Blog — Zen of Ruby

From the Studio

Notes on building things that last.

Engineering, design and process notes from the people shipping Zen of Ruby's projects.

Real-time WebGL scenes live or die on a handful of decisions made before the first mesh is ever drawn. Here's the checklist we run on every project.

Most technical decisions are cheap to undo. A handful aren't. Knowing which is which is most of what senior engineering judgment actually is.

Cinematic doesn't mean busy. The best motion design on the web is the motion your users never consciously notice, because it feels inevitable.

Taking over an existing codebase starts long before we write a line of code. Here's the process we run in the first two weeks of every audit.