Epona's Tech & Life

How my personal tech stack evolved from Rails Hotwire to React, and eventually to Phoenix LiveView—and why AI coding tools like Tidewave made Phoenix click for solo projects.

Why I moved a personal Rails project from Hotwire to Vite and React: UI component libraries like shadcn/ui, real-time AI component previewing, and the inevitable deployment trade-offs.

How to implement Google OAuth login in Rails 8 using OmniAuth and the built-in authentication generator, without relying on Devise.

Learn how to configure Neovim to support VS Code-style navigation features for Ruby on Rails projects using Ruby LSP, including route definition lookups and view file navigation through Code Lens.

How to configure hotwire-combobox in Rails to return custom prefixed IDs (like acct_xxx) using the `value` option in async_combobox_options.

I managed to snag tickets to the Nintendo Museum, so I spent three days exploring Kyoto and Uji along the way. Here's a record of the museum, the Uji River, and my wanderings.

A quick look at how the `&` operator works in Ruby, from `Symbol#to_proc` to converting method objects into blocks.

A quick summary of key new features in Rails 8: Kamal 2 with Thruster, Solid database-backed adapters (Queue, Cache, Cable), Propshaft asset pipeline, and the new authentication generator.