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adam darrah — engineer. notes on software, ai, and the tools in between.

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2026-10-12 The Good Ship KubernetesA Kubernetes sea shanty starring Captain Quorum, an orca built from a character reference sheet, with lip sync driven word by word. #ai 3m

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2026-10-12 Emmie Is FourA birthday opera for my daughter, starring the three stuffies she plays with every day. Opera turned out to be a great format for these videos. #video 3m

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2026-10-12 Someone always trusted someone else to write the codeI no longer review most of the code I push. DHH's Rails World keynote helped me understand why that's not as crazy as it sounds. #ai 2m

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2026-10-11 I built a game with AI and gave up on itThree days, five versions, a Rust server and a physics-aware level generator. The game works. It isn't good. What that taught me about building with AI. #ai 5m

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2026-10-09 Build a local software factory in 10 minutesOne prompt sets up a Claude Code skill that runs every ticket through the same lifecycle, plus a mod that shows where you are. Pick a theme. #ai 4m

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2026-10-09 Three more songs, and the skill that makes themThree more lyric videos about Rails, Pokémon cards and a rookie cop, plus the Claude Code skill I use to make them, now open source. #ai 2m

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2026-10-09 Now We're LiveThe first post on akdarrah.com is a song about building akdarrah.com. Rails 8, a $12 droplet, ASCII art and a red cursor. #meta 2m

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