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Managing Partner at Launch Scout | Software Engineering Leader | Elixir, Phoenix, Ruby, and Rails Enthusiast
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Subtle Superpowers
https://timothy.mecklem.com/nibbles/2025/10/27/subtle-superpowers/
Published: October 27, 2025 00:00
Living in the Rails and Phoenix ecosystems is full of beautifully executed conveniences that are easy to forget and hard to appreciate until you step outside for something. For example, when you test a controller in Rails you typically use a request spec,…
The Scalability YAGNI trap
https://timothy.mecklem.com/hot-takes/2025/10/24/hot-take-yagni-over-scalability/
Published: October 24, 2025 00:00
Don’t sacrifice testability, simplicity, and joy over scalability (in either direction) until you actually have the problem that needs it. If you get some scalability for free, great (thanks, Elixir!). But it’s a great big YAGNI for most endeavors. The…
Try a Moon Shot Idea Every Day
https://timothy.mecklem.com/nibbles/2025/10/23/try-a-moon-shot-idea-every-day/
Published: October 23, 2025 00:00
I subconsciously started doing something a while back, and now it’s become an intentional habit. In a side screen, I’ll give Claude an impossible task. Refactor something huge, or try to one-shot an application with a big prompt. The success rate is…
AI Standing Between People and Connections
https://timothy.mecklem.com/nibbles/2025/10/22/ai-standing-between-people-and-connections/
Published: October 22, 2025 00:00
AI has an important role to play, but standing in the middle of people and connections is not one of them for me. Over the last year or so, my family has made a habit out of watching Instagram together on the couch and laughing at the same cat videos,…
Distributed Ollama LLM Infrastructure
https://timothy.mecklem.com/hot-takes/2025/10/21/distributed-ollama-llm-infrastructure/
Published: October 21, 2025 00:00
Achievement unlocked: Running some grunt LLM work on 5 local ollama servers each tied to an NVIDIA GPU running in docker containers with an nginx server in front. Rails and RubyLLM handling the job processing and api calls like a dream.