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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. Don't worry, I am working on unblocking this too. But in the meantime, this is the

The three-gems + one npmjs package form engine from my SF Ruby talk grew a SaaS site with a pricing page. Qualified.at gives you tools to create multi-branching forms, extract answers from free-form text using LLM, and ultimately it qualifies your leads w

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. The 1.0 rewrite of my dnsmadeeasy Ruby gem finally embraces it, Terraform-styl

Famous last words: 'How hard can a small intake form be?' Several months and four interconnected open-source gems later, I have achieved peak engineering enlightenment. Here is how Inquirex turns messy free-text into deterministic, typed graph states.

Mermaid exports SVGs that OmniGraffle imports as a diagram of empty boxes. In under an hour I diagnosed why (their SVGs are built for browsers, not native apps) and shipped svg2og - a working Swift CLI - despite never having written a line of Swift in my

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. Here's what it does, the excellent little bugs I stepped on getting there,

Building an app on top of a language model means part of your code now returns a different answer every time you run it. How do you it consistent - and how do you know that any changes you make improve the results? Enter Evals.

This post is a quick introduction to HashiCorp Terraform. We compare the approach to Chef and Puppet, and explain some conceptual differences that could help you migrate from Chef or Puppet to Terraform quicker.

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? Testing against a sample-library workflow that punishes slow drives.

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.