About

What you'll find here

Short, practical posts about building things with Rails, fixing CSS problems, and shipping small projects. No fluff, no filler. If a post doesn't teach you something useful in a few minutes, I didn't do my job.

The topics I keep coming back to:

• Rails and deployment -- production setups, Kamal, CI/CD, the kind of plumbing that makes shipping painless.
• Web dev gotchas -- CSS edge cases, browser quirks, the bugs that eat an hour because you're looking in the wrong place.
• Side quests -- music notation, tools, experiments. The stuff that keeps coding fun.

About me

I'm Bran. Experienced Rails developer, now mostly AI's sidekick. Full-time dad, exclusive phonics tutor to my daughter, junior pianist, and an optimistic gardener trying to keep things alive.

I've been building web applications for a long time. These days I'm interested in what happens when you pair a small team (or just one person) with good tools and ship without asking permission.