Blog

2026

• Sep 26 Rethinking simplicity in the age of AI
• Jul 24 The favicon survived the web
• Jul 23 AI will not stop at simple work
• Jul 23 The hard way has changed
• Jul 22 Programming experience is no longer a moat
• Jul 7 I built Flag Click
• Jun 23 The artificial programmer
• May 20 Stick with defaults
• May 11 The magic of typing terminal commands
• Apr 15 AI will help you climb the wrong ladder faster
• Apr 8 Less decoration, more communication
• Jan 1 What 2026 yields (announcing Telesink)

2025

• Dec 22 How to self-host Bearlytics with Kamal
• Dec 21 I'm back to Open Source
• Dec 14 English is a poor language for programming with AI
• Nov 26 AI amplifies programmers, not replaces them
• Sep 27 A mere add_foreign_key can wipe out your whole Rails+SQLite production table
• Aug 21 Why do software developers love complexity?
• Aug 17 I'm a proud CRUD monkey
• Aug 7 Not everything needs an update
• Jul 10 AI will take your job (and your boss’s job too)
• Jul 2 I vibe-coded Tech Debt: a game written in pure HTML/CSS/JS
• Jun 15 Your idea probably sucks
• May 1 How the pay-once business model saved my *aaS
• Mar 28 Learn to code, ignore AI, then use AI to code even better
• Feb 27 You know how it ends
• Feb 9 OKLCH CSS variables for Tailwind v4 colors
• Jan 22 The vertical bar (|) is the best HTML page title separator

2024

• Nov 24 How to build a dropdown menu with just HTML
• Nov 17 Hyperlinks existed before the web
• Nov 17 How Counter-Strike introduced me to the world of programming
• Nov 15 How to self-host Plausible Analytics with Kamal
• Oct 30 There's no place for Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Oct 25 Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front?
• Oct 23 Writing software is like spreading butter on bread
• Sep 27 Notes from the Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson at Rails World 2024
• Aug 7 How to add Mission Control to your Rails app and protect it with Basic Auth
• Jul 18 I built a flag-matching game in 6 days
• Jun 2 How to build and deploy a Telegram bot with Kamal
• Mar 31 Cloudflare Tunnel: a free ngrok alternative for exposing local Rails apps to the internet
• Mar 20 Coffee World Rush: a leaderboard for coffee drinkers all around the world
• Feb 21 I built a word-matching game called Matcharoo
• Feb 20 Using Overmind with Foreman as a fallback for Rails 7.1+ apps
• Feb 16 How to generate sitemap.xml for your Rails 7.1+ app with Kamal
• Jan 21 How to enable the Traefik dashboard in a Rails 7.1 app deployed with Kamal
• Jan 21 How to opt out of the cache with Hotwire's Turbo Drive in Rails
• Jan 17 Making PostgreSQL work with Kamal and a new Rails 7.1 app
• Jan 8 How to run your Turbo Native Android app on a physical device locally

2023

• Nov 8 Embarking on an indie dev journey

2018

• Jun 21 Untangling the “love” Ruby tongue twister

2015

• May 23 A bit of bacon, lettuce and tomato

2014

• Dec 31 Ruby's exception to message mapper

2013

• Dec 15 JavaScript eval tricks
• Aug 24 Ruby eval tricks
• Aug 13 Various ways to count digits in a Ruby integer
• Aug 9 Blocks in Ruby are always there
• Aug 2 How to safely enter passwords in a terminal
• Jul 15 How to say “I love you” in Ruby
• Jul 3 Pulling through a Ruby exception
• Jun 3 Difference between frozen Ruby objects across versions
• May 30 So what is “binding.pry” exactly?