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https://code.dblock.org/2025/08/29/using-ai-to-reduce-the-burden-of-status-reporting.html Using AI to Reduce the Burden of Status Reporting – code.dblock.org | tech blog One of the negative side effects of having any top-down command structure is that every additional layer risks introducing a new level of bureaucracy, which... using aithe burden https://code.dblock.org/page14/ code.dblock.org | tech blog tech blogcodedblock https://code.dblock.org/2024/12/30/adding-a-spell-checker-to-a-jekyll-blog.html Adding a Spell Checker to a Jekyll Blog – code.dblock.org | tech blog I found it annoyingly non-trivial to add a spell checker to this blog. spell checkeraddingjekyllblogcode https://code.dblock.org/2025/07/30/dont-tell-engineers-what-to-do.html Don't Tell Engineers What to Do – code.dblock.org | tech blog A famous example where telling Engineers what to do backfired was the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. Engineers at Morton Thiokol, the contractor... what to dotech blogtellengineers https://code.dblock.org/2026/01/15/serving-markdown-for-ai-agents.html Serving Markdown for AI Agents in Jekyll – code.dblock.org | tech blog Dries Buytaert recently wrote about The Third Audience. For decades, websites have targeted two audiences: humans and search engines. AI agents are now the... markdown for ai agentsin jekylltech blogserving https://code.dblock.org/2024/12/18/harvesting-the-low-hanging-fruit-in-open-source-projects.html Harvesting the Low Hanging Fruit in Open Source Projects – code.dblock.org | tech blog Every active open-source project grows a lot of low hanging fruit. Encouraging project users to harvest some of the yield can be a great way to engage and... open source projects https://code.dblock.org/2026/03/12/ai-slop-a-slack-api-rate-limiting-disaster.html AI Slop: A Slack API Rate Limiting Disaster – code.dblock.org | tech blog Yesterday I described AI-generated code as “plausible-looking, locally coherent, globally wrong.” Here’s a concrete example from my own codebase. api rate limitingai slop https://code.dblock.org/speaking/ Speaking – code.dblock.org | tech blog tech blogspeakingcodedblock https://code.dblock.org/page10/ code.dblock.org | tech blog tech blogcodedblock https://code.dblock.org/2025/06/21/using-claude-swarm-to-upgrade-ruby-projects.html Using Claude-Swarm to Upgrade Ruby Projects – code.dblock.org | tech blog One of my colleagues wrote a pretty awesome tool called claude-swarm that orchestrates multiple Claude Code instances as a collaborative AI development team.... tech blogusingclaudeswarm https://code.dblock.org/page11/ code.dblock.org | tech blog tech blogcodedblock https://code.dblock.org/2025/08/03/how-to-disagree-and-commit-like-switzerland.html How to Disagree and Commit like Switzerland – code.dblock.org | tech blog The most abused principle in dysfunctional organizations is “Disagree and Commit”. In Don’t Tell Engineers What to Do I said that “telling people what to do,... disagree and commithow totech bloglike https://code.dblock.org/page17/ code.dblock.org | tech blog tech blogcodedblock https://code.dblock.org/2026/02/04/the-golden-ratio-of-manager-to-ic.html The Golden Ratio of Manager to IC – code.dblock.org | tech blog In today’s shocker, Meta is to “create a new applied AI engineering organization aiming for an ultra-flat structure of up to 50 employees to one manager”. the golden ratiotech blog https://code.dblock.org/2015/02/09/becoming-open-source-by-default.html Becoming Open Source by Default – code.dblock.org | tech blog tl;dr Watch this video instead! open sourceby defaulttech blogbecomingcode https://code.dblock.org/2024/10/30/safely-passing-ruby-variables-to-javascript-in-erb.html Safely Passing Ruby Variables to JavaScript in ERB – code.dblock.org | tech blog A user reported a bug in Slava, a bot that syncs Strava activities to Slack, where they couldn’t subscribe to the paid version because their Slack team name... tech blogsafelypassing https://code.dblock.org/2025/09/18/turning-hypermedia-apis-into-mcps.html Turning Hypermedia APIs into MCPs – code.dblock.org | tech blog I’ve written and talked extensively about Hypermedia APIs for about a decade. The HATEOAS constraints in representing resources for a RESTful API has numerous... hypermedia apistech blogturningmcpscode https://github.com/dblock dblock (Daniel (dB.) Doubrovkine) · GitHub ex- @opensearch-project, @aws, @shopify, CTO @artsy @ArtsyOpenSource, @vestris, active maintainer of @ruby-grape, hashie, @slack-ruby, @playplayio - dblock dblockdanielgithub https://code.dblock.org/ code.dblock.org | tech blog tech blogcodedblock