Remote Ruby

Memcached Mayhem

On this episode, Chris, Andrew, and David bounce from Ruby and Rails security updates into the messy realities of caching, UI architecture, and browser support. They break down the latest Zlib-related Ruby CVE, Dalli updates, Rails security and bugfix releases, and what maintenance windows mean in practice. Then, they swap stories about Redis, Memcached, observations about GitHub’s reliability amid massive Claude attributed code activity, and the kinds of performance problems that only show up at scale. The episode closes with a thoughtful Rails frontend discussion covering nested layouts, active sidebar links, CSS-powered empty states, pagination behavior, popovers, anchor positioning, and why Safari still makes simple UI work harder than it should be. Hit download now to hear more!  LinksJudoscale- Remote Ruby listener giftZlib::GzipReaderDalliMemcachedAttributed Claude activity over the last 90 days on GitHub (Armin Ronacher X)The Standup with ThePrimeagen Podcast-Is AI ruining opensource? (Lost episode)Nested Layouts with Rails (GoRails)current_page?link_to_ifGeared PaginationHoneybadgerHoneybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers.JudoscaleMake your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Chris Oliver X/TwitterAndrew Mason X/TwitterJason Charnes X/Twitter

Conferences, AI Trends, and Sleepless Nights

Chris, Andrew, and David catch up on health, sleep deprivation, and the new Invincible season and Fallout. David shares some RubyConf CFP submissions news and this year’s broad conference themes. They discuss Andrew finishing difficult authentication work, touching on OAuth/SSO complexity and pricing, the idea of products built more for bots than humans, and where AI is proving useful, especially for debugging and research. The conversation eventually widens into a more skeptical look at the AI industry itself, touching on scraped code, deepfakes, surveillance, lobbying, and whether the promised productivity gains really match reality. Hit download now!LinksJudoscale- Remote Ruby listener giftInvincibleFalloutRobby Russell XSam Altman XGhosttyRuby 4.0.2 Released RubyConf: July 14-16, 2026, Las Vegas, NVRails World 2026- September 23-24, Austin, TX (Update)HoneybadgerHoneybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers.JudoscaleMake your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Chris Oliver X/TwitterAndrew Mason X/TwitterJason Charnes X/Twitter

Unraveling GitHub Actions & Modern Auth Challenges

On this episode, Andrew’s buried in messy authentication work spread across legacy code, Chris recounts a frustrating GitHub Actions debugging session, and David explains the mental drain of working across both Vue 2 and Vue 3 in the same application. They talk about using workflow run triggers, scheduled builds, and GitHub’s new Agentic Copilot workflows such as CI Doctor, Automatic Code Simplifier, and issue/PR management, while lamenting low-quality AI-generated PRs and paid AI code review tools. Andrew makes a special announcement about Blastoff Rails, they compare LazyVim, lazy.nvim, and Kickstart Neovim, we hear about Ruby 3.4.9 and its bug-fix release, and Marco Roth’s Herb improvements for ERB tooling. Hit download now to hear more! LinksJudoscale- Remote Ruby listener giftUpload-artifact v7.0.0 (GitHub)Download-artifact v8.0.0 (GitHub)GitHub Agentic WorkflowsBringing Code Review to Claude CodeScott’s Pizza ToursBlastoff Rails-June 11-12, 2026, Albuquerque, New MexicoLearn Enough Bridgetown to be Dangerous (Andrew’s talk)lazy.nvimLazyVimkickstart.nvimkickstart-modular.nvimTree-sitterHerbMarco Roth X (Herb)HoneybadgerHoneybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers.JudoscaleMake your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Chris Oliver X/TwitterAndrew Mason X/TwitterJason Charnes X/Twitter

Heroku, Hosting, and the AI Era

Chris and David welcome back Adam McCrea from Judoscale, to discuss the uncertainty around Heroku after Salesforce’s announcement that it would stop taking new enterprise customers. Adam shares how the news landed in real time during a founder’s retreat, and the conversation expands into what Heroku’s apparent “maintenance mode” means for developers, pricing, autoscaling, platform alternatives, and the broader challenge of building durable developer businesses in the AI era. They also touch on Judoscale’s upcoming “platform tour” and the value of smaller Ruby conferences. Hit download now to hear more! Sponsors:HoneybadgerJudoscaleLinks:Chris Oliver XAndrew Mason BlueskyDavid Hill LinkedInJudoscale- Remote Ruby listener giftAdam McCrea XAdam McCrea LinkedInJudoscaleRemote Ruby-Episode 163: Autoscaling Rails with Adam McCreaHeroku: What’s Next by Jon Sully (Judoscale Blog)An update on Heroku by Nitin T BhatRenderLaravel CloudRBQ Conf, March 26-27, 2026, Austin, TXBlue Ridge Ruby, April 30-May 1, 2026, Asheville, NCRubyConf, July14-16, 2026, Las Vegas, NVRails World 2026, September 23-24, 2026, Austin, TXRuby Events 2026HoneybadgerHoneybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers.JudoscaleMake your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Jeff Dickey on Mise, Precompiled Rubies, and much more

Chris, Andrew, and David welcome special guest Jeff Dickey (jdx), creator of mise, discussing his background rewriting the Heroku CLI from Ruby to Node due to Ruby distribution/sandboxing issues.  The conversation digs into why language CLIs are hard to distribute, the tradeoffs between shims vs PATH-based version switching, why tasks can be the “clean” solution, and Jeff’s Rust-first tooling philosophy. They also dive into his other projects: usage (CLI docs/completions), Pitchfork (dev daemon runner that starts/stops services by directory), and fnox/Fort Knox (secrets management with encrypted files or remote stores like 1Password), and a big upcoming shift: pre-compiled (portable) Rubies becoming the default in mise. Press download now!LinksJudoscale- Remote Ruby listener giftJeff Dickey XJeff Dickey (jdx) Blueskymisefnox--usagePitchforkcommuniquéCasey Neistat: NYC’s Worst Blizzard in a Decade, hour by hour (YouTube) Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter