Evil Martians
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We’ve got articles for junior and experienced developers, case studies for startup founders and managers, and thorough technical deep dives into unexpected terrain. No matter where you’re coming from, you’re certain to gain some insight here, whether it’s more practical, or something that really takes you for a ride.
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The scenic route: lessons building an IntelliJ IDEA plugin for Luau
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This post covers the complex (but rewarding) process of building native language support for JetBrains from scratch. From crafting lexers and parsers to wrestling with soft keywords, PSI trees, and error recovery, this guide walks through the real stuff.
6日前
The Long Game: why Rails survived the hype cycle and what it means for your startup
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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.
14日前
Circuit breakers and Ruby in 2025: don't break your launch
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Take a deep dive into what circuit breakers are, why you might need them, and the options you have in Ruby.
19日前
Redprints CFP: an open source CFP management app built with Rails + Inertia.js
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Introducing Redprints CFP, an open source CFP management application built for the SF Ruby Conference with Rails and Inertia.js.
1ヶ月前
What we learned from creating PostCSS
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We share what have we learned creating PostCSS and the huge ecosystem around it. Get 8 key lessons from Andrey Sitnik, creator of PostCSS.
1ヶ月前
AnyCable for Laravel: reliable WebSocket infrastructure
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Authors: Vladimir Dementyev, Principal Backend Engineer, and Irina Nazarova, CEOTopics: Real-time, Open Source, DX, Real-time featuresWe built AnyCable for Rails seven years ago. Now it's Laravel's turn.Read more
1ヶ月前
Simplicity, vanished?! Solving the mystery with Inertia.js + Rails
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Has simplicity gone missing in web development? This investigative piece uncovers how Inertia.js + Rails defy JavaScript bloat and reclaim developer sanity.
1ヶ月前
API contracts and everything I wish I knew: a frontend survival guide
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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.
1ヶ月前
We studied 100 dev tool landing pages—here’s what really works in 2025
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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.
2ヶ月前
The early validation lesson: designing Quotient’s prompt sandbox
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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!
2ヶ月前
The Hotwire-Rails summit, or interactive multi-step forms at peak UX
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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.
2ヶ月前
How to make an AI clone of your CEO for the world's biggest hackathon
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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.
2ヶ月前
Weeks → days: a case for expert-led, AI-driven design engineering
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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.
2ヶ月前
A Tea Break: building sfruby.com with Bolt.new
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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.
3ヶ月前
How AI startups use changelogs to win developer trust
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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.
3ヶ月前
Exploring the OKLCH ecosystem and its tools
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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.
3ヶ月前
How Recraft's lean team is challenging the AI image generation giants
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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.
3ヶ月前
Demo app design for Medplum, open source healthcare developer platform
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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.
4ヶ月前
GMI Cloud meets Webflow and speeds ahead in the AI compute race
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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.
4ヶ月前
Rails, hacking, and Stripe as a scoreboard: Marc Köhlbrugge’s playbook
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Marc Köhlbrugge on hacking, building startups, shipping early, why Rails powers his experiments—and his wish for the Ruby ecosystem.
4ヶ月前