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You have a new Mac and you are so excited to get going on creating awesome applications on it. First, though, you need to install some dev tools. What do you put on your brand new machine?

Committing to maintain a fork of an active project has distinct challenges I have learned. In brief, they center on two themes...

As you build increasingly complex applications with the latest release of Rails, it’s important to monitor your application stack for performance and quickly troubleshoot any issues before they're on fire. You can use New Relic One to monitor your application’s performance and diagnose issues.

I am here to tell you that as a second career developer you have something that can be an incredible boost to your work. Counter-intuitively, this boost is often seen as a detraction.

Over the years I have observed several habits of remote-first teams that enable productivity, happiness and success. What I describe here is what has worked for me, and what I have seen work best in the places I've been.