Rails
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Lessons from the Solo Developer Using Modern Tools
Part 5 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
How I used code-aware tools to multiply my reach (tests, docs, audits) while keeping humans in charge of architecture, business logic, and quality.
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The Reality of Production: When Hope Meets Live Users
Part 4 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
Launching with 3,000 passing tests still led to two weeks of production bugs—fees, permissions, Stripe, email, and a thousand cuts. How I triaged 314 fixes, kept markets running, and what I’d change next time.
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The Architecture Challenge: Translating 19 Years of Rails Logic to Modern SvelteKit
Part 3 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
How I translated a 19-year Rails monolith to SvelteKit—TypeScript services, Drizzle, subdomain multitenancy, role-based auth, secure theming — without downtime.
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