Consistency Is Overrated. Persistence Isn't.
Posting every week is a tool, not the goal. What predicts a public body of work is never fully stopping, one deep topic, and the right things to measure early.
Writing, page 2 of 12
All 138 posts, newest first. The latest are on page 1, and the topic directory groups them by subject.
DHH's Rust Benchmark Measured the Agent, Not Elixir
DHH's Campfire benchmark has Rust far ahead of Elixir and Go. The repos show Rust got 398 commits and 16 merged performance PRs. The others got three.
Where AI Belongs in a One-Person Content Operation
The agent pipeline that runs this blog, stage by stage: where AI is safe because its output is checkable, and where a human has to stay in the loop.
Linux Setup Was a Hazing Ritual. Agents Changed It.
Linux setup used to cost me hours per problem. Six things broke across my two machines, most fixed in minutes with an agent, and two that took longer.
Narrow Front Door, Visible Back Rooms
Going fractional? Get in the door with one narrow problem, then make the rest of your work easy to find, because the engineers who find you pull you into more.
Adding a Newsletter to a Phoenix Site With No Database
This site has no Ecto, no Repo, no database at all. Here's how the newsletter signup works when the system of record is a third-party API, not a table.
Your Personal Brand Is an Attack Surface
Every talk, bio, and commit you publish to build a name is also recon and impersonation fuel. A vCISO's founder-scale checklist for hardening your identity.
I Built the Distribution Tools My Blog Needed
Ten skills my coding agent runs to fact-check drafts and find where my posts stop reaching people, tested on my own site before I sold them.
Elixir Libraries Discord and Supabase Open-Sourced
Discord and Supabase publish Elixir libraries. What each solves, whether it is still maintained in 2026, and whether a small team should depend on it.
Would I Trust Agents to QA My Daily Driver?
Omarchy's new Agentic QA swarm tests every release. I run Omarchy on two machines and update within days. Here's what the design catches, and what it can't.
Who Actually Runs Elixir in Production, Fact-Checked
A viral infographic ranked 15 companies using Elixir by valuation. Fact-checked: nine rows hold up, three are stale or unsupported, four name the wrong system.
DHH's Rails World 2026 Keynote: Pencils Down, Now What
DHH told Rails World 2026 that hand-writing code no longer pays. What he gets right, what Basecamp 5 proves, and who owns the code nobody reads.