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Hands-Free Claude Code: How I Ship Features With Wispr Flow and a Game Controller

1d ago · 5 min read · I've been writing code without touching the keyboard. Not as a gimmick — as my actual daily workflow for the last few weeks. The setup has two parts: Wispr Flow for voice input An 8BitDo Micro bluetooth controller for everything else That's it. Th...

Ruby on Rails Performance: 7 Lessons from Scaling FirstPromoter

1d ago · 6 min read · When your Rails app grows from a handful of users to millions of referrals across thousands of programs, performance becomes the whole job. I work on FirstPromoter, an affiliate tracking platform powering 7,000+ affiliate programs. Over the years we'...

What Happens When Your API Has to Open a Door

1d ago · 3 min read · I've been at ROOM for a while now, working across their platform. ROOM makes phone booths and meeting rooms for offices, and the software side is about making those physical spaces bookable, trackable, and manageable. We run a Rails API for the B2B p...

What 2018 Taught Me About Building Software

1d ago · 1 min read · End of the year, time to look back. The team doubled, the projects got bigger, and I spent way more time not writing code than I expected. Biggest surprise: how much of this job is communication. Understanding what a client actually needs vs what the...

We Built a Bike Security App in 24 Hours

1d ago · 1 min read · Emil and I entered the Techsylvania hackathon last week. 24 hours, connected devices theme. We built LockHere — detects motion around your bike, sends you a real-time alert with its location. Simple idea. Bikes get stolen in Cluj all the time. Rails...