Allison

Allison @allieoopz

About: co-founder of infield.ai, writer of Once a Maintainer, like talking to engineers about their work and lives

Joined:
Apr 13, 2023

Allison
articles - 19 total

Launched a lightweight deprecation monitoring tool

If you've got a Rails app that's not on Rails 8 yet try out our new deprecation monitoring tool! It's...

Learn More 1 2Dec 19 '24

Mike McQuaid on 15 years of Homebrew

This week we’re talking to Mike McQuaid, project leader and longest tenured maintainer of Homebrew, a...

Learn More 15 2Jun 18 '24

gemcompat: an open source db of undocumented gem incompatibilities with rails

TLDR: We created an open database of every gem version that’s silently incompatible with Rails. Check...

Learn More 1 0Apr 4 '24

Undocumented Gem Incompatibilities with Rails 7.1

TLDR: Use this script to check whether your app relies on any gems that are silently incompatible...

Learn More 0 0Feb 29 '24

Infield dependency management system launches support for javascript and python

TechCrunch: Infield wants to make open source dependency management trivial

Learn More 0 0Jan 19 '24

The Limitations of Dependabot in Managing Open Source Dependencies

Open source software development has revolutionized the way we build and maintain software. Something...

Learn More 1 1Nov 9 '23

Once a Maintainer: James Lamb

Welcome to Once a Maintainer, where we interview an open source maintainer and tell their...

Learn More 0 0Oct 16 '23

Upgrading Rails at Alice

Alice is a startup in New York City that helps hospitality, retail, and healthcare employees get an...

Learn More 4 0Oct 5 '23

Rails 7.1 is coming out soon. Infield will upgrade your app with minimal back and forth.

Infield keeps open source dependencies up to date with a combination of software and human experts....

Learn More 1 0Oct 5 '23

No changelog for your open source project? We'll make one for you for Hacktoberfest!

Our company helps dev teams keep their open source dependencies up to date. One thing we do is plan...

Learn More 1 0Sep 28 '23

Automated open source dependency upgrade plans

I’ve been writing and using open source software for 20 years. My earliest memory of an open source...

Learn More 0 0Sep 18 '23

Once a Maintainer: Felienne Hermans

Welcome to Once a Maintainer, where each week we interview an open source maintainer and tell their...

Learn More 3 0Sep 15 '23

Looking to talk to open source maintainers about how they think about releasing new versions

How do you think about releasing minor vs. major versions? Changelogs? Do you think about backwards...

Learn More 0 0Sep 12 '23

Once a Maintainer: Marc-André Lafortune

Welcome to Once a Maintainer, where each week we interview an open source maintainer and tell their...

Learn More 1 0Sep 7 '23

Every Taylor Swift album and its corresponding programming language: deluxe edition

I’ve had a bunch of people reach out to me and ask for a deep dive into my list of Taylor Swift’s...

Learn More 6 9Aug 29 '23

Every Taylor Swift album and its corresponding programming language

Debut: Swift 🪕 Fearless: Java 💛 Speak Now: C# 💜 RED: Ruby🧣 1989: C 🕶️ Reputation: Python 🐍 Lover: Go...

Learn More 5 5Aug 24 '23

Upgrade your open source dependencies

TLDR: Infield automates away the toilsome parts of keeping Rails apps up to date. If you've ever run...

Learn More 0 0Jun 28 '23

Once a Maintainer: Josh Branham

This week for Once a Maintainer we talked to Josh Branham, contributor to the popular attr_encrypted...

Learn More 0 0Jun 15 '23

This week's Once a Maintainer features Benji Nguyen of erdtree

https://open.substack.com/pub/onceamaintainer/p/once-a-maintainer-benji-nguyen?r=2773u5&utm_campa...

Learn More 0 0Apr 28 '23