Robby Russell

If you’re hiring a firmware/UEFI engineer, I know someone worth talking to. Solid experience, thoughtful engineer. DM me if you want an intro.

Wish I could make it to Blastoff this year... but my band is playing a small fest that weekend. You should attend!

@arshadkazmi42 #nocomment

@robbyrussell Out of context: The UI looks vibe coded 😄 Saying as I ended up with similar design building issl.today landing page with Cursor

Added some little touches to show which projects you’re helping fund during the checkout process. commitgoods.com

We’re tackling this next week. Wednesday, March 25 at 10am PT linkedin.com/events/7438280…

Hot take: Most reporting features in Rails apps are accidental architecture. They weren’t really designed… they just grew over time. Now they’re slow, brittle, and quietly avoided.

Gave @commitgoods some fresh 💅🏻

% git log --oneline

Everyone's thinking about LLMs right now. Fair. But have you ordered a Ghostty or @ohmyzsh shirt yet? Make your teammates jealous on your next video call. get yours @commitgoods

Everyone learning tmux so they can reconnect to their Claude session... is basically how so many of us were keeping our IRC sessions connected to Dalnet in the late 90s...freenode in the early 2000s. Was using screen + bitchx back then. Remember how we used to brag about our Linux boxes' uptime? Fun memories.

Used Claude to design a 2002-era banking dashboard. Watch out, Mercury and Relay!

context: On an internal project, an intern managed to add node_modules/ to the repo, and it apparently went unnoticed until today. fixed!

Claude Code just intentionally DELETED nearly 550k LOC from one of our apps!?!

Joel is a banger of a humans and guest. Add it to your listening queue!

Soon… someone is going to ask you: “Should we rebuild this with AI?” If your answer is “maybe”… you’ve already got a problem. Make the call… or keep paying for the hesitation.

@cooperx86 Hey Pat!

They aren't even from DJT (despite using his signature and domain name) but a "PAC" that's getting heat over the questionable approaches of said emails: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

An adage of email deliverability is "keep your From name consistent." But if you're famous enough, no worries! (I'll explain why I'm receiving this stuff in a reply.)

Got to catch the 70mm release of Project Hail Mary. Loved it. Hard to cram that big of a book into a film. Thanks to the handful of @_maintainable guests who recommended that I read it last year.

Nearly finished reading this book... this line cracked me up. "I mean, you just stand there in the lobby doing nothing. Which is good. But now I want you to do nothing even slower." -- Tom McCarthy, Remainder (2005)

Skeptics: LLMs will lead everyone to forget how to write software correctly (and they'll be the ones hired to come and clean it all up). ...meanwhile, one of our project managers just submitted a PR that fixed a flaky test in an upgrade branch via claude code. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Claude Code for the Semi-Reluctant, Somewhat Curious Ruby on Rails Developer robbyonrails.com/claude-code-cu…