Notes

Localebot is a GitHub App that finds untranslated strings in a pull request, lets translators and an AI model fill them in, and opens a second PR with the result. It reads existing locale files and keeps almost no state of its own. Read →

Jev has built up hype for its speed and classification approach. Here is what it does, what it doesn't, and how it performed on my task prefill test. Read →

Action Controller has shipped a rate_limit filter since Rails 7.2. It's a before_action over a cache counter, and for login forms and password resets it covers what most apps pulled in a gem for. Read →

Heavy note apps add friction. I built FireNotes as a minimal browser extension that syncs across devices using native WebExtension storage. Read →

Introducing a new toolchain into a product I'm shipping adds nothing to that product, so I never get to evaluate anything at work. Personal projects are the only place I do, and this time the thing under evaluation was Vite+. Read →

Email verification and password resets get re-implemented in every codebase. Most approaches add schema clutter or JWT machinery when Rails has a built-in solution. Read →

A VPN hides your location, but file metadata leaves fingerprints everywhere. I built scrubfs to strip metadata on read without modifying original files. Read →

Browsers won't open an insecure WebSocket from an HTTPS page, and a secure one needs a certificate they already trust. Getting one onto a Pi at a private address came down to a single decision: the Pi runs its own Wi-Fi. Read →

Handling a three-tier model hierarchy in one request often leads to hand-rolled loops that get messy. Rails has solved this natively since version 2.3. Read →