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May 20, 2026 / 14 min read

Rails Has Been Dying Since 2010. I'm Still Building Production On It in 2026.

Every couple of years someone publishes the Rails obituary. Every couple of years I ship another production system on it. The reason isn't loyalty — it's that nothing has actually replaced what Rails decided to do.

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Jan 16, 2026 / 10 min read

The 2026 Web Development Roadmap Nobody's Saying Out Loud

Why learning frameworks matters less than learning to work with AI—and the skills that still separate juniors from seniors

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Aug 20, 2025 / 6 min read

Agentic Programming: Why Most Developers Are Preparing for the Wrong AI Future

The shift from writing code to orchestrating systems is happening faster than you think

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Aug 17, 2025 / 6 min read

The Custom Framework You're Building Will Break Your Team

Why every "lightweight, tailored solution" eventually becomes an unmaintained, undocumented mess

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