Aaron Breckenridge’s Blog

Six weeks ago I wrote about my Rails workflow — devcontainers, Claude Code on the host, MCP servers, a Go binary for team onboarding.

I’ve settled into a workflow over the last couple of months that I’m pretty happy with.

My repository of questions I can use during interviews to gauge the viability of a collaboration.

I have a subdomain for a while that’s secured for free via certbot, but I was still manually refreshing the certificate every 45 days because that subdomain also runs an Nginx proxy.

Last updated February 3, 2026.

I’ve been asked a few times over the years how to break into software development as a career.