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Engineering insights and indie adventures. Documenting builds, optimizations, and lessons learned from systems architecture to product development across the full technology stack.

2025-08-04 Development 5 min read

Let It Crash — Turning Failure into Your Most Reliable Signal

Thirteen failed releases reminded me that embracing errors beats prediction. Discover how the Erlang "let it crash" mindset rescued my CI/CD pipeline and the one-line Bash fix that did it.

#erlang #let it crash #ci/cd #automation #bash #rust #cargo #error handling #devops #ai development #philosophy #reliability
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2025-07-25 Development 3 min read

Bridging Rust and TypeScript with zod_gen – End-to-End Type Safety at Cimatic

Solving type drift between Rust backends and TypeScript frontends with automatic code generation. Two open-source crates that generate Zod schemas and TypeScript types directly from Rust structs.

#rust #typescript #zod #type-safety #open source #cimatic #web development #code generation #developer tools
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2025-07-17 Development 8 min read

Vibe Coding is Cheap, Show Me The Demo: How I Code with Playwright UI as My Co-Pilot

In the era of AI-generated code, vibe coding has made writing code effortless but proving it works crucial. Learn Show Me The Demo Development - a methodology that treats demos as specifications using Playwright UI for real-time feedback.

#vibe coding #playwright #demo driven development #ai development #testing #solo founder #microsaas #development workflow #tdd
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2025-06-10 AI 2 min read

AI Sparks a Dev Tool Spending Spree! Are We Entering a New Golden Era?

AI has changed the game. I'm happily paying for dev tools that make me faster. Is this the dawn of a new golden era for dev tools?

#devtools #ai #software development #tech trends #developer community #future of coding #opensource #saas #llm #productivity
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2025-05-28 Project Management 2 min read

How AI + Markdown Can Transform Project Management

I ditched complex SaaS planning tools for plain markdown files managed in SilverBullet. Here's why it was a game-changer for my workflow.

#project management #ai #product development #markdown #no vendor lock-in #cimatic #kilocode
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2025-05-22 Solo Founder 2 min read

Introducing Cimatic: A Solo Founder's Journey to Faster CI/CD

A year ago, I left my job to be a full-time parent. In my spare time, I built Cimatic, a tool to optimize CI/CD pipelines. Here's the story.

#solo founder #cicd #github actions #devops #cimatic #microsaas
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