01 whoami
I’m a Ruby engineer. I build, repair, and explain production software. Definitely excited about AI. Sometimes I climb mountains.
I build and maintain Rails products. I’ve worked fifteen-year-old monoliths and solo-developed web-apps for start-ups using all kinds of tech.
Most of my work sits where product engineering, maintenance, and developer experience meet. I like making systems easier to understand, performant, and, most imporantly, less annoying to operate.
I create and contribute to OSS almost daily. In my portfolio you’ll find useful CLIs, Gems and tools built for the community. See /work.
Selected notes and essays. The full archive lives at /writing.
SpatiaLite is a great alternative to PostGIS/PostgreSQL if you want to stick to SQLite. Previously, we set up SpatiaLite in a simple demo application. To jog your memory, here’s what we’re building.
What I love about Vim is its simplicity. Yes, I’m serious. Everyone jokes about being unable to quit the editor, and about the steep learning curve, but I really do think that at its core, Vim is simple.
I’ve been copy-pasting a lot of code recently. Not in the copy-from-stack-overflow-without-understanding-what-it-does kind of way, but in the deliberate, this-is-better-than-adding-a-dependency kind of way.
Selected public talks. The full archive lives at /talks.
With over a dozen years of experience in software engineering, I have seen some stuff. I have worked with C#, Java and JavaScript, but I am most happy working with Ruby on Rails.
I am curious about the intersection of software and wetware: software development processes, developer experience, and software testing. I have a soft spot for silly software and most enjoy building software products.
I spend my spare time with my family in Vienna, reading, or hiking and climbing somewhere in the Austrian Alps. I keep a bookshelf of what I’ve been reading.
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