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Tosbourn

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Tosbourn are a Belfast based Ruby development team who care deeply about the web.

Ruby / RailsSecurityWeb development

’15’20’25
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69 from 28 Feb 2011 to 24 Sep 2026
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monthly (11 in the last year)
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2026 10

  1. Removing your website from Google AI Overviews
  2. Filtering select boxes in Active Admin
  3. Adding more display names to Active Admin
  4. Some useful Irish fonts
  5. Dealing with multiple languages with inflections
  6. Threat Intelligence Issue 5
  7. How to fix an issue with LinkedIn in Vivaldi
  8. Security Theatre
  9. Vibe Coding
  10. Is my fly open?

2025 1

  1. Privacy policy and disclosures

2024 2

  1. Decoupling Git and my Jekyll work Reworking how I use Git with Jekyll to allow me to write more freely.
  2. We've deleted an article's worth of unhelpful words We've improved several pages across our site by removing words that add no value, and often detract from the article.

2022 1

  1. Getting Obsidian word count on iOS How to quickly see how many words you have written in Obsidian

2020 2

  1. The main reasons why we shouldn't use click here as link text There are many reasons why we shouldn't use click here or similar as link text, let's go through them
  2. Blog posts are projects not action items Get more blog posts written by treating them as projects instead of action items

2019 1

  1. Tools I Use When Blogging A summary of the tools I use when blogging, updated for 2019

2016 2

  1. What I’ve learned from looking through my old posts Here are some things I’ve learned from looking through lots of old posts of mine
  2. code reviews

2015 7

  1. How to overcome thinking that no one will find your posts useful How to overcome thinking that no one will find your posts useful
  2. 6 Months in and bowing out I am stopping my writing project early. I wanted to write daily for a year but couldn't quite manage it
  3. Quality of your Input and Output I try and prune my inputs as much as possible to keep the quality high
  4. The iPhone is my main content creation computer The iPhone is my main content creation computer, I do lots of stuff on it given how portable and powerful they have become
  5. Some useful resources for generating content ideas Here is a list of resources I found for generating content ideas
  6. A rough guide I am going to try and follow for blog posts Here's my thoughts on how I'm going to form my posts from now on
  7. 365 Articles in 2015 My attempt at averaging writing an article per day in 2015

2014 6

  1. Backup of Making Your Website Pay for Itself A backup of an ebook I wrote on making your website pay for itself
  2. Great content has no shelf life A great example of evergreen content from over 50 years ago
  3. Belfast Bloggers 3rd Meetup My thoughts and feelings on the third Belfast Bloggers Meetup
  4. Packt Publishing Here is a bit of an overview on my dealings with Packt Publishing
  5. Resources for making your website pay for itself Here are a list of resources which will help when getting your website to pay for itself
  6. Problems with Evergreen Content Here are some of the problems that I can see with creating evergreen content

2013 2

  1. A case for writing unit tests for your blog posts Here are some thoughts on writing blog posts and how it relates to code
  2. Good things happen to those that blog Some good things that come from blogging about your work

2011 1

  1. Got an article printed in the IEEE software journal I am very excited to be published in an industry journal

Undated 34

  1. Ruby
  2. Freelancing
  3. Productivity
  4. Web Dev
  5. Team Management
  6. JavaScript
  7. Elixir
  8. Interviews
  9. Css
  10. Accessibility
  11. Reviews
  12. Marketing
  13. Students
  14. Jekyll
  15. Mac
  16. Server Basics
  17. Talk
  18. Git
  19. Email
  20. Slack
  21. Personal
  22. Seo
  23. Command Line
  24. VS Code
  25. Threat Intelligence
  26. View all
  27. View our clients
  28. Rails maintenance
  29. Interim CTO
  30. Ruby development
  31. Short term website support
  32. Work with us
  33. Our policy on AI use
  34. HTML FAQs