Rest-Driven Development

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Jujutsu VCS

Make Your Vcs Fly With Jujutsu

I am always attracted by new tools that promise to make my life easier. I recently started using Jujutsu, a version control system that makes your git workflow much more flexible.

May 21, 2026 · 3 min
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Disconnected: One Day Working Without the Internet

What does it feel like to work without the internet in 2026? Circumstances got me unplugged myself for a day, leaving me with a flaky 5G connection to rely on.

May 16, 2026 · 6 min

Opening the Mind of a Thinking Agent

Reflecting on my experience of using AI agents for coding, I start wondering what is really hiding behind the concept of a "thinking agent". Time to take a look inside its brain…​

May 12, 2026 · 4 min

Zed Turtle Extension

I have just released the first version of a Zed extension for the Turtle format.

May 19, 2025 · 3 min

An introduction to Barley, the fast model serializer

How I built and open-sourced Barley, a fast and simple model serializer gem for Rails, born from real-world performance needs and benchmarked against the best in the Ruby ecosystem.

May 6, 2025 · 8 min

Set up Ghost with Podman on a VPS

A step-by-step walkthrough for running Ghost on a VPS using Podman quadlets backed by Systemd, with MySQL and Caddy as a reverse proxy.

May 6, 2025 · 3 min

Working For Your Manager’s Success

Estimates are inevitable in software development, but committing to deadlines — like a mechanic does — requires honesty with your manager rather than optimism to impress them.

March 18, 2025 · 5 min

From Chaos to Clarity: My Journey with ADHD, TickTick, and PARA

How I use TickTick and the PARA method to manage ADHD and transform daily chaos into a structured, productive second brain.

December 16, 2024 · 6 min

Track and debug your ActiveRecord SQL queries with annotations

Embed contextual comments directly into your SQL queries using ActiveRecord’s annotate method, making log analysis and debugging far easier.

December 10, 2024 · 3 min

Ruby Best Practices - Method Arguments

Simple rules for ordering Ruby method arguments — put optional arguments last, and switch to keyword arguments when you have more than one optional parameter.

January 12, 2024 · 2 min
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