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I've been shipping at a genuinely ridiculous pace lately, and somewhere in there I stopped being an engineer and became the bottleneck in a twenty-person team of AI agents.

The three-gems + one npmjs package form engine from my SF Ruby talk grew a SaaS site with a pricing page.

Hundreds of companies sell DNS, yet almost none can import another provider's export, even though the standard interchange format has existed since the eighties: the zone file.

Famous last words: 'How hard can a small intake form be?'

Mermaid exports SVGs that OmniGraffle imports as a diagram of empty boxes.

A small Rust CLI that lets your team commit encrypted secrets straight into git, with the private key locked inside your Mac's Secure Enclave and released only by your fingerprint.

Building an app on top of a language model means part of your code now returns a different answer every time you run it.

This post is a quick introduction to HashiCorp Terraform.

Real-world read/write benchmarks pitting the Samsung X5 against the SanDisk Extreme PRO V2 — nearly 2x the price, but is it actually twice as fast?

Weighing velocity, scalability, maintainability, staffing, and community against what Rails actually delivers in 2021 — with HEY's stack as a case study — to answer whether Rails is still the right choice, or just the comfortable one.

A simplified, story-estimation-centric take on Agile/SCRUM distilled from five-plus years running engineering at Wanelo — sprint planners, design breakouts, daily stand-ups, retros, a consistent point system, and the common planning mistakes that sink most

This post details how to use dry-cli gem to create multi-command and sub-command CLI tools, and how to test them using RSpec and Aruba.

Test your understanding of how Ruby 3 Concurrency works with these two simple multiple-choice questions.

Overview of Bazel support in IntelliJ Family of products, and instructions on how to build the plugin from sources.

In this post we'll explore some of the things that a beginner C++ programmers (but not general beginner programmers) might find useful in getting quickly up to speed.

In this short post I describe the read-only file system issue that happened to one of our C5 hosts, and how we fixed it.

Most of us are familiar with the concept of application secrets, how important it is is not to commit those to your version control system, and how challenging it is to distribute development and production secrets across the dev team in a consistent and,…

This gem implements a flexible time-ordered activity feeds commonly used within social networking applications.

With this post, I'd like to start a series of *DevOps*-related conversations about building distributed applications (read: common web-apps).

MixMax enhances, enriches, extends (EEE!)

In this exciting and informative talk, presented at PgConf Silicon Valley 2015, Konstantin cut through the theory to deliver a clear set of practical solutions for scaling applications atop PostgreSQL, eventually supporting millions of active users, tens…

In this post I'll share a method that I use to connect to a Serial port of any Arduino I am using at any given moment.

Recent versions of cheap Arduino clones have been coming out with a different USB/Serial chip, which replaces the usual FTDI.

LaserCutter & MakeABox.io — its a ruby gem and a website for making PDF designs of laser-cut boxes, which fit/snap in together at all edges using tabs that go in and out.

Occupus (formerly BORAT: Bathroom Occupancy Remote Awareness Technology) – is an Arduino-based restroom occupancy detection and rapid notification system based on a network of nRF24L01+ 2.4GHz RF radios.

Review of Arduino IDE Alternatives.

Back Seat Driver is a library for programming autonomous (or not) Arduino based robots.

In this exciting and informative talk, presented at PgConf Silicon Valley 2015, Konstantin cut through the theory to deliver a clear set of practical solutions for scaling applications atop PostgreSQL, eventually supporting millions of active users, tens…

With any Rails app that evolves along with substantial user growth and active feature development, pretty soon a moment comes when there appears to be a decent amount of tangled logic, AKA technical debt.

In this post, I'll go over some of our settings in postgresql.conf, which have been adjusted for high-performance/throughput and large RAM sizes.

In this post I share the story of overcoming a massive scalability bottleneck from too many writes ino the Analytics database table used for Event collection, using Vertical Sharding.

In this post we share the details of what we did and what we learned, in case someone out there ever finds themselves in a similar situation, weighing the risks of either working with a legacy stack or going full steam ahead with a rewrite.