Trailblazer for Rails - Interesting project to reimagine the MVC structure of Rails to introduce an additional layer where the business logic lives, ensuring the model is just for persistence and the controller is just for HTTP requests. Addresses an issue I've encountered in the past, and I'm curious to see how it develops. February 17, 2015

hstore in postgres - Wow. I thought the array datatype was cool, but hstore brings NoSQL-style flexibly-structured data to applications where SQL makes sense 90% of the time. Plays nicely with Rails 4 via the store_accessor method. January 14, 2015.

Ralf's ukulele covers - For the last three years, Ralf Youtz (formerly of Built To Spill, Halo Benders, The Feelings) has been blasting these out wonderful, eclectic uke covers on his YouTube channel.  So fun. January 11, 2015