Martin Emde

A bag made of wicker in the shape of a black flamingo.

What would it look like if we viewed agent sessions through RSS?

What would it look like if we viewed agent sessions through RSS?

The Apple Upgrade program is more complicated than it looks.

Give Away Elon's Money — A trillion dollars, a thousand squares, and a list of real sourced prices for fixing things.

Apple Upgrade Broken Down — Pick a phone, choose your trade-in, and watch the costs of leasing, buying, and financing add up as you make upgrade and repair decisions.

I used to be really good at editing code.

Dim Sum Scorer — Score tracker for Sushi Go!

Loan Calculator — Compare loans side by side.

Today, I noticed I could no longer find the Slash commands documentation that I was using.

At Gusto we have some big repositories.

What if you could have that sick Ghostty CRT effect but only on unfocused windows, or a rad flaming cursor highlight but only once when you focused the window?

Ghostty Shaders — A Ghostty shader emulator using WebGL.

I notice that the blue bar at the top of the Ghostty terminal can do more than just bounce back and forth (like it does in Claude Code).

Toy LLM — A Toy LLM proof-of-concept that uses only canned phrases to respond safely but still coherently.

LLM FIM Tester — A Fill-In-The-Middle tester for large language models powered by OpenRouter.

I still remember a code review I received early in my career.

A common complaint about the usage of AI coding agents is the burden it places on code reviewers.

RubyGems & Bundler — Former team lead and core maintainer of RubyGems.

dotfiles — I got nerdsniped into caring about my dotfiles and changed my whole dev environment.

BanchoBox — A companion app for Dave the Diver.

Tossball — The Outer Worlds 2: Pitchball & Tossball Card checklist.

Vibe coding is allowing a new category of junior programmers to emerge from unlikely places.

Vibe coding is allowing a new category of junior programmers to emerge from unlikely places.

On September 9, without warning, Ruby Central kicked out the maintainers who have cared for Bundler and RubyGems for over a decade.

don't put all your gems in one basket The former team from rubygems.org is excited to announce a new gem server for the Ruby community: https://gem.coop Right now, the current versions of RubyGems and Bundler work with this new server.

After updating RubyGems.org to use the new params.expect feature in Rails 8, I thought it might be helpful to go over a few of the challenges I ran into.

In this post I will describe the new params.expect feature that I recently added to Rails 8 and go over how it works and how to use it.