Zil Norvilis

Full-Stack Developer with a love for Ruby on Rails and Hotwire. Available for Hire.

Lithuania Joined on Mar 18, 2020 zilasino27@gmail.com https://devblog.launchzilla.net/

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 14

Meet Vessel: The "Scrapy" of the Ruby World

#ruby #scraping #automation #webdev

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 13

Testing the Unstable: How to Write Tests for Scrapers

#ruby #rails #testing #scraping

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 12

Enterprise Web Scraping in Ruby: Bypassing Anti-Bots and Scaling Infrastructure

#ruby #scraping #architecture #webdev

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 11

Rails on iOS/Android: Can You Build a "Real" App with Hotwire Native?

#rails #hotwire #ios #android

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 10

The $0 Infrastructure: Launching a Rails SaaS for Free in 2026

#rails #startup #devops #beginners

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 9

Fire Your DevOps Team: A Solo Dev’s Guide to Kamal 2

#devops #rails #docker #deployment

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 8

Goodbye Webpack: The Zen of Rails Importmaps

#rails #javascript #webdev #productivity

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 7

Stop Building Microservices: A Defense of the Monolith for Indie Hackers

#discuss #rails #architecture #startup

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 6

SEO Strategy: Putting Your Blog at the Root and Your App on a Subdomain

#rails #seo #webdev #architecture

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 5

The Best Ways to Build a Blog in Rails 8: From Markdown to Action Text

#rails #ruby #webdev #productivity

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 4

SQLite is All You Need: The "One-Person Stack" for 2026

#rails #sqlite #architecture #performance

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 3

From Writer to Editor-in-Chief: AI, Rails, and the Death of "How-To"

#rails #ai #career #webdev

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 2

Hotwire vs. React: A Guide for the "One-Person Framework"

#rails #react #hotwire #spa

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Feb 1

Devise to Custom Auth: It’s Not Just `has_secure_password

#rails #devise #auth #ruby

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 31

The Dangerous Elegance of ActiveRecord::Store

#rails #architecture #sql #designpatterns

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 30

RIP "There's a Gem for That": How AI Flipped the Script

#discuss #ruby #ai #webdev

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 29

Stimulus.js Crash Course: Build a "Copy to Clipboard" Feature in 5 Minutes

#ruby #rails #stimulus #selfnote

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 28

Hotwire Decoded: When to use Frames vs. Streams

#ruby #rails #hotwire #selfnote

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 27

Goodbye Redis? The Rise of Solid Queue in Rails 8

#ruby #rails #solidqueue #selfnote

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 26

You Don't Need Devise: Building Secure Rails Auth from Scratch

#ruby #rails #authentication #selfnote

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 25

Mock It ’Til You Make It: Testing External APIs Without Losing Your Mind

#ruby #test #mock #api

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 24

The 4 Best Features of Ruby 4.0

#ruby #programming #selfnote

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 23

5 Ways to Find High-Impact Ruby and Rails Projects to Contribute to Today

#ruby #rails #opensource #github

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 20

Implementing Copy-to-Clipboard in Rails 8: The Modern Way

#rails #stimulus #javascript #ruby

2 min read

Zil Norvilis

Jan 19

PostgreSQL on Arch Linux: From Zero to Running in 5 Minutes

#postgres #archlinux #linux #tutorial

4 min read

Zil Norvilis

Jan 18

Arch Linux Running Slow? Here's How to Actually Fix It

#archlinux #linux #selfnote

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 17

Stop Redeploying for Config Changes: The 5-Minute Rails Key-Value Store

#rails #ruby #programming #selfnote

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 16

The Set-and-Forget Guide to Rails App Versioning

#ruby #programming #oop #selfnote

2 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 15

Using Ruby Model Classes, Service Objects and Interactors

#ruby #datatransferobject #webdev #programming

5 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 15

Clean Up Your Service Objects with Data.define and Pattern Matching

#ruby #programming #oop #selfnote

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 14

Move Over, Struct: Meet Ruby's New Data.define

#ruby #programming #oop #selfnote

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Nov 14 '25

Ruby PORO Explained: How Plain Old Ruby Objects Make Your Code Better

#ruby #programming #rails #webdev

1 min read

Zil Norvilis

Jun 11 '25

How Blockchains Determine Who the Owner of a Wallet is?

#cryptocurrency #blockchain #web3

1 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jun 17 '22

Understanding The Magic of ActiveRecord

#rails #entities #activerecord #database

3 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Jan 13 '22

How to Add ToS Agreement Checkbox to Your Rails App using Devise?

#rails #devise #ruby #tutorial

2 min read

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Zil Norvilis

Oct 11 '21

My Best VSCode Productivity Tips, Shortcuts and Tricks

#vscode #extension #productivity #tips

2 min read

Zil Norvilis

Oct 10 '21

Configure LiveReload on Rails 6

#rails #livereload #tutorial #install

2 min read