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TL;DR

Kicked off the year by closing another small but important dependency update.
Issue 4-11 continues to move forward with clean, low-risk upgrades and a stable CI baseline.

What I worked on

Today’s focus was finishing a piece of Issue 4-11 (Dependency & CI Hygiene):

  • Updated jbuilder from 2.13.0 to 2.14.1
  • Verified the change was lockfile-only
  • Ran the full test suite locally
  • Confirmed CI stayed green
  • Squash & merged the PR cleanly

Nothing flashy — exactly how dependency work should feel.

Why this matters

This kind of work doesn’t add features, but it reduces future pain.

Small, incremental dependency bumps:

  • Lower the risk of surprise breakage later
  • Keep security tooling effective
  • Make eventual Ruby and Rails upgrades far less dramatic

Doing this steadily means I’m never staring at a massive “update everything” fire drill.

What I learned

Stability isn’t an accident — it’s the result of boring, repeatable habits.
Lockfile-only upgrades with tight CI feedback loops are worth the discipline.

What’s next

Still inside Issue 4-11:

  • Knock out the remaining low-risk dependency bumps (starting with brakeman)
  • Leave higher-ripple updates (pg, puma) for last
  • Keep Ruby and Rails upgrades explicitly out of scope for now

Slow, steady, and green. That’s the goal.

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