Software engineer
I build web and mobile products with Ruby on Rails and React Native, and I write about testing, design patterns, and how AI is changing the way I ship software.
Dependabot is great at opening pull requests and terrible at telling you which ones matter. On my side project, a Rails app I build outside my day job, it opens a handful every week. I used to click through them one by one. Now I type /maintain-dependabot-prs in the Claude panel in VS Code and read a table. This post...
Ask an AI “what features should I add?” and you usually get a list that could fit any app: dark mode, a mobile app, AI-powered insights. I asked...
I use Claude for two kinds of coding: my day job, on my employer’s team plan, and a school administration platform I build as a side project, on...
The message I send most often to Claude Code is five words long: “PR looks good, merge it.” That sounds like rubber-stamping, but it’s actually the end of...
For months I used Claude Code the way most people do: open a session, explain what I wanted, watch it work, correct it, and explain the same things...
According to their website Sidekiq is an efficient background processing for Ruby. It says Ruby but you can also use it in Rails and it even has a...
Since I discovered the world of testing and TDD I’ve loved the philosophy behind it and the safety net that it brings. My first interaction with testing was...
The seventh and last blog post in the series of Software Design Patterns it’s an interesting one, it’s the Builder Pattern. The builder patter is a unique pattern...
In the sixth installment of the Software Design Patterns blog series I’ll talk about the Strategy Pattern. This pattern is interesting because it allows the consumer of this...