Rob Zolkos
@robzolkos
Ruby on Rails developer leveraging AI tools and practical workflows. Sharing my experiences and learnings.
Why are all the AI speech to text apps called Whisper* - Whisper this, Whisper that. What happened to Yell, Scream, Bark, or Screech?
I predict that we're going to see a resurgence in the 2000s-era craft practices: TDD, README-driven development, Domain Driven Design, etc. These are all (good) approaches for separating the design of a system from its implementation, which is becoming really important now.
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"You’ve probably encountered this frustrating scenario: you ask about a specific library or framework, and the AI confidently provides outdated information" zolkos.com/2025/07/21/con…
I name my wifi network smallville. My desktop is Clark. My laptop is Krypto. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
i never understand when people say "i can't come up with any ideas to build" every single day you probably run into a million problems, inconveniences, or inefficiencies. start by building something that solves your own problem start writing down all these problems and you'll…
A router makes complete sense. A human needing to pick the correct model for the best outcome is the least intelligent UX imaginable.
Heard GPT-5 is imminent, from a little bird. - It’s not one model, but multiple models. It has a router that switches between reasoning, non-reasoning, and tool-using models. - That’s why Sam said they’d “fix model naming”: prompts will just auto-route to the right model. -…
Stimulus has had DOM as source of truth since the beginning and it’s really nice to work with and reason about.
Sometimes DOM-as-source-of-truth is so much easier to deal with than `ui = fn(state)` The web platform just isn't designed to be used that way Easy examples: - You can't really "control" window scroll position - Definitely can't control if an <select> is open/closed
Really nice! Did the mini version of that as a standard binding: github.com/basecamp/omarc…
Anyone installed Google Chrome in Omarchy and having trouble with cut and paste from browser to terminal (hangs)?
I’ve used Ruby so long that 5.times feels familiar, but it’s always fun seeing how devs from other languages react when they first hear about it.