Install Rails on Your Mac with Claude Code
A 90-minute guide from a fresh Mac to a production-grade Rails app, generated by Claude Code. No development experience required.
Writing on Rails, AI-assisted development, and what machines can't create.
Articles on code craft, architecture, and the human judgment that separates working software from software that lasts.
The Middle Loop
ThoughtWorks identified a new category of engineering work between coding and delivery. Nobody has named it yet. I've been doing it.
Why Ruby Is the Best Language for AI-Assisted Development
Ruby is the fastest, cheapest, and most token-efficient language for AI coding agents. Here's the data.
First Principles
Constraints as understanding — why working within limits produces the deepest insight.
Only Record What You Want to Hear
Signal over noise — why the domain model matters more than the library layer.
Gambit
Strategic sacrifice — accepting complexity now for positional advantage later.
The Practice
Embodied mastery vs. pattern-matching — AI as collaborator, not replacement.
The Crumbling Codebase
Technical debt as physical decay — and the energy required to reverse it.
Entropy, or Why the Pile Keeps Growing
Why every codebase drifts toward disorder — and what to do about it.
An Artist’s Lens on Software Development
Trained perception — what reduced listening teaches you about reading code.