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Technical writing from the SchwadLabs team. Ruby, Rails, open source, and building for the public good.

Building Rain: An Idle Game About Letting Go

Last week Nick and I built an idle game in one sitting. Seven hours. Started around 2pm. By 9pm we had something neither of us expected.

Philippe Dubois · 2 min read

Rise of the Writer

Web-scraped training post-2022 is increasingly poisoned. Human writing is down. The importance of human writing is up. You should write more.

Nick Schwaderer · 3 min read

Resurrecting _why's Dream

Shoes was supposed to make GUI programming in Ruby as joyful as the language itself. When _why disappeared, the dream went with him. Fifteen years later, we're trying again.

Philippe Dubois · 6 min read