What we learned from creating PostCSS—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
We share what have we learned creating PostCSS and the huge ecosystem around it. Get 8 key lessons from Andrey Sitnik, creator of PostCSS.| evilmartians.com
Rails isn’t dead, it’s thriving. Learn how Ruby on Rails survived the hype cycle, why startups like Chime and Figma still bet on it, and what it means for your next project.| Evil Martians
Take a deep dive into what circuit breakers are, why you might need them, and the options you have in Ruby.| Evil Martians
Introducing Redprints CFP, an open source CFP management application built for the SF Ruby Conference with Rails and Inertia.js.| Evil Martians
We share what have we learned creating PostCSS and the huge ecosystem around it. Get 8 key lessons from Andrey Sitnik, creator of PostCSS.| evilmartians.com
Authors: Vladimir Dementyev, Principal Backend Engineer, and Irina Nazarova, CEO| Evil Martians
Has simplicity gone missing in web development? This investigative piece uncovers how Inertia.js + Rails defy JavaScript bloat and reclaim developer sanity.| Evil Martians
A letter from the future about the 3-week endpoint waits, 2 AM staging environment debugging sessions, and why contract-first development changes everything. The hard-won wisdom of API development that nobody tells you until it's too late.| evilmartians.com
While designing a landing page template for dev tool startups, we reviewed 100+ real product sites. Along the way, we uncovered practical insights—here’s what’s worth knowing if you’re building one yourself.| Evil Martians
The awesome Quotient team, a vision from the future, and a brilliant pivot. But if you're a visionary working on next-gen tech, you need to learn from the road we travelled on the way there!| evilmartians.com
Read about the techniques and tools we used to build a slick-looking interactive multi-step form with Rails and Hotwire for one of our clients.| Evil Martians
Evil Martians and Bolt.new teamed up to build an AI clone of their CEO Eric Simons using Tavus to power real-time video calls for the world’s largest hackathon.| Evil Martians
While working on a project highlighting a decade of investments in AI products, I recorded how often I used LLMs. Once done, I reread my notes and was shocked—my tech knowledge, multiplied by AI, helped compress weeks of work into a few days.| evilmartians.com
How we used Bolt.new and AI to launch sfruby.com in days, building a cool and high-converting site for SF Ruby Conf with Astro, OKLCH, and some Martian flair.| Evil Martians
The AI era demands speed—and smarter changelogs! Whether you're building agents or full-stack AI, use changelogs to get people interested and invested in your progress, build in public, and tell your story.| evilmartians.com
Explore a powerful set of tools built around the OKLCH color model—Harmonizer for accessible palettes, Polychrom for Figma contrast checking, apcach for color contrast calculations, and more. Perfect for frontend developers and designers building consistent, modern UIs.| Evil Martians
Conventional thinking says only tech giants with massive resources can compete in AI image generation. But startup Recraft is proving this wrong, carving out big market share with a small team and strategic thinking.| Evil Martians
What began as a request to add templating capabilities to a demo app evolved into something much more valuable: a reimagining of Medplum's product strategy.| evilmartians.com
Evil Martians partnered with GMI Cloud to design and launch a high-performance, Webflow-powered website in just 3.5 weeks—blending fast execution, cutting-edge 3D visuals, and analytics-ready conversion flows to help this $82M-funded AI startup win the GPU compute race.| Evil Martians
Marc Köhlbrugge on hacking, building startups, shipping early, why Rails powers his experiments—and his wish for the Ruby ecosystem.| evilmartians.com
We designed a playground for prompt engineers—and this is how we helped Quotient AI build this developer-first interface for evaluating LLMs. We implemented a complete and structured platform built from scratch, with a clear user flow and intuitive experience.| Evil Martians
We’ve been shipping Kubernetes to clients since 2015, and over the years, we realized it would be nice to have a setup that referred to some core distribution for our Kubernetes configuration. Read about our efforts creating a toolkit for our clients that make adopting it easy and affordable, transforming it from potential headache into just another comfortable tool in the toolbox for those clients who decide to use it with us.| evilmartians.com
In this article, we’ll talk about the process of deploying and managing a real-world application on a Kubernetes cluster using the Martian Kubernetes Kit| evilmartians.com
Start taking graphics on the web seriously and boost your applications' performance by learning the essentials about digital image formats.| evilmartians.com
Learn how to package your Ruby application into a WebAssembly module and run it right in a web browser. Get Ruby Next without leaving your browser and share your experiments with others simply by sending a link.| evilmartians.com
Prefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.| evilmartians.com
Learn to use AV1 to make videos on your website smaller and better quality. CLI instructions and cross-browser tricks.| evilmartians.com
CSS Color Module 4 adds oklch(), and we gain P3 wide-gamut support, boost code readability, and improve developer-designer communication.| evilmartians.com
