Mike Perham

My favorite tech movement in 2025 wasn't anything artifical, but rather the resurgence in interest around building terminal interfaces with two new frameworks, Charm and Ratatui , which make developing pure text user interfaces easier than ever before usi

I'm enabling comments via Mastodon using this webcomponent . @dpecos has done a nice job keeping it self-contained and has made good tradeoffs in functionality vs simplicity IMO. Thanks @sardaukar!

Sidekiq is the most popular background job framework for Ruby applications and over the last 13 years, it has reached maturity in its feature set. It has filled out much of its original design so adding a major new feature is a comparatively rare event th

Since its release last month, Sidekiq 8.0 has been very smooth with few reported issues. I've been quite happy with the rollout and wanted to provide a little more context about the changes. My goals for any user-friendly, high quality software is to redu

After six months of hard work, I'm thrilled to announce the general availability of Sidekiq 8.0! Status Sidekiq is used by thousands of Ruby applications around the world to scale job processing up to billions of jobs/day. Current Sidekiq Enterprise custo

Conventional Commits is a defacto standard for writing commit messages in a manner more useful for both humans and machines. Examples: feat(batches): adjust callback data model to conform to naming standards ci: add ruby 3.4 to matrix style: upgrade stand

I'm happy to announce a substantial $12,000 grant to the Hanami framework. I've been a massive believer in Open Source software since publishing my first open source project in 1995. There's nothing more empowering than direct access to the exact source c

Sidekiq is the most popular background job framework for Ruby and works really well if you follow the design guidelines: keep your jobs short and idempotent. What happens if you have a job which processes a large amount of data serially, the infamous long

A few weeks ago, the owners of Redis changed its licensing from BSD to a more limited source available license. As far as I know this was done in order to prevent service providers from adding their own closed source, proprietary changes to their Redis se

Ruby's JSON library allows you to convert Ruby datatypes into a JSON document, as long as those types are native to JSON: String, bool, int, float, nil, Hash and Array. Everything else converts to a String by default; if you use any other core datatypes,