Kyrylo Silin

What I Write About

20 May, 2026 Stick with defaults
11 May, 2026 The magic of typing terminal commands
15 Apr, 2026 AI will help you climb the wrong ladder faster
08 Apr, 2026 Less decoration, more communication
01 Jan, 2026 What 2026 yields (announcing Telesink)
22 Dec, 2025 How to self-host Bearlytics with Kamal
21 Dec, 2025 I'm back to Open Source
14 Dec, 2025 English is a poor language for programming with AI
26 Nov, 2025 AI amplifies programmers, not replaces them
27 Sep, 2025 A mere add_foreign_key can wipe out your whole Rails+SQLite production table
21 Aug, 2025 Why do software developers love complexity?
17 Aug, 2025 I'm a proud CRUD monkey
07 Aug, 2025 Not everything needs an update
10 Jul, 2025 AI will take your job (and your boss’s job too)
02 Jul, 2025 I vibe-coded Tech Debt: a game written in pure HTML/CSS/JS
15 Jun, 2025 Your idea probably sucks
01 May, 2025 How the pay-once business model saved my *aaS
28 Mar, 2025 Learn to code, ignore AI, then use AI to code even better
27 Feb, 2025 You know how it ends
09 Feb, 2025 OKLCH CSS variables for Tailwind v4 colors
22 Jan, 2025 The vertical bar (|) is the best HTML page title separator
24 Nov, 2024 How to build a dropdown menu with just HTML
17 Nov, 2024 Hyperlinks existed before the web
17 Nov, 2024 How Counter-Strike introduced me to the world of programming
15 Nov, 2024 How to self-host Plausible Analytics with Kamal
30 Oct, 2024 There's no place for Test-Driven Development (TDD)
25 Oct, 2024 Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front?
23 Oct, 2024 Writing software is like spreading butter on bread
27 Sep, 2024 Notes from the Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson at Rails World 2024
07 Aug, 2024 How to add Mission Control to your Rails app and protect it with Basic Auth
18 Jul, 2024 I built a flag-matching game in 6 days
02 Jun, 2024 How to build and deploy a Telegram bot with Kamal
31 Mar, 2024 Cloudflare Tunnel: a free ngrok alternative for exposing local Rails apps to the internet
20 Mar, 2024 Coffee World Rush: a leaderboard for coffee drinkers all around the world
21 Feb, 2024 I built a word-matching game called Matcharoo
20 Feb, 2024 Using Overmind with Foreman as a fallback for Rails 7.1+ apps
16 Feb, 2024 How to generate sitemap.xml for your Rails 7.1+ app with Kamal
21 Jan, 2024 How to enable the Traefik dashboard in a Rails 7.1 app deployed with Kamal
21 Jan, 2024 How to opt out of the cache with Hotwire's Turbo Drive in Rails
17 Jan, 2024 Making PostgreSQL work with Kamal and a new Rails 7.1 app
08 Jan, 2024 How to run your Turbo Native Android app on a physical device locally
08 Nov, 2023 Embarking on an indie dev journey
21 Jun, 2018 Untangling the “love” Ruby tongue twister
23 May, 2015 A bit of bacon, lettuce and tomato
31 Dec, 2014 Ruby's exception to message mapper
15 Dec, 2013 JavaScript eval tricks
24 Aug, 2013 Ruby eval tricks
13 Aug, 2013 Various ways to count digits in a Ruby integer
09 Aug, 2013 Blocks in Ruby are always there
02 Aug, 2013 How to safely enter passwords in a terminal
15 Jul, 2013 How to say “I love you” in Ruby
03 Jul, 2013 Pulling through a Ruby exception
03 Jun, 2013 Difference between frozen Ruby objects across versions
30 May, 2013 So what is “binding.pry” exactly?