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How I now work on my side project: I write the issue, label it, and an agent loop running on my laptop works on it, verifies it and opens a PR for me to review.

How partial indexes work in PostgreSQL, when they earn their keep, and how to create one.

Practical ways to keep writing code and stay technically credible after moving into a lead or manager role.

Writing custom HTTP basic authentication middleware for Go's Gin framework.

Building text chat on OpenTok's WebRTC platform inside a Rails application.

Querying Google BigQuery from Ruby, including service-account auth and a reusable service object.

Adding a lightweight captcha to a Rails form without relying on a third-party service.

Setting up client-side SSL certificate authentication with Rails behind Nginx.

Sending files between machines over netcat, wrapped in an AppleScript for one-click transfers.

What shipped in version 0.1.0 of the feature_flags Ruby gem, with usage examples.