Omarchy Review: Seven Weeks, Three Machines, One Verdict
Seven weeks after my first install, I'm keeping Omarchy. What worked on an RTX 3070 desktop, what broke, and what 4.5 RC changes.
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Before You Add an AI Reviewer, Add These Checks
Anthropic's AI code review works because flags and fast rollback sit under it. A small team should first add checks an agent can't talk into a pass.
Anthropic Moved Its Monorepo to Scion. You Shouldn't.
Anthropic built Scion and moved its monorepo off git in five months. Here is why a small team shouldn't copy it, and where to spend the attention instead.
Scheduled Posts in Phoenix With No Database
This site has no database. Here's how a future-dated post stays invisible until its timestamp, and the three places the gate gave the wrong answer anyway.
We Gated the Code and Left the Prose Wide Open
Teams built real review gates around agent-written code. The PR descriptions, design docs, and incident summaries the same agent writes pass through nothing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.