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Thoughts, projects, books, and reference notes by Josh Saint Jacque

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Awesome Ruby

A curated map of Ruby articles, gems, projects, tools, talks, and community updates that make a Ruby developer's day a little more fun.

Ruby Rails Hotwire
May 12, 2026
Blog Post

Code Got Cheaper. Our Rituals Didn’t Notice.

Software used to be hard to change, so we built rituals around deciding before building. But what happens when code becomes the fast part?

Software Engineering Project Management Agile
May 7, 2026
Book

The Courage to Be Disliked

Freedom requires accepting that other people may disapprove of you.

Psychology Philosophy Self-Help
May 5, 2026
Cheat Sheet

Clean Code

A concise reference to Clean Code’s core principles: readable code, meaningful names, small functions, tests, SOLID design, refactoring habits, and common code smells.

Clean Code Refactoring Software Engineering
May 5, 2026
Book

Clean Code

Code is written once but read and changed constantly, so optimize for clarity, intent, and safe modification.

Software Engineering Code Quality Refactoring
May 4, 2026
Project

Globe

A globe representing the places I've lived and visited. Fun experiment in Three.js.

Ruby Rails Three.js Stimulus Tailwind
Apr 27, 2026
Blog Post

On Orchestration

Why software engineering is shifting from writing syntax to orchestrating context, constraints, and review.

AI Software Engineering Orchestration
Feb 28, 2026
Blog Post

Maintaining Code Quality on Remote Teams

Practical tips for keeping your codebase clean and maintainable.

Remote Work Code Quality
Oct 7, 2024
Blog Post

How Switching to TypeScript Transformed Our Frontend

From fewer bugs to easier refactors, the impact of TypeScript on our codebase.

TypeScript Refactoring
Jan 1, 2019
Project

Ritani Engagement Ring Platform

Worked on Ritani’s Rails and Spree-based ecommerce platform for designing and purchasing custom diamond engagement rings. Built customer-facing shopping flows, dynamic product interfaces, API integrations, and backend features across MySQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch.

Rails Spree jQuery MySQL
Jan 1, 2017

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    On the same day OpenAI offers businesses two months of free usage to just to try it out, Anthropic nerfs Claude's subscription subsidy by 25x for programmatic uses. Anthropic needs to put a product person in the driver's seat before they drive off a cliff. (opens in new tab)
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    Finally got around to collecting together Ruby resources into one place. Some really cool stuff in here. (opens in new tab)
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    When code gets cheaper, planning doesn’t disappear. But over-planning gets harder to justify. (opens in new tab)
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    The hard part of software is becoming less about typing code. More about judgment. Context. Validation. Coordination. (opens in new tab)
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    Software teams built rituals for a world where code was expensive. AI didn’t make software easy. It moved the bottleneck. (opens in new tab)
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    We're going to have so many "zombie rituals" that hang around for years just because it's what we've always done. The teams that adapt the best are going to be the ones that ruthlessly let go and are willing to try new things. (opens in new tab)
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    The entire software development lifecycle was built around code being expensive and hard to change. Now that it's the fast part, so many of our processes need to be questioned and deconstructed. (opens in new tab)
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    New book note: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga (opens in new tab)
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    New cheat sheet: Clean Code (opens in new tab)
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    New book note: Clean Code by Robert Martin (opens in new tab)
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    How do you do, fellow kids? #SpotifyWrapped (opens in new tab)
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    Being on call when AWS goes down is like being on a bucket brigade on the sun. (opens in new tab)
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    Raycast's clipboard history is actually really nice. I bind it to cmd+shift+v and it's very handy. (opens in new tab)
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    I wouldn't be surprised if OpenAI eventually introduces ads to Sora 2 (or ChatGPT) because it's an easy way to bring in a huge amount of revenue. But the real value is the data they're collecting along the way. (opens in new tab)
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    This data will be crucial not just for Sora 3, but also ChatGPT-6, and giving LLMs better world models. Training AI models to get better at things that have objective answers is a lot easier than things which are subjective (e.g., is this video "good"?). (opens in new tab)
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    @hankgreen.bsky.social's take on Sora 2 misses something crucial: it's entirely about data. It's a platform for humans to provide massive amounts of free training data to OpenAI by viewing/engaging/remixing videos. (opens in new tab)
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