligence post. Each week, if appropriate, we will aim to share some wider industry news that might impact our clients. We will be covering; Ruby, JavaScript, Postgres, Heroku, Render, Cloudflare, and Github, as well as wider geo-political points. Ruby The Ruby community...