Building a Game Player with ChatGPT and Rails - Part 2
DougDoug is a Twitch streamer (and programmer!) who recently did a fun stream making ChatGPT play a children’s point-and-click adventure game. It’s a long bu...
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Example: Using after_reply with Puma
Puma has a pretty interesting feature called after_reply - if there’s a potentially costly operation that’s not on the critical path to responding to a consu...
Building a Game Player with ChatGPT and Rails - Part 1
Watching Twitch streamers and their highlight videos is a guilty pleasure of mine. DougDoug does a lot of streams where the main idea utilizes AI, typically ...
ChatGPT
ChatGPT, created by OpenAI, is an amazing tool that’s helpful in refining rote tasks, and will eventually become as commonplace as spellcheck tools. However,...
Unhappy Paths Matter
Most product, design, and engineering folk are well-aware of their app’s Happy Paths - that is, under all the right circumstances, the imagined optimal set o...
Debugging Network Issues with AMC Theatres
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Dumping Data as JSON and Field Deprecation in Active Record
Our team recently came across a fun little quirk in the as_json method of an ActiveRecord model.
Dinosaurs and Observability
Jurassic World Dominion just came in movie theaters. It is absolutely terrible, and I love it.
Capturing Redirect Metrics in Rails
When you’re cleaning up a monolith Rails app, it’s essential to have usage metrics to know what pieces of code are safe to remove. Tools like Datadog APM and...