Returning To Rails in 2026
I love a good side-project. Like most geeks, I have a tendency to go down rabbit holes when faced with problems – give me a minor inconvenience and I’ll happily spend weeks building something far more elaborate than the situation warrants. There’s joy in having a playground to explore ideas and “what ifs”; Building things just for the sheer hell of it, as Richard Feynman put it “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”. So when my covers band started having trouble keeping track of our setlists and song notes (“How many times do we repeat the ending?”, “Why did we reject this song again?”…) I decided to build an app. We’d tried various approaches from spreadsheets to chat groups, and nothing seemed to work or provide a frictionless way of capturing notes and…
