Notes from the workshop.

Occasional writing on building software solo, Rails & Hotwire, and the slow practice of shipping small things.

• 07 aug 2026

  Every check was green and one of my apps had not deployed itself in ten weeks.

  I spent a week chasing a flaky deploy step. The instrumentation I added to diagnose it found something worse: another one of my apps had not run an automated deploy in ten weeks, and every check was green.

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• 31 jul 2026

  I spent months on SEO for a site Google had barely indexed.

  I thought GotHired had a ranking problem. I sampled 30 pages, found 1 in Google's index, and realised there was nothing to rank in the first place.

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