Anything is possible with enough code*
*results may vary. Notes on software, AI tooling, and whatever the current hobby is.
Claude Code's Permission Layers: A Map of the Territory
Anthropic says Claude Code users approve 93% of permission prompts. That number cuts two ways. It's the whole motiva
The Sandbox Config That Actually Works
Two weeks of daily sandbox use, the config I landed on, and the friction I'm still sorting out
Can We Just Sit with the Win?
Awhile back, I shipped a big refactor last week. Weeks of effort, untangling legacy code, the kind of deep backend work
~/.claude/ Is Production
Testing Claude Code plugins without trashing your config
Debugging Sessions: vendor-gem, bash, ruby, and require_relative
In which we debug a shell script that has been around forever, and dive into building gem
Line Noise: Rails enum scope overwrites existing method
You know when you are running your code, and you see a bunch of messages, and you have no idea what they are? And then o
New domain, new blog, new design
Obligatory first post! It only took 7 years and a pandemic to get an update up on my blog. I purchased pickles.dev back
Parsing CSV with Ruby
I’m filing this one under “blog posts I wish existed when I was googling.” If you are dealing with data on the web, you
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