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RuboCop 1.89: Project-Wide Analysis with Rubydex

RuboCop 1.89 is out, and it comes with the usual assortment of new cops and bug fixes. But there’s one theme running through this release that I’m particularly excited about, and that’s what I want to...

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Here's exactly why consultants are paid to do their thing. Only a fraction of SaaS companies have dedication, resources, and knowledge to expand their lifecycle marketing in a systemic way. Also, who makes comments this long and awesome?

I will likely not buy from you if you have a free or cheap price and I can’t explain how you can make money and make it sustainable.

Did you know that the Split Test node isn't just for A/B tests? It's a random group generator, splitting users into up to 5 paths at whatever percentages you choose. Split testing is the obvious use: create different user journeys, then compare using email metrics or conversion goals. Classic.

What makes a perfect welcome email? (hundreds of companies still obsess about a single email, while forgetting about the rest of their lifecycle) But seriously?

As a metalhead who likes to play the drums (but is intermediate level… at best), most of the music I love and listen to is way too hard for me to play 😩 This week I stumbled upon transcription for Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson, and I'm having way too much fun with it than I care to admit 🤣

This January we offered a review call to all paying customers, and most people who replied were newly added team members. They didn't know much about @userlist.com, or what's happening in their accounts. This blew our mind. So we set up a simple workflow (took me 15 minutes).

Working from home in a fully remote company means that I don’t have a commute 😎 That’s great… but it also means that there isn’t a good time to “wind down” 😵‍💫 However, I realized cooking dinner is my way to do this these days 👨‍🍳

Upgrade Rails immediately, kids, this is a big one. github.com/rails/rails/...

Possible arbitrary file read and remote code execution in Active Storage variant processing

### Impact In its default configuration, a Rails application that displays image variants may allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from the server, including the process envi...

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Features we're adding to @userlist.com's new theme editor, that nobody will ever appreciate, but make me very happy: When saving theme schemas, server side validations will render inline in the embedded code editor 🤩

"Now that I have user onboarding in place, what else can I do?" Your best next step is: a workflow for your paying customers. It runs at a slow pace (every 1-2 weeks) and combines educational content, feature nudges, and customer loyalty interventions (asking for referrals, reviews, etc).

Software companies overthink email marketing in the same way we overthink social media. A single post won’t impact your LinkedIn account. A hundred of them might. A single email won’t impact your growth. A hundred of them might. Zero emails… Safe bet. #bdtpblurbs #emailmarketing

My co-founder @uibreakfast.com and I are "recovering perfectionists". To remind us to not chase perfection for forever, we established "Better Done Than Perfect" as our mantra. It went as far as naming our podcast after it, creating merch with the slogan on it, and her getting a "b.d.t.p." tattoo.

Getting my feet wet with Terraform and AWS so we potentially, maybe, can migrate off of Heroku… Still a bit intimidated by the thought (and the complexity), but also intrigued by the new possibilities 👀

When writing classes in Ruby, I've always been leaning towards minimal interfaces, and exposing as little as internal state as possible 🔒 This week, for the first time in my 20+ year career of writing Ruby, I went a bit further and changed a class to freeze itself after initialization 🧊

see indie hackers make this mistake all the time. The advice is: solve your own problem, then find more people like you. The problem? You probably wouldn't pay $50/month to solve that problem, so people like you probably won't either.

On the last episode of Slow & Steady, I talked about why it's important to remind people of who you are when emailing your list after being quiet for a while. People will just forget you. Quickly. You have to be very explicit to help them remember.

Time delays in @userlist.com now support advanced calendar settings. E.g. the 10th of the month, the first Monday, or the second Tuesday in March. Now you can send messages related to billing cycles, monthly check-ins, or annual reminders landing on a specific day. Give it a try in your workflows.

One unexpected side effect of adding full WYSIWYG editing to Userlist: We now have fairly decent support for right-to-left languages in our editor 😊

Starting Userlist merch production with my nieces 🤣

The hardest part of improving existing features is figuring out a smooth transition path from the old to the new way of doing things so there are no interruptions in production 🙈

Customer facing thing we worked on lately that nobody will ever actively notice: Improved server side validation for conditions, recurring rules, and workflow tree nodes 🙃

We're in year 9 of working on @userlist.com and some days it feels like we're way behind on our goals and ambitions 🥵 However, if you'd told my old self from back when we're started about where we're at now, my mind would've be blown 🤯

Still can't find time to set up your lifecycle emails? We're stoked to announce a new lineup of done-for-you services at @userlist.com 🔥 We refreshed the existing packages that have been running for years, and added a few new ones. Check'em out: userlist.com/services/

Struggling a bit on how to implement a "password confirmation" for sensitive actions in our app. The front-end is an SPA, the backend API only, and we've got a separate auth server. They're all tied together via OAuth 2.0 🔐

Small but useful @userlist.com update from @benediktdeicke.com. You can now edit user (and company) properties manually from the profile page. Previously, this was done via integration sync. With this, Userlist can cover more of your CRM workflow, with custom fields editable on the spot. Woot 🙌

been seeing so much of this kind chatter around how LLMs are affecting software teams. not sure we have enough empirical data, but this analysis does make sense to me https://agileotter.blogspot.com/2026/06/draft-faros-whiplash-and-systems-view.html

"Hello [FIRST_NAME]" gets boring fast. That's why we've collected a ton of email greeting and salutation examples over on the Userlist blog 👀 userlist.com/blog/saas-email-...

Salutations and Greetings in SaaS Email Marketing: 50+ Examples

The greeting line is the first thing your recipient reads, setting the tone for the rest of your email.

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We're currently working on getting full WYSIWYG to our message editor, so it actually renders the email inside the selected theme while editing the content, not just when previewing 💅 There have been a few challenges, but we're close to getting it shipped. And it's a massive step in terms of UX 🤯

A couple of things I wish we'd have done differently in Userlist's codebase: Allow accounts to have multiple workspaces, enforcing data types on data ingestion, and partitioning a couple of our largest stables right away 🙈 I'm sure we'll get to all of them eventually, it's just a lot harder now 😬