Sam Saffron

Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax

We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source

A framework for reasoning about AI-based changes you encounter or create.

Managing database schema changes without downtime

How we manage schema changes at Discourse minimizing downtime

Why upgrading your Linux Kernel will make your customers much happier

Tests that sometimes fail

Over the years one of the most complex issues we have had to deal with at Discourse was flaky tests, in this post I would like to talk a bit about the various patterns we have come across and ways we tackle this issue.

WebSockets: caution required

WebSockets seem to be gaining a resurgence, suddenly they are sexy again. I think this is the wrong message.

Testing 3 million hyperlinks, lessons learned

Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection: ready for production

Speeding up Rails 4.2

On Stack Overflow's recent battles with the .NET Garbage Collector

Debugging memory leaks in Ruby

Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse

I stuck with Windows 10 as my primary OS for 6 years, despite being a Ruby developer. In this blog post I would like to cover why this happened.