• Root Domain Website Hosting for Amazon S3 - Another nice tweak for folks putting static sites out on S3 for painless scaling.
• git-pivotal-hooks - Link commits to Pivotal Tracker stories when you push to GitHub.
• Rust for Rubyists - New eBook about Mozilla's Rust language.
• Why I Don't Use ActiveSupport::Concern - Corey Haines critiques the design of AS::Concern.
• Speed up Travis-CI build preparation time by 800% - A few things you can do on most any project.
• capybara cheat sheet - Easier than wading through the readme.

• Revert "Ignore /bin on new apps" - Just in case you're missing your holiday dose of Ruby/Rails drama.
• Downtime last Saturday - GitHub continues to be a model of transparency when things go wrong.
• Bootstrap Date/Time Picker - Simple and nice looking.
• Inky - Another entry in the "rethinking email clients" sweepstakes.

White post-Christmas. Kids love it.

• RailsPanel - Chrome extension to monitor Rails logs.
• Iridium - Pre-release toolchain for Javascript application development.
• Ruby 1.9.3-p362 is released - The official announcement.
• Coercible - Gem for configurable coercion between Ruby data types.
• Simple CI with git hooks for your rails projects - Run your tests using a post-commit hook.

Weeks of December 17 - December 23, 2012

• f6bbc3f5 adds app/models/concerns and app/controllers/concerns to the load path. This is the change that supports the officially blessed way to put fat models on a diet.
• Rails supports the PostgreSQL int4range and int8range data types directly as of 9a4a095e.
• Support for email obfuscation was removed from the mail_to helper in cf9d9450. There's a new actionview-encoded_mail_to gem if you still need it.
• 86c5cea9 cleans up some of the documentation on controller-specific assets, a perennial source of confusion.
• Built-in background jobs support was stripped out of master at f9da785d; it'll be worked on in a branch and won't ship with Rails 4.0.

And to all a good night.

• Crontabulator - "Cron & task monitoring as a service."
• My Workflow: Never having to leave DevTools - This won't be the last we see about the browser and the programmer's editor becoming a single entity.
• Launched - A launchd.plist generator.
• Wiselinks - A more configurable alternative to turbolinks.
• DataFart - Unfortunately named service for putting together quick and ephemeral dataset graphs.
• Webshell - Online shell for Javascript APIs.
• Introducing Typingpool, My Software for Easy Audio Transcription - Break an audio file into multiple chunks, send them to Mechanical Turk for transcription, and reassemble them for pennies.
• AWS Command Line Interface (Developer Preview) - New official tool from Amazon.
• GitLab 4.0 Released - Increasingly spiffy self-hosted alternative to GitHub.

If you come for the software links, you likely don't give a hoot about my thoughts on gun laws. But if you do, you'll find them over at my personal site.

After being at meetings with 200 different kids these past four nights…I guess it's not surprising that I've got a cold this morning.

• Commands - New gem to speed up running rake and rails commands while you're developing. Not fully baked yet, but looks promising.
• rails_trace - Rack middleware to show you exactly what lines of code are being executed during a Rails request.
• DataMapper 2 Status and Roadmap - It's coming along.

Yeah, go ahead and ignore your deadlines due to the end of the world. I'll still be here tomorrow.

• JetBrains special offers - Speaking of which, JetBrains is offering 75% off for 24 hours only. If I were going to run any IDE it'd be RubyMine.
• ppl - Command-line address book using git and ruby, with vcard storage.
• King of Nothing, the DCI paradigm is a scam, Chubby Models Are StilL Fat With Concerns, and DCI, Concerns and Readable Code - Yeah, we're still arguing on how to decompose large Rails models.
• Interactive Guide to Blog Typography - How to improve things.

• jQuery Core 1.9 Upgrade Guide - Tooling and tips for a successful migration.
• Savon 2.0 - New version of this SOAP client for Ruby.
• request_store - A better alternative to Thread.current if you need per-request global storage.
• Put chubby models on a diet with concerns - The official Rails convention for distributing a model across multiple files. OO purists complain, but I find it a workable strategy.
• AWS: the good, the bad and the ugly - Some advice from a heavy AWS user.

How's it feel to be cattle, Instagram users?

• Maid - "Hazel for Hackers", a command-line system with ruby rules to clean up your file mess.
• CSS Click Events - A roundup of techniques to have CSS respond to clicks without involving any JavaScript.

Weeks of December 10 - December 16, 2012

• After several iterations, baea5d69 removes the public/index page in favor of an internal-to-rails controller.

• SpriteMachine - Online tool to create CSS sprites.
• Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! - Beginner's guide and tutorial.
• Cocoa JSON Editor - $3.99 tool that ended up saving me a batch of time.
• Ten Things Developers should know about the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) - How about just "it's a great site for web API docs"?
• Sublime Text snippets for Ruby on Rails 3 - An attempt to update the default set.
• Scratchpad - Collaborative HTML/CSS online editor.
• DevTools Toolbox Ready for Testing - Firefox has been building a unified UI for its tools, and this is now in nightly builds.
• The Future of Ruby - The discussion continues.
• PowWow - Collaborative screen sharing for OS X, with both parties in control.

Looking forward to a break from coding this afternoon.

• 6 Ways to get More Bang for your Heroku Buck While Making Your Rails Rise Super Snappy - Things you can do to squeeze more performance out of the Heroku environment.
• A Ruby Design Process - Formal proposal that some language implementers are discussing. Discussion is here.
• JS Testing Recipes - Mailing list for a forthcoming book.

I do so love having a wonkified schedule.

• Gameon - Mozilla wants to see what you can do using the web as a gaming platform.
• Faster Rails partial rendering and caching. 78% improvement of test application - By doing parallel fetches of cached partials from memcached.
• Analytics.js - Unified wrapper for GA, KISSmetrics, and Mixpanel.

Starting to feel like we might actually have a winter this year.

• Git Gutter - ST2 plugin that shows git line status in the gutter.
• Labrador 0.2 - Database client focused specifically on Rails development databases.
• TraceKit - JavaScript library for uniform stack traces across all the major browsers.
• box2d-jQuery - Amusing code that turns your DOM into "physical" objects that fall down and can be kicked around.
• Google60 - Google as seen through mainframe eyes.
• Lorempixel - Placeholder images for every purpose.

Survived another Cub Scout meeting. Lots of exuberance in the room.

• LinkToAction - Set of helpers for DRYer links in Rails views.
• Developers Meeting 2012-12-10 - Looks like Ruby is heading for a more formal feature approval process.
• Brocco - Documentation generator that runs directly in the browser.
• HTTP Status Dogs - A counterpoint to the ubiquitous cats.

Weeks of December 3 - December 9, 2012

• The venerable schema_migrations table gets some new metadata in 0a5afa22, including a fingerprint and timestamp.
• f02d2185 builds on this to add full migration history to schema.rb.
• Active Record can use NOT in relation building as of de75af7ac, so you can say things like Customer.where.not(:name => 'Joe'). (The original commit also included LIKE support, but that was removed in 8d02afea5).
• 9d62e048 renames all action callbacks from *_filter to *_action. Seems like pointless jerking around to me, but whatever.

The new week looms like a great white whale waiting to be harpooned.

• Scribe - Project whose goal is to be able to record and replay your entire application stack in execution.
• Darling - OS X emulation layer for Linux. Definitely early days.
• Better Errors - Nicer looking error page for Rails, with built-in REPL.
• CSS Explain - Like SQL EXPLAIN, but for CSS selectors.
• jQRangeSlider - Nice-looking UI component for jQuery.

I hope this web app survives tonight.

• Introducing Sauce for Mac: The Easiest Way to Launch Any Browser Right From Your Mac - A little less friction in the OS X world for paid access to browser instances.
• Everything you ever wanted to know about constant lookup in Ruby - And probably a few things that you didn't.
• Mustard - A new take on expectation libraries for Ruby testing.
• Rails Engine Testing with RSpec, Capybara, and Factory Girl - How to set up all the pieces.
• Rails Hotline - Volunteer-staffed help for your Rails projects.

What we need is servers with unlimited RAM.

• Gitnesse - Git-based wiki with Cucumber integration for acceptance testing.
• Chrome Devtools cheatsheet - All the shortcuts you need.
• Git: Twelve Curated Tips and Workflows From the Trenches - Some good stuff here.
• Flatstrap - Bootstrap with flat styling.
• Into the Turing Tarpit - This month's competition on PLT Games.