Ruby on Rails is Dead (2026 Edition)
Part 1 of a structural critique of Rails in 2026: the magic that made Rails dominant also became an architectural cage for the stateful, real-time web.
Writing on software design, AI and startups.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Dear Codebase: A Letter From Your Coding Agent
Ten requests from an agent to the codebase it works in — local reasoning, visible boundaries, one way of doing things. None of them are new. All of them matter more now.
Why I Open-Sourced My Hardened *arr Stack (and What Most Compose Files Get Wrong)
Most self-hosted *arr compose files are ticking time bombs: flat networks, fake kill switches, no health checks. Here is how I built one that actually holds up.