The unfiltered story of Rails Lens: ten years of frustration, harassment, theft, and finally breaking free to build something better. From TOML discoveries to AI validation, this is how persistence beats pattern parasites.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
Learn how to break free from the laboratory system, spot genuine technical leaders, and redirect your empathy to protect the real victims. Plus: How the "be kind" movement was weaponized to silence technical expertise.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
From FOREX scammers to tech influencers: How the same laboratory system weaponizes your empathy, farms your confusion, and sells you certainty. The psychology behind why we defend our gurus and attack the experts who could actually help us.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
The rise of single-maintainer projects like SQLite and curl isn't an anomaly - it's the future. Why committees kill innovation and how solo developers or super focused teams with clear vision will reshape open source.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
Why open source maintainers burn out: an autopsy of entitlement culture. Dropping legacy support triggered an email storm that perfectly demonstrates the parasitic mindset keeping us trapped in the past.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
After 12 years maintaining state_machines, I dropped Rails 7.1 support. This is the story of why forever backward compatibility kills innovation and how I'm building for the future, not maintaining the past.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
The surgical breakdown of a 1.6k LOC Ruby monolith into focused modules. Or: how I performed open-heart surgery on a dying codebase and lived to tell the tale.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
Legacy support isn't just technical debt—it's innovation debt. Here's why I finally bumped my Ruby gem to require version 3.2.0 and why you should stop dragging corpses through your codebase.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
When SQL queries become unmaintainable nightmares and simple questions require recursive CTEs, it's time to discover why graph databases are changing how we think about data relationships.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
How open source contributions became immutable proof of skills, why GitHub matters more than LinkedIn, and the future where code speaks louder than credentials.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
Beyond "people who write code" - the 15+ types of contributors that make open source projects thrive, and why every role matters in the digital ecosystem.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
From critic to maintainer in one conversation: what happens when you complain about a gem and suddenly become responsible for fixing it.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
The hidden costs of open source development that every Twitter advocate with a stable salary won't tell you about.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
How to separate system prompts from project instructions for better AI development workflow using standardized metadata files.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
How working with JRuby 10 and Rails 8 changed my perspective on the JVM, one reluctant commit at a time.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
As an open-source maintainer, I'm yanking broken package versions. Here's why you should too.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
The harsh reality check every aspiring AI entrepreneur needs to hear in 2025...| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
How I escaped the zoo of monkey patches and built a clean, Rails 8-friendly PostGIS adapter gem that actually works with modern Rails.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
How building a Cypher DSL taught me more about framework design, why supporting legacy is a trap.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
Exploring how analogies and metaphors enhance the learning process of Large Language Models.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
Learn how graph databases and knowledge graphs can transform your RAG system from guessing to intelligent reasoning with structured data.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
MCP Prompts aren't just templates—they're server-defined, discoverable scripts that bring preloaded sanity to your AI development workflow.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
Model Context Protocol (MCP) isn't just a tool registry—it's a paradigm shift that turns AI assistants into true development partners.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
When AI-driven speed meets open source ecosystems, we get 'vibe packages'—libraries published fast but maintained poorly. Here's the impact.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
How AI coding assistants are influencing API design in Ruby, and whether we're reinforcing old patterns or creating new opportunities.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
Rails AppVersion provides a standard way to handle version and environment information in Rails apps with best practices for deployment.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
NoFlyList automatically detects your database type and uses specific optimization strategies to make tag queries blazingly fast.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
Tag parsing seems simple until you handle real user input. Explore how NoFlyList's custom screening prevents malicious and spam tags.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
Learn when to use polymorphic vs model-specific tags by building a blog platform. Understand the trade-offs and performance implications.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
From technical debt in Acts-as-Taggable-On to production-ready NoFlyList: a journey of building cleaner, faster tagging for Rails apps.| Seuros Blog
After 10 years as an AWS customer and open-source contributor, they deleted my account and all data with zero warning. Here's how AWS's 'verification' process became a digital execution, and why you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything.| Seuros Blog
