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Thoughts on web development, mobile apps, and building better software.
Pipedrive knows a deal closed. It doesn't know whether the job made money. How I snapshot profit at the moment a deal closes, decide which system owns each field, and why an unused default gem broke a deploy.
Read moreAPI Fishcare's Shopify store serves two audiences off customer tags that were never spelled the same way twice. Here's how I normalised them, split audience from spend, and kept the cart honest with checkout.
Read moreA two-day Prestige redesign for jewellery brand Emma Glover Design, and the small Rails backend behind its Drop a Hint button: an anonymous email endpoint that isn't an open relay, email that doesn't look like spam, and consent pushed into Shopify customers.
Read moreAn iPad on a stand, a guitar in both hands, and a loud room. Notes on voice commands, forgiving fuzzy matching, a wave-to-turn camera gesture, and why I deleted my own sync conflict rules five hours after writing them.
Read moreAn August on the Loadout Advance iOS app: a Dynamic Island that drew a grey square for reasons that had nothing to do with the image, a project file that quietly broke TestFlight, and a search built for thumbs instead of databases.
Read moreA summer of TourChamp work on flight booking for touring crews: grouping a roster by departure airport, a flight search that found nothing because of midnight, and swapping 700 lines of passport regex for one Claude tool call.
Read moreRoadie Wars 5 is on the App Store. The week after launch turned up a class of bug you can't find before you ship: the kind where nothing crashes, nothing logs, and the game just quietly does something else.
Read moreApp Store metadata, age ratings, screenshots, pricing, even this blog post — the release of Roadie Wars 5 was driven through the App Store Connect API by an AI copilot.
Read moreRoadie Wars 5 tells its story in comic panels between stages — authored in a homemade web editor that runs on localhost and deploys to the Simulator with one button.
Read more100 stages, five venues, boss nights and breathers — all of it lives in levels.json, and a headless robot plays every stage to prove they're beatable.
Read moreEvery character in Roadie Wars 5 is drawn by Gemini — kept on-model by a pipeline that treats prompts like a legal document and chroma-keys like it's 1998.
Read moreRoadie Wars 5 : Stage Climb is the first Roadie Wars game you can actually buy. That's not a mistake — it's the joke, and it's also a design story.
Read morePrivacy policy for the iOS game Roadie Wars: Stage Climb.
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Three third-party integrations that saved hundreds of hours building Ottawa's wellness festival platform. How we connected Eventbrite, DeepL, and Claude into a single Rails pipeline.
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How we built Ottawa's largest wellness festival platform -- Eventbrite sync, slot-based booking, bilingual content, and AI-cleaned bios. All on Rails 8 with SQLite.
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Your Rails app is tested. Your CI is green. Your Kamal config is pristine. But SCAN_RUBY found a tab character on line 47 and now the entire deployment is grounded. This is the story of how whitespace nearly ended civilization.
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Shopify merchants are now discoverable and purchasable inside ChatGPT, Copilot, Google AI Mode, and Gemini. AI-driven traffic is up 7x. Here's how it works and what you should do about it.
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Why we stopped paying for Loom and built a self-hosted video posting system with auto-generated intro slides, FFmpeg processing, and zero external dependencies.
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Building an interactive court customizer with layer-based color selection, logo uploads, and PDF generation via Adobe's API.
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How we built a self-service crew portal so tour managers stop playing email tag with 50 people about passport scans.
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Building a real-time inventory bridge between Unleashed warehouse management and Shopify for a multi-warehouse retailers.
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The solar installation industry is booming. What started as small, local operations has evolved into sophisticated businesses managing thousands of SKUs, multiple warehouses, complex customer relations...
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Picture this: You have three warehouse locations. A customer orders 20 panels from your Shopify store. Your team checks one location—out of stock. They check another—only 12 in stock. By the time someo...
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You're running a solar company, and every customer is different. Your major contractor who buys 10 SolarEdge inverters a month deserves different pricing than the homeowner buying panels for their roof...
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