Ruby Native needs to work with ERB, React, and Vue. That’s three frameworks, three sets of conventions, and three ways developers expect an API to feel. And every new feature needs to ship across all of them without breaking the … Read more
My wife is the politically active one in our house. She’s the person who shows up: rallies, election day volunteering, local organization meetings, city council sessions. She does the work. I’m a software engineer (she is too, but she’s more … Read more
TL;DR: it’s an Elixir app using Phoenix server side rendered pages, with the blog post pages generated from Markdown using NimblePublisher. It’s running on a self-hosted Dokploy instance running on Hetzner, with bunny.net as a CDN sitting in front of … Read more
I wanted to switch my home network to IPv6 only design. However the reality is still that there are lot of devices today that only support IPv4 and large parts of Internet are still IPv4 only. Because of this, many … Read more
Describing the design is only half of RTL work. The other half is debugging it. The bug that really sold me on this workflow showed up in translucent overlays and text. Most of the frame looked correct, but small clusters … Read more
The shell sits in front of a lot of my work, but I mostly use it for the outcome: running unix commands and scripts, creating branches and making commits. Unlike when I’m writing code, I’m rarely thinking about how the … Read more
Introduction Back when flash storage was still very expensive, miniature hard drives offered a much better cost-per-gigabyte ratio. As IBM and later Hitachi produced the well-known 1-inch CompactFlash-form-factor microdrives, followed by Seagate, Western Digital, and GS Magicstor. From HotChips 13 … Read more
Procedural medieval islands from 4,100 hex tiles, built with WebGPU and a lot of backtracking. Run the live demo · Source code on GitHub Every map is different. Every map is seeded and deterministic. I’ve been obsessed with procedural maps … Read more
When I decided to build my startup on European infrastructure, I thought it would be a straightforward swap. Ditch AWS, pick some EU providers, done. How hard could it be? Turns out: harder than expected. Not impossible, I did it, … Read more
The privilege of working on products for developers and giving back to the open source community. Also I enjoy working as part of the team of very seasoned engineers; I never feel stagnant and I always feel challenged to become … Read more