Podia at scale
A description of some of the scaling challenges at Podia. It's mostly about managing complexity rather than the traditional technical challenges you'd normally associate with Rails.
You're all CTO now
Welcome to your new role. I hope you'll be happy here 😅
Losing our taste
As AI-Cthulhu continues to capture value for itself, how do we retain and develop our taste, our intention, our creativity, and our livelihoods?
Fixing Bridgetown on Cloudflare Page (v2)
Fixing "\xE2" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 on Cloudflare Pages
I disagree
We all need to live in a world with people we disagree with; but when our favourite artist reveals themselves to be terrible, we don't need to beat outselves up because we enjoyed their art
The evolution of incident response at Podia
No one loves being on-call but I argue that it's better than constantly checking Slack for issues and you can structure it in a humane way.
Why Podia doesn't use review apps anymore
It turns out the review apps are fundamentally incompatible with short-lived branches. We prefer to use feature flags.
Moving off Heroku, slowly
This is the tale of how we gradually reduced our reliance on Heroku and found a position of power and opportunity
We're all in the arena
It is not the critic who counts, says every tech-bro doing something awful
The manager's unbearable lack of endorphins
Musings on management and how to can get that endorphin rush that I'm missing