Learn how to normalize all ActiveRecord attributes with a quick peak at the Rails source code.

Learn how to dynamically render Rails partials using standard Rails behavior and model_name.plural when needed to clean up messy if/else conditionals in your views.

What are the warning signs that tell you when you’re off track? How do you stay in your manager’s good graces?

Learn how to use validation contexts in Rails to conditionally validate models - like saving drafts without validation but requiring them when publishing.

The Braille Note Evolve has been described on a number of podcasts and on the web, but I thought I'd make a place holder here for you to refer back to moving forward.And yes, it is most certainly a Windows 11 Pro laptop (with a Braille display).

This is quite spooky: we give the documentation of ESSENTIAL BOARD, an emergency-duties screen for emergency rooms, to an AI, and it creates a podcast based on that. Two hosts discuss the solution.

Es ist schon etwas verrückt! Wir haben die Unterlagen zum digitalen Notdienstplan für die Notaufnahme in eine KI geladen, und sie hat diese Podcastfolge erstellt. Seid dabei, wenn zwei KI-Hosts über Echtzeit-Informationen im Notfall fachsimpeln.

Rails 8.1 introduces a new Markdown MIME Type and renderer to better integrate your apps with AI and other tools that use Markdown

In this demo, I show you how to connect and run two displays at the same time, in this case, the Mantis Q40, but same works for the BI20X, and BI40X with the iPhone (or iPad).

When is your vibe important in business settings? What is the right vibe for interviews, crises, sharing bad news, and career conversations?

In this demo, I mainly point out how to access the Braille Access settings within VoiceOver Utility, point out one difference between iOS/Mac Braille Access, correct my statement aoubt UEB not being on the Mac/Braille Access (which it is), and my my finding of a nifty short-cut for working with BRF files on the Mac inside in the Braille Access menu.For a good review of Braille Access, listen to my last podcast. Woody

Why do people often fail to learn from mistakes? As a leader or mentor, how do you ensure folks understand the consequences of their actions and improve?

Rails 8.1 introduced a local CI setup and run script that allows you to leverage the power of your local system to run a series of steps and optionally integrate with GitHub to sign off on pull requests that have a successful CI run.

In this demo, I give you a quick glimpse as it were in to the wonders smile of using the BI40X on the Mac with VoiceOver. Once Mac os 2026 hits, expect a lot more Braille (Brailiant etc) demos.

How should you adapt to a new manager? What should you discuss at your first one-on-one?

In this episode, we will be looking at pattern matching in Ruby which lets you check the structure of data and save parts of it into variables.

The Rails Authentication generator is getting new test helpers. We'll take a look at how to use them with integration tests and how to extend them to work with system tests too.

Enumerable provides a suite of sorting, filtering, iterating functionality to any collection class in Ruby. It's easy to implement and use, so let's see how to use it.

To provide clean integrations with Rails plugins, we can use lazy load hooks to add callbacks for when classes are loaded.

Learn how to use the CodeMirror editor in your browser using Importmaps.