Writing

2026

• From Gatekeepers to Guardrails Oct 2026
• Diversify your stack Oct 2026
• Embracing the Personal Software era Aug 2026
• Optimize for Humans not Robots Aug 2026
• The projects that didn't ship May 2026
• The 5-Layer LLM Review Burrito Apr 2026
• New: Expandly.app -- text expansion for your Mac Feb 2026
• New: Checkset - a Ruby gem for repeatable verifications using Playwright. Feb 2026
• New: @afomera/s3-mcp an S3-compatible MCP server Feb 2026
• Own your LLM's Output Feb 2026
• Using Conductor.build with Ruby on Rails Feb 2026
• This is a post about AI Jan 2026

2025

• Stop Giving Harm a Microphone Oct 2025
• Hanami after one week Oct 2025
• the elephant in the room Sep 2025
• Introducing Spin (alpha) Feb 2025

2024

• 2024 Year in Review Dec 2024
• Why (and when!) I use ViewComponents Nov 2024
• Relief Sep 2024
• Building Taddly - A focus timer for macOS Jun 2024
• Hello Burnout, is that you? May 2024
• Novelty Apr 2024

2023

• 2023 year in review Dec 2023
• Building a real-time user page detector Aug 2023
• 2023 International Transgender Day of Visibility Mar 2023
• The Heart That Hurts Feb 2023

2022

• Turning 30 - 2022 year in review Dec 2022
• Combined Mentions with ActionText (Part 2) Oct 2022
• Combined Mentions with ActionText (Part 1) Oct 2022
• Adding an app theme selector with TailwindCSS Aug 2022
• Perspective May 2022
• "What's in my sabbatical?" May 2022
• Current.updates #=> February 2022 Feb 2022

2021

• 2021 Year in Review Dec 2021
• The absence of flame (a burnout story) Dec 2021
• Becoming the main character in my story Oct 2021
• How to Deploy Ruby on Rails to Render.com Apr 2021

2020

• 2020 Year in Review Dec 2020
• January 2020 - First update of the year Jan 2020

2019

• Turning 27 - 2019 Year in review Dec 2019
• Moving on from Alabama - Part 2 Jul 2019
• Moving on from Alabama - Part 1 May 2019
• RailsConf 2019 May 2019
• Experience: Upgrading to Rails 5 Feb 2019

2016

• Twilio Two Way Messaging May 2016

2015

• Using Rails secrets.yml Jul 2015