Thoughts & travels
Notes on what I’m building, the gear I keep, and the trips I take when I step away from the screen.
Getting My Data Out of One Basket
For more than ten years I kept my whole digital life inside two companies, and called it convenience. Then I read about someone who lost every photo they owned when Google closed their account over...
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Getting My Data Out of One Basket
For more than ten years I kept my whole digital life inside two companies, and called it convenience. Then I read about someone who lost every photo they own...
Real Approval Workflows in Rails: The Use Cases That Made Me Build Signoff
Every serious Rails app eventually needs records that can't just be created or updated: they need a human to review and sign off. Here are the concrete use c...
Why I Chose a CASIO G-Shock Over a Smartwatch
I spend my whole working day looking at screens. The last thing I want strapped to my wrist is a fifth one. Here is why my daily watch is a CASIO G-Shock GW-...
Building an Error Monitoring Tool Without Pricing Overages
Picture the worst version of a Tuesday. You ship a deploy, a downstream API starts timing out, and your retry logic turns one failure into forty. A single br...
Trip to Udupi
A photo journal from Udupi: coastal beaches, St. Mary's Islands, the Varanga Lake Jain Temple, and endless paddy fields.