The Geek Speaks

Pulling a user's Letterboxd diary is where it started then things got complicated. Data was the driving force of ACT's features no matter what the product requirements document said, or I wanted. [Read More]

ACT never had a launch-day deploy. By the time it went live, every merged change had already been shipping itself to production. Here’s the pipeline behind that, and the three parts of the plan that didn’t survive contact with production. [Read More]

Claude did. All of it — every route, every migration, every test, every bug fix, every one of those 155 commits. [Read More]

There’s something about being in a room full of people who genuinely care about building something — not just their own thing, but the whole ecosystem — that recalibrates you. [Read More]

I’ve been doing this work for a long time. And if I’m being honest with myself, I’ve been terrible at talking about it. [Read More]