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The Single Most Important Thing You Need as a One-Person Business to Guarantee You Get Paid
Get paid or go broke.Donn Felker - August 6, 2025
Vibe Coding with AI and the Future of Software
Software’s Industrial Revolution MomentDonn Felker - April 16, 2025
Productive LLM Coding with an llm-context.md File
Avoid repeat prompts with context.Donn Felker - March 24, 2025
Invisible Mentors
Mentorship without direct connection.Donn Felker - March 7, 2025
The Life Changing Magic of Doing Things For Free
Plant Seeds of Opportunity.Donn Felker - March 1, 2025
Done is Better Than Perfect
Perfection delays real progress.Donn Felker - February 21, 2025
Master the Basics
Skill beats high-end tools.Donn Felker - February 20, 2025
How to Backup A Digital Ocean Managed Database
Digital Ocean backup with pg_dump.Donn Felker - February 19, 2025
Migrating from Sidekiq to Solid Queue
Goodbye Sidekiq, Hello Solid Queue.Donn Felker - January 8, 2025
Rails ImportMap Pin with Version
Pin specific versions in ImportMap.Donn Felker - January 2, 2025
Ruby Script for Telegram Notifications
In a recent podcast with Pietr Levels he mentioned that he uses Telegram for all his messaging and system notifications instead of paying for expensive third party services for this. This post shows you how to do this with ruby. In short, he writes simple PHP scripts to check for certain uptime, events, errors, etc…Donn Felker - October 15, 2024
The Decline Of Mobile Development
Mobile (Android and iOS) is getting harder and harder to develop for, and devs are leaving the platforms out of frustration and annoyance. With each new OS update a slew of new requirements have to be met otherwise you’ll face “restrictive action” against your app by a particular time. Usually this is in the name…Donn Felker - July 25, 2024