John Nunemaker

I build software and software businesses. These days that means Box Out Sports and Very Good Software — home of Fireside and Flipper. Before that I spent seven years at GitHub making things go fast. I created HTTParty, Flipper, and a pile of other open source. I write here about programming, performance, and running small software companies.

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Oct 29, 2026Don't Make a Human Do What AI Is Amazing At
Oct 1, 2026The Friday Deploy: Changing the Wheels While the Car Is Moving
Oct 1, 2026YAGNI: Camping Chair Development
Aug 26, 2026The Hallway Track: Why AI Rewards People Who Already Have Taste
Jun 1, 2026Code with Jason: People Buy From People
Mar 19, 2026IndieRails Podcast: The Conductor
Mar 5, 2026Rails Business Podcast (again)
Jan 30, 2026Conducting Rails
Jan 23, 2026Rooted & Reaching Podcast Interview
Oct 13, 2025What makes you different
Oct 1, 2025Self-Made is a Myth Podcast
May 29, 2025Giant Robots
Apr 15, 2025Rails Business Podcast
Jan 22, 2025Ruby on Rails Podcast: Taking over Fireside.fm
Jan 9, 2025Episode #4
Dec 31, 2024Episode #3
Dec 17, 2024Episode #2
Dec 12, 2024Episode #1
Nov 28, 2024Shrinking a Postgres Table
Oct 11, 2024Founder Quest: Acquiring Fireside
Oct 10, 2024The Moneyball approach
Oct 9, 2024Code and the Coding Coders who Code it
Oct 1, 2024How to Find a Business Partner
Sep 27, 2024Acquiring Fireside
May 27, 2024Founder Quest: Writing and Content Marketing for Devs
May 22, 2024Founder Quest: RailsConf Recap
May 16, 2024RailsConf 2024
Apr 16, 2024Cushion vs Flow
Feb 13, 2024Maintainable: How Scary is this Change?
Jan 26, 2024Ruby Rogues: Flipper Cloud and the Future of Feature Flags

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