Giving back to the community
Communities turned a solitary interest into a shared practice. I am giving back with a camera and a hobby I take seriously.
#community · #video · #berlin
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My terminal learned my voice from one recording
I gave sayneat one recording. The next terminal message came back in my own voice, generated locally without Python, a GPU, or an account.
#tools · #text-to-speech · #ai · #rust · #voice-cloning
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How I supervise parallel coding agents from tmux
Sounds and speech bring me back to the right terminal. Tests, diffs, and worktrees keep several coding sessions useful. The limit is no longer typing speed. It is review.
#pi · #coding-agents · #tmux · #tools · #ai
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Why my terminal now sounds like a person
A one-line macOS notification led to an OpenAI wrapper, then back offline. I put six voices through the same stubborn build to hear what changed.
#tools · #text-to-speech · #rust · #ai
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I gave my terminal a voice worth listening to
A 256-line Bash wrapper keeps the best part of macOS say, but replaces its voice with OpenAI speech that sounds startlingly human.
#tools · #text-to-speech · #shell · #ai · #dotfiles
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The Phoenix script that runs my four-slot macOS desktop
A 40-inch ultrawide gave me plenty of pixels and nowhere obvious to put a 1,920 by 1,080 screen-share window.
#dotfiles · #macos · #phoenix · #javascript
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Dotfiles review, September 2025
I gave Neovim one column of empty space. It fixed a kind of slowness no benchmark records.
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How an Elixir umbrella let KMS become its own project
Formfix proved KMS's encrypt-first design while an Elixir umbrella let the key-management code move gradually from an embedded OTP application to a separate open-source project.
#formfix · #kms · #elixir · #security · #architecture
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Elixir makes enterprise integration almost comically easy
Plantronic handled durable SAP imports with Elixir, Oban, Ecto, and its existing PostgreSQL database inside the same application that owned the planning rules.
#elixir · #oban · #plantronic · #integrations · #sap
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Permissions belong in queries, not only menus
Why Plantronic's planner and team rules had to constrain data access below the interface.
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I made translations editable without replacing Gettext
Plantronic needed domain labels that could change without a release. I kept compiled Gettext catalogs for application copy, added a database fallback for operational vocabulary, and used ETS and PubSub to make edits visible.
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Why I turned ChatGPT into a Unix command
When GPT-3.5 became useful for reshaping code and structured text, a browser chat no longer felt like the right interface. I built Q, a small streaming wrapper that still lives in my dotfiles.
#dotfiles · #ai · #command-line · #unix
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I added task metadata. The next field still got a column.
Plantronic needed to display details from two systems without importing their entire schemas. JSONB made that flexible, but behavior rather than convenience decided what became part of the task model.
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I built the task routing system before we knew the rules
Plantronic's routing policy was unfinished. A small rule language and manager UI let client and developer work in parallel. The same routing model still runs today.
#plantronic · #software-architecture · #domain-modeling · #elixir
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Why I build complete, realistic seed datasets
Realistic seed data gave Plantronic a fast local reset, useful demos, and a safe way for colleagues to contribute without production data access.
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How much cloud fits into one server?
An unfamiliar on-premise machine looked like a constraint. It became a test of whether years of infrastructure work could collapse into one repeatable deployment.
#plantronic · #infrastructure-as-code · #terraform · #kubernetes · #elixir
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Finicky - scriptable macOS URL handler
A programmable URL handler becomes much more useful when its final destination can be any small executable in my dotfiles.
#dotfiles · #finicky · #macos · #security · #automation
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Your default url handler is a security issue
Taking ownership of macOS URL handling lets unknown links leave the work machine before they reach a privileged browser session.
#dotfiles · #security · #macos · #browsers · #virtualization
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Give the child a name
How an early rename helps define the boundary of long-running software projects.
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Stop typing `git push --set-upstream`
One Git setting removes friction when publishing a branch for the first time.
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How we rewrote Highsnobiety without taking it offline
Highsnobiety moved from a full WordPress site to a React frontend and an Elixir content stack over two years, with no editorial freeze and no big-bang launch. Change data capture, a PostgreSQL document model, GraphQL, and fallback-backed edge composition made the old and new systems coexist.
#architecture · #elixir · #graphql · #migrations · #highsnobiety · #react · #wordpress
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How I built edge-side includes on Cloudflare Workers
During Highsnobiety's WordPress-to-React migration, I built a streaming Cloudflare Worker that replaced selected regions of WordPress pages with server-rendered React fragments. It retained WordPress markup whenever the new path failed.
#cloudflare · #edge-computing · #javascript · #migrations · #highsnobiety
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The tides of freelancing
On using freelancing to negotiate time, motivation, intense work, and necessary rest.
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50a875be3eac870121c72c3e0951d8c8257db1fc Initializing master branch for publication
Restarting a decade-old blog with a new static publishing pipeline.
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Connecting APIs with Flow
Building a testable, failure-aware API connector with Elixir Flow and GenStage.
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Elli on Elixir
A complete guide to running the Elli web server in an Elixir application.
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The world would be a better place if...
A 2009 product idea connecting mite time tracking with Ballpark invoicing.
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Stellungnahme zu der Session 'Neues Publizieren'
Eine Einordnung der Atoms-&-Bits-Diskussion über Verlage und digitales Publizieren.
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Atoms & Bits -- Session 'Neues Publizieren'
Gedanken und Diskussionspunkte zur Zukunft des digitalen Publizierens.
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Quit your mail server admin job. Now!
Why a small team should reconsider running its own mail infrastructure.
#email · #operations · #outsourcing · #rails
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Extend your bash PS1 with a git branch without breaking your prompt
Adding the current Git branch to Bash PS1 without breaking prompt width calculation.
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Three steps to set up vsftpd
Configuring a read-only vsftpd service with virtual users on Debian.
#linux · #operations · #security · #ftp
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Lesson learned: MySQL client character encoding matters
Recovering a large production database from a MySQL client-encoding mismatch.
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RailsWay 2009: Rails performance
Notes from RailsWay 2009 on perceived performance, HTTP caching, and Rails caching.
#ruby · #rails · #performance · #caching · #conference
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RailsWay 2009 Berlin: Haml, Sass, and Compass
A concise note from RailsWay 2009 on Haml filters and embedded JavaScript.
#ruby · #rails · #haml · #conference
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Meet mite.cmd, a simple command-line interface for mite
Introducing mite.cmd, a terminal interface for time tracking with mite.
#ruby · #cli · #tools · #freelancing
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Migrate almost any password-encryption scheme to AuthLogic
Migrating users from a legacy password scheme to AuthLogic without resetting credentials.
#ruby · #rails · #authentication · #migration
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How to overcome MySQL's group_concat_max_len limit in Thinking Sphinx
Fixing truncated Thinking Sphinx indexes caused by MySQL's default GROUP_CONCAT limit.