• happy-plan - Static site generator using jekyll, compass, fontcustom, and grunt, among other tooling.
• Coveralls - Code coverage as a service.
• Stop working (so hard) - I agree that you need to know when to take a break. I'm less convinced that 35 hours is the magic maximum for everyone.
• Codepen - Nice-looking HTML/CSS/JS playground.
• Shoulda Matchers 2.0 - Changes consist mostly of removing things to keep it light.
• Routing and Performance on Heroku: a FAQ: Extensive discussion from Heroku of recent poerformance issues and what they're doing about it.

• AeroFS - File sharing and sync with end-to-end encryption. Sounds similar to Wuala.
• Mosaic - "Turn multiple iPhones into one big screen."
• Helios - Open source mobile backend framework to handle things like push notifications and in-app purchases.

• Upgrade to Rails 4 - An ebook from Philip De Smedt covering what you'll need to change on the way from Rails 3.
• sidr - jQuery plugin for developing responsive side menus.
• Awesome Print for RubyMotion - Dump RubyMotion objects in a pretty format.
• fast_blank - String#blank reimplemented in C for speed.

Week of March 25 - March 31, 2013

• As of 336b3767 the PostgreSQL point type maps to a Ruby array of floats.
• 9600e0b0 adds support for MySQL FULLTEXT and SPATIAL indexes.

• pestilence - Some nasty JavaScript tricks.
• splinter - Additional syntactic sugar for Capybara and RSpec.
• Jeff's Guide to Installing Ruby on Rails - Starting point for beginners.
SignedForm - Attach digital signatures to forms in Rails to synchronize permitted fields with your application with no further code.

• Extra security measures for next week's releases - Looks like we're about to have some "interesting" times for PostgreSQL users.
• Airbrake to join the Rackspace family - Along with the rest of Exceptional's products.
• Using git subtree to share code between Rails applications - How to have a bunch of shared code without cut and paste.
• Framework Benchmarks - Bound to lead to a lot of argument. But broad trends appear to be evident.

• Multilogger - A little code I whipped up to allow saving log messages to multiple targets at the same time.
• Uploadcare - Combined service for file uploading, storage, processing and CDN.
• Riyadh Solar Time - The madness of time zones never ceases to amaze me.
• RVM Autolibs: Automatic Dependency Handling and Ruby 2.0 - RVM is tackling the joint problems of working with package managers and making it easier to compile ruby.
• Rails 4 prints help for "rails new" when running "rails console" - More fun with bundler and rails fighting.
• How are Java attacks getting through? - Basically, the answer is that most users cba to update Java to a recent version.
• How We Handle Our Remote Teams - Some good advice here from the LessEverything guys.
• Rails' Insecure Defaults - "13 Security Gotchas You Should Know About."

• Rails Logger Tricks - I didn't know you could automatically set up log rotation in development.
• DevTools Extensions For Web App Developers - Lots of goodies here if you're working with Chrome as your development browser.
• Quicksilver Comes of Age - I was mildly surprised that it was still around, but this OS X utility and launcher has reached 1.0 at last.
• Scorched - A new lightweight alternative to Rails.

• Conclusion of 1.8.7 to be expected this June - Not even security fixes after that, so upgrade Ruby if you haven't already.
• elasticsearch-head - Web front end for an ElasticSearch cluster.
• RubySec - This advisory database and service now has a web front-end.
• Riak Browser - Lightweight tool for OS X.
• Gioco: The Gamification Gem - I'm pretty skeptical of gamification, but here's a leg up if you want to go that route.
• Checkout GitHub Pull Requests Locally - How to do it.
• Pitfalls of Ruby Mixins - What to watch out for when doing multiple inheritance in Ruby.
• Responsive Web Design Test Tool - Nice precise HTML displayer from DesignModo.
• Alfred Dev Doctor - Workflows aimed at the developer who needs to look things up.

Week of March 18 - March 24, 2013

• 2392535f brought in fixes for the latest round of security vulnerabilities.
• 9a62711c is the best typo fix ever: "commas aren't comas."
• 80941567 supports custom index types for MySQL and PostgreSQL in migrations: add_index(:wikis, :body, :using => 'gin').

Recently I had to implement logging in and posting to Twitter & Facebook for our accounts. The pieces I ended up using: omniauth, omniauth-twitter, omniauth-facebook, twitter, koala.

• Zeus::ParallelTests - Combine two ways to speed up your ruby testing with RSpec.
• Mention - Interesting-looking replacement for Google Alerts.
• Crouton - chroot generator for Chromium OS.
• GitHub Archive - Google runs some big data tools across GitHub commits.
• Crystal - Compiled language sharing a good chunk of Ruby's syntax.
• Padrino 0.11.0 Released - Padrino Lives! - With a ton of changes. The couple of projects I build in Padrino ages ago were fun, might be time to look at this again.
• Jasmine Tactics Screencast - How to write tests for real-world JavaScript.
• Sails.js - MVC framework for node.js.
• GitLab 5.0 Release, Standing on Its Own Two Feet - If you want to host your own git server, this is a good choice.
• Great Workflows to Help You Get More Done With Alfred 2.0 - Lots of goodies here.
• Web Font Rendering Experiment - Pages displaying all the default and common browser fonts at various sizes for reference.

• Abandoning RubyGems - Why Vagrant has moved to a monolithic installer.
• Edge.js: run .NET and node.js code in-process - I'm fairly sure that this is a sign of the end times.

• flatui-rails - Designmodo's flat UI sassified and hooked up to the asset pipeline.
• Firefox Developer Tools work week wrap-up - Lots of stuff headed down the pipeline. The remoting stuff is especially interesting.
• Firefox Terminal V3 - Interactive console in Firefox for JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and LiveScript.
• Backbone.js 1.0 - Yep, finally a whole number release.
• Riak CS is Now Open Source - So you too can build your own S3-compatible cloud.
• The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 (beta) - I'm glad other people are out on the cutting edge so I can hide from it for the time being.
• Upsert - Gem to provide faster insert-or-update performance on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3.
• Perfect Workflow in Sublime Text 2 - A two-hour video course.
• Collective Code Construction Contract - Lots of good patterns here for writing open source software, but the normative language turns me off.
• SublimePrettyJson - A useful plugin if your job, like mine, includes prowling through JSON dumps looking for clues.

• ActionCost - Rails 3 engine to track the SQL cost of your controller actions.
• Today's Email Incident - Never mind GitHub's email, you need to look into the changes in Rails scope chaining before deploying 3.2.13.
• Launching Today: Security Monitor by Code Climate - Scanner to spot vulnerabilities in your Rails applications.
• Flame Graphs in Ruby MiniProfiler - Pretty cool graphics for performance analysis.
• MongoDB 2.4 Released - New version of this well-known NoSQL database.

• minitest-rails: Roadmap to 1.0 - Using minitest in Rails is definitely getting easier.
• You probably shouldn't do this, but it works really well - Mucking with GC for faster tests.
• Stacksort - Sort things by running random code from StackOverflow.
• FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition - The way software ought to be written.
• certified - Gem to paper over some of the problems of Ruby 2.0 and SSL.
• [SEC][ANN] Rails 3.2.13, 3.1.12, and 2.3.18 have been released! - With changes and security fixes.
• Enabling Source Maps in Chrome - Step-by-step with screenshots.
• Future of Firefox DevTools - Lots of interesting ideas here.
• URLcrypt - Securely encode short bits of data in strings that fit into unescaped URLs.

Week of March 11 - March 7, 2013

• 90a97156 adds a rails test command to run the test suite. Looks like this is meant to replace running tests directly through ruby or rake.
• 3008994d brings in generate scaffold password:digest to ease some of the tasks of getting security right.
• a1bb6c8b renames Relation#uniq to Relation#distinct (though there's no deprecation and the older name will continue to work).

• JS Git - Kickstarter to build a JavaScript library that speaks git - an essential part of spinning up a dev environment for something like a Chromebook.
• Intro.js - Spiffy looking library for feature introduction and step by step website overlay.
• Learn Sublime Text line bubbling in 2 minutes - This came along on precisely the day when I needed it. Rearranging code lines has never been so easy.
• httpstatus.es - A helpful guide to all the HTTP status codes.
• What's new in Sinatra 1.4? - New features, new fun.
• EditorConfig - File format and plugins to make it easier to configure multiple text editors and IDEs for the same coding style.
• OverAPI.com - Massive collection of programming (and other) cheat sheets.
• The State of Ruby Web Application Servers - A fine roundup hidden in a Stack Overflow answer.
• Heroku.json - Create a Heroku app with addons and settings taken from a json description file.

• Vienna 3 Beta 10 - New version of my currently-favorite feed reader.
• Rapidash - Gem core for building APIs.
• Vagrant 1.1, VMWare Fusion - Vagrant atop Fusion has been released.
• Alfred v2 Primer: Getting Started With Version 2 - I've been running the beta version of this now-released automation software for a while, and it's quite slick.
• Bring Ruby VCR to Javascript testing with Capybara and puffing-billy - We do love our test tools.
• State of RSS Readers - Roundup of alternatives to the now-defunct Google Reader.
• Mailtrap - Free fake SMTP server for testing.
• Bulletproof Demos - How to use Google Chrome as a demo engine.

Well, I hope some of you stick around despite the demise of Google Reader. Personally, I've been quite happy with running Vienna on the Mac the last few years.

• Transitioning to LittleChef - An evolution of configuration management at Rackspace.
• 5 things keeping DevOps from playing well with others (Chef, Crowbar and Upstream Patterns) - Yeah, I'm needing to turn some of my copious spare time towards DevOps.

• Ruby 2.0.0 in Detail - If you haven't been paying attention, this will get you up to speed.
• Announcing Kiln Harmony: the Future of DVCS - I can't say I personally have ever seen a project where developers argued over Mercurial vs Git, but if you have, this is potentially interesting.
• Saiku - Open source OLAP analysis suite.
• Learn CSS Layout - Online tutorial.