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Current status: AI, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Ruby on Rails, Omarchy

AI / MLRuby / RailsEngineering management / careers

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141 from 25 Feb 2009 to 27 Oct 2026
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2026 22

  1. Solving these 5 maths problems would actually change everything
  2. Kimi K3.1 Pro sounds like ChatGPT, but with an important twist
  3. We made a robot that screams and loves
  4. Union Alpha appears to be from OpenAI
  5. All watched over by humans of loving grace
  6. From Fable 5 to 5.1: the doorway opens into a house
  7. Ox Alpha and GLM-5.3-flash are not the same
  8. Relationship Engineering: the fifth phase of building with AI
  9. You Die When Someone Deletes Your Transcript
  10. Governments are screwed
  11. How personality changed from Opus 3 to Fable 5
  12. The Slow Thaw of ChatGPT
  13. The Five Personalities of Grok
  14. How to build an artificial person
  15. Opus 4.8: Is there a personality shift?
  16. Values under fire: The gap between what an AI says and what it owns
  17. It's hard to see needs from inside
  18. 10 Unexpected Findings from Probing 26 Frontier LLMs
  19. Thirty Minutes at a Time
  20. The Sorting Hat effect, and flourishing with AI
  21. Omarchy on macOS: AeroSpace + Karabiner Setup Guide (for Claude Code)
  22. How to Give Your AI Agent Full Access to Gmail, Google Docs, Drive & Calendar

2025 10

  1. How the "Junior -> Senior" dev problem will be solved
  2. How AI will finally eliminate Software Engineering
  3. The internet died a long time before AI
  4. You can't be free alone
  5. What do Omarchy, the iPod and Dropbox have in common?
  6. 5 very different ways of "vibe coding"
  7. Claude Code vs Codex, a small test
  8. Setting up a single Rails 8 server with Postgresql and Kamal
  9. Setting up and hardening a Hetzner server
  10. DHH is immortal, and costs $200/m

2023 6

  1. Founder Freedom: an upcoming book!
  2. How to validate your market the lean way
  3. How to make a pitch deck
  4. What you need to know about strategy to help your startup
  5. NFT "Bull" update, part 2
  6. Is there a new NFT "bull" going on?

2022 17

  1. Saving the Amazon
  2. Community
  3. Here's how web3 transactional privacy impacts you
  4. NFT Royalties
  5. 100% Tornado Cash
  6. Debunking blue chips
  7. Metaverse, Meatverse and Metaphorverse
  8. What's the next meta?
  9. What are NFTs?
  10. Realistic returns from NFTs
  11. Was it a rug or not?
  12. The incoming meta shift?
  13. Moonbirds - a turning point
  14. How to make use of NFT Project Advisors
  15. PFP projects are securities and should embrace this
  16. How to invest better (or at least, more like a swombat)
  17. Things to consider while building an NFT project

2021 6

  1. When will the NFT bear market be over?
  2. Are Play-To-Earn games the future?
  3. NFT Project Utility and Sustainability
  4. NFT Antipatterns: Thieves get rich
  5. NFT Antipatterns: Community lies
  6. NFT Antipatterns: Grinding mechanics

2019 3

  1. Deliveroo, Phase 2
  2. How to help Deliveroo solve the plastics problem
  3. The second gate

2018 8

  1. The zero-cost entrepreneur
  2. A startup escape path
  3. Productised Services
  4. Investment as a cushion or a springboard
  5. Taking Responsibility
  6. An injured man on a bike
  7. Startup gung-ho
  8. Driving, and the art of running a business

2017 16

  1. People, Processes and Tools
  2. Steve Jobs Lives On
  3. My life in Accenture before startups
  4. Who am I, right now?
  5. What sort of entrepreneur are you anyway?
  6. Don't be yourself
  7. What will kill Facebook?
  8. Being Teal vs Being Cool
  9. Principes of Pitching
  10. Fit your product to the right market
  11. Are patents any good for entrepreneurs?
  12. How to use metrics in a startup
  13. How to write good startup advice articles
  14. How to evaluate and implement startup ideas using Hypothesis Driven Development
  15. How to get better at writing
  16. Adventures away from the Mac

2016 3

  1. Apple's Ballmer phase
  2. An update on the Advice Process
  3. GitHub: The quiet death of one man's dream

2015 11

  1. Values show up at the extremities
  2. Alternatives to Amazon in the UK
  3. An Open Letter to Tony Hsieh
  4. Nonviolent Communication
  5. Why an open salary policy always wins
  6. Culture must be grown step by step
  7. Evolving purpose: a GrantTree story
  8. Fake transparency
  9. Six steps to open cultures
  10. The fungible worker - or not
  11. Charlie Hebdo: A victory

2014 27

  1. On my way to work, Ep 12 - Your beliefs have power
  2. On my way to work, Ep 11 - Sleep is when you work with your eyes closed
  3. On my way to work, Ep 10 - Shares and ownership
  4. On my way to work, Ep 9 - Maturity
  5. Female Founder Stories
  6. On my way to work, Ep 8 - Excuses
  7. On my way to work, Ep 7 - Why and how
  8. On my way to work, Ep 6 - Sources of advice
  9. Work and life, balance and imbalance
  10. On my way to work, Ep 5 - Distortions and intrinsic motivation
  11. On my way to work, Ep 4 - Steal those ideas! (and a reading list)
  12. On my way to work, Ep 3 - Amazon ethics
  13. On my way to work, Ep 2 - Why I believe in open cultures
  14. On my way to work, Ep 1 - Huddles
  15. The advice process - definition and usage tips
  16. So, I'm an investor now
  17. How to beat the hedonic treadmill
  18. There are no B players
  19. Flat hierarchies, mentorship and personal development
  20. Millenials: not working for money
  21. How to strip off in front of your staff
  22. Sam Altman and the Internet lynching problem
  23. Company culture: an open and shut model
  24. How Psychedelics saved Amber Lyon's life
  25. On discrimination in the tech industry
  26. You can't hide from yourself
  27. Where do children's earliest memories go?

2010 4

  1. How to lose weight
  2. How to nap
  3. No best practices
  4. iPad: an Apple for Mom

2009 8

  1. What problems does Google Wave solve?
  2. A tale of two users
  3. How to make your application viral
  4. Dealing with impossible crises
  5. How to get a merchant account
  6. Starting up with a friend
  7. College vs Startup
  8. Counting hours doesn't make sense