Joel Gaff, Jr.

Software developer, race director, endurance athlete, educator | | | Oregon, Michigan, other places.

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

@ugmonk Dad win right there. Well done. 👊

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

Claude with Chrome is *exactly* the tool I've been longing for for years. How am I just finding this?? 🙈.

"Find me a family-friendly campsite within 3 hours of home on these dates and tee me up to make the final purchase."

"Find me a vet for our new puppy near me that has great reviews and isn't crazy expensive."

Then I go and do some actual work while Claude hums in the background. These are the kinds of tasks I hate having to deal with, but are a real part of running a family.

[Chad Hassler @chadhassler]

On @basecamp 5:

Major overhaul in the best way possible. Driving everything from the keyboard feels incredible. Thank God @dhh got hooked on Linux/Hyprland when he did. You can see the influence in the product.

The @37signals team has managed to keep the skill floor approachable while raising the skill ceiling. No easy task.

I also love how it got launched. There was just enough when it came to preparing customers for the change.

For casual users: "Hey, this is coming. Here's some highlights of what's changing."

For enthusiasts: "Here's a 25 minute walk-through of the product and our thought process behind the changes."

For the die-hards: "Here are the keys. Take it for a spin. Give us feedback. Help us ship this thing."

And for everyone that somehow missed all the heads up, there's a nice 5 minute video that greets you when you log in.

Just enough. Again, no easy task.

There are a thousand things I could say about the design, the fonts, the colors, the functionality. But I think it'd be better for you to discover that for yourself.

Instead, I'll point out one of my favorite things about Basecamp 5... the app icon. It's like a modern throwback. I don't know how else to describe it. Feels good. Feels like home.

If you and your team have been sucked into the AI-first vortex of enshittified project management apps (you know who you are), it's time to give Basecamp another look. It's just enough to get the job done!

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

Oh, Claude, you're making me blush...

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

@IroncladDev @ryanrhughes This thread just saved me from buying two more USB C ports to have “just in case”. Totally forgot about this.

[ABC News @ABC]

This woman just made ultramarathon history in 56-hour, 250-mile run in Arizona.

Rachel Entrekin won the Cocodona 250 outright in a 56-hour, 250+mile effort, beating the entire men’s field, setting a new course record, and marking a landmark moment in ultrarunning history.

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

@robzolkos Updated mine on an @AlaskaAir flight with Starlink today. Lots of good stuff in this update.

[Joe Masilotti @joemasilotti]

Today's my birthday! 🎉
To celebrate I'm officially launching Ruby Native. 💎

Ship your Rails app to the App Store without opening Xcode.

$100 off your first year with code LAUNCH100, this week only.

https://t.co/6Vl0wJMtPw

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

My first *ever* PR (even got approved!) was on Omarchy.

[DHH @dhh]

Omarchy just crossed 400 code contributors with patches to our gorgeous system 🎉

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

Incredible! The first ever sub 2:00 marathon, and TWO dudes go sub-2:00.

[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

Watch Sabastian Sawe 🇰🇪 run 1:59:30 to destroy the Marathon World Record in London!!🤯🔥

First man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon.

2. Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 1:59:41
3. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 2:00:28

All under the previous World Record.

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

I took the #Rails survey and all I got was this lousy tweet. You can take the survey at https://t.co/XPU60OxCYO

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

@joemasilotti @hatchboxio @hatchboxio for the win! 👏

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Fuck it, we just made Fizzy completely free.

The open source installable version was always free, but the SaaS version was pay. No more. Basecamp and HEY's largess will subsidize Fizzy for all.

So go grab your account at https://t.co/pGxSDeGKNK. It's Kanban the way it should be, not the way it has been. Fresh, fun, light, fast, and perfect for working with agents, too.

An official CLI is coming soon as well. Stay tuned for that.

The native iOS app should be out once Apple approves it (it's in approval right now...). Android is already out, you can get it on the Play store.

(and BTW if you were a paying customer, you will no longer be charged moving forward)

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

@hatchboxio is rad.

[Hatchbox.io @hatchboxio]

Most Rails developers are great at building products. They're not great at — and don't want to be — managing servers.

Hatchbox is built for that gap. You bring the app and a fresh Ubuntu server. It handles the rest.

Worth 10 minutes of your time: https://t.co/JVevI8Cn1e

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

Certainly feels like this some days. 😂

[WarrenBuffering @WarrenInTheBuff]

my agents when I hit build after a 40 minute plan mode

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

@ryanrhughes Totally 😝

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

I love when Claude Code gives me a plan that looks like this:
Week 1: ...
- Day 1-2: ...
- Day 3: ...
- Day 4: ...
- Day 5: ...

Week 2: ...
- Day 1-2: ...
- Day 3: ...
- Day 4: ...
- Day 5: ...

I'm like, "no, we're gonna make this in the next 30 minutes." 🤣

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

Still true.

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

The future belongs to idea guys who can just do things

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

Lately it seems like I’m looking forward to Monday when I “just have to work”. Weekends with kids are busy.

[Eliana @eliana_jordan]

Building apps

Day 1 → I have no idea what I’m doing
Day 2 → I have no idea what I’m doing
Day 10 → I have no idea what I’m doing
Day 100 → I have no idea what I’m doing
Day 1000 → I have no idea what I’m doing

Start anyway

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

Have some fun with your nosy seat neighbor on your next flight. 😂

[Joel Gaff, Jr. @joelga]

Decided to have some fun with Claude while on a flight and made a hacker style script that outputs a bunch of seems-like-important stuff and throws a few "errors" along the way.

Have fun: https://t.co/pkQtbhi2oT