Hands-Free Claude Code: How I Ship Features With Wispr Flow and a Game Controller
My hands-free Claude Code Desktop workflow — Wispr Flow for voice input, an 8BitDo Micro controller for approvals. No keyboard, no mouse, just shipping features.
Ruby on Rails Performance: 7 Lessons from Scaling FirstPromoter
Real-world Rails performance lessons from scaling an affiliate platform handling 35M+ requests per week and 10M payment webhooks. Counter caching, N+1 fixes, Redis, Sidekiq, BigQuery, and more.
What Happens When Your API Has to Open a Door
Building software at ROOM that controls physical locks, tracks IoT sensors, and manages office spaces — the weird problems you don't get in pure SaaS.
What 2018 Taught Me About Building Software
Lessons from a year of shipping products, growing as a developer, and figuring out that writing code is only part of the job.
We Built a Bike Security App in 24 Hours
How Emil and I built LockHere at the Techsylvania hackathon — a mobile app that alerts you when someone touches your bike.
Why I Keep Choosing Ruby on Rails
I just started my first job as a Rails developer. Here's why I picked it and what I think about the framework so far.