Anthony Panozzo's Blog

2026

Building a /reload Command for Claude Code [Feb 07]

External Monitor Brightness Control on Mac [Jan 26]

Making Infinite Scroll Work with Client-Side Filtering [Jan 23]

Vibe Coding 24/7 On A Screen For Ants [Jan 07]

2025

Avoid Losing Work with Jujutsu (jj) for AI Coding Agents [Nov 22]

How I Generally Reduced Sugar Consumption [Oct 31]

PlainErrors: Streamlined Rails Error Pages for LLM Agents [Oct 23]

Set A Minimum Daily Step Goal [Feb 28]

2024

How I Fix Issues On Open Source Projects [Oct 13]

2023

Caching OpenAI Embeddings API Calls In-memory [Jun 08]

Creating A Job Posting Search Engine Using OpenAI Embeddings [May 02]

Using TamperMonkey to Clean Up Websites [Apr 26]

Using a Redlock Mutex to Avoid Duplicate Requests [Apr 22]

2016

Using iTerm Automatic Profile Switching to Make Fewer Mistakes In Production [Aug 21]

Squashing Intermittent Tests With ntimes [Aug 08]

Softening Statements With Parentheticals [Aug 01]

Night Working Computer Setup [Jul 18]

Writing Composable Shell Functions for Better Workflows [Jul 11]

I Gave a Presentation About Redux to Indy.js [May 23]

Turning Down the Volume on Social Media [Apr 25]

Commuting Probably Costs More Than You Think [Apr 18]

Refactoring Rails Routes [Apr 11]

How to Actually Publish More Things [Apr 04]

Ignore URLs and Acroynms While Spell-checking Vim [Mar 22]

Running Old Programs In The Browser [Mar 21]

Deciding From Multiple Open-Source Alternatives [Mar 14]

Mac Karabiner Key Remaps I Use [Mar 02]

For Higher Productivity, Call Your Shots [Feb 29]

Rice Bucket Workout: Forearm and Grip For Ultimate [Feb 01]

Resolving Jekyll 3 Draft Issues [Jan 25]

Blocking Your Own Damn Distractions [Jan 16]

Splitting and Joining Code Blocks With Vim [Jan 11]

2015

Testing Middlewares and Mixins [Dec 21]

Split Testing Static Sites [Dec 14]

Useful HTML Elements You Might Not Be Using Enough [Dec 07]

Fluent Forever Review [Nov 30]

Daily and Weekly Points Checklist [Nov 23]

Should I Work For Free? [Nov 16]

Consistently Snake- and Camel-Casing [Nov 09]

The Cross-Country RV Trip I Didn't Take [Nov 02]

Work As If Remote [Oct 26]

Debugging An Issue With Should.js [Oct 12]

Coffeebot [Oct 05]

Setting Up RuboCop on an Existing Rails Project [Sep 26]

GitHub Pull Request Workflow Labels [Sep 19]

How I Did 5580 Pushups In 23 Weeks [Sep 12]

If Something Is Hard, Do It More Often [Sep 01]

Must-Have Vim JavaScript Setup [Aug 28]

My First Experience With Node.js [May 11]

Night Writing With The Neo [May 08]

Refactoring JavaScript with Grasp [May 05]

The Pain Will Continue Until Understanding Improves [Apr 23]

The Engineering Manager's Lament [Apr 17]

Why I Review Code ASAP [Apr 14]

The Gateway Drug to Continuous Integration [Apr 09]

Express Route Parameter Ordering [Apr 03]

Testing MEAN Apps With Javascript [Mar 31]

Debugging and Fixing Local Karma PhantomJS Issue [Feb 28]

Blog Changes Afoot [Feb 10]

2014

Trivia, Social Connection, and Meta-Information [Oct 10]

Turning Away From Ruminations [Oct 06]

Attention Conservation Notices [Oct 03]

How To Overcome Negative Thoughts [Sep 30]

Work Through Meeting Times To Gain Time [Sep 12]

Migrating from Octopress to Jekyll [Jun 12]

Systematizing Dinner [Jun 09]

Older Posts That Are Still Interesting [Jun 04]

Why You Should Explain Your Android App's Requested Permissions [May 30]

Faster Ruby on Rails Routes [May 15]

Harvesting Artifacts For Free Blog Posts [May 12]

Replace Local Cron With Jenkins [May 02]

Starting on an Existing Rails Project [Apr 30]

Increase Homebrewed Jenkins Memory [Apr 25]

Metablogging: How This Blog Works [Feb 20]

Compelling Reasons To Fly Southwest [Jan 17]

Floobits for Remote Pairing [Jan 08]

Write a Test Before Disabling Code [Jan 06]

Increasing Cashflow in a Software Consultancy [Jan 03]

2013

Collecting Fees with Intuit Payment Network [Dec 26]

Vim Plugins: Why You Should Use noremap [Dec 10]

Randomizing Writing Topics [Dec 08]

Saving $1400 With a Prepaid Phone Plan [Oct 01]

How I Try to Mentally Unblock Myself [Sep 17]

The Tech Behind My Wedding [Sep 12]

Quick Tip: Audio Reminders for Better Posture [Aug 27]

The 20% Difference [Aug 17]

How to Set Up Local HTTPS Development [Aug 12]

Using Asocial Media Effectively [Jan 30]

What Losing At Online Spades Taught Me About Business [Jan 09]

Why Only 12% of People Succeed at Their New Year's Resolutions [Jan 03]

2012

Change Where You Work [Jun 21]

Do Lean Startups Reduce Personal Commitment? [May 17]

What I've Learned From RailsThemes So Far [May 14]

Why Today Is Scientifically The Best Day to Learn Something [Apr 25]

What Large Amounts of Caffeine Can Do [Feb 23]

WordPress "No Such User Here" Error With Formidable Forms [Jan 31]

Wordpress Posts Not Saving [Jan 30]

Titanium and Database Download From Server [Jan 25]

RR for Test Doubles Presentation [Jan 13]

form was removed from Rails and is now available as a plugin. [Jan 11]

Signs You Aren't Really Building a Minimum Viable Product [Jan 11]

2011

What are Some Great Posts on Debugging Tough Problems? [Nov 17]

Rails Raw SQL Insert -- Time Wrong [Nov 10]

Converting ERB to Slim [Oct 19]

Bundler see what updates are available [Oct 18]

Making Recommendations with Apache Mahout Presentation [Oct 17]

Slim "Failure/Error: render ActionView::Template::Error: Unexpected end of file" [Oct 15]

How I Patched Devise to Force Login for Twitter and Facebook [Oct 14]

How to Write Without Reservations [Oct 10]

Formal Skill Modeling [Oct 06]

How to Look Like You Can Accurately Predict the Future of Technology [Oct 03]

Think Like an Agilist Challenge [Sep 28]

Spotting Hidden Stories [Sep 26]

Vim Directory Structure [Sep 09]

How to Sign Up For My Office Hours [Aug 22]

"Finding A Technical Cofounder" Blog Roundup [Aug 18]

Rails Multiple CSS Classes [Aug 17]

Gamification Is Not Entirely Bullshit [Aug 16]

The Case Against Writing Backlogs [Aug 12]

Using Scalpel to Recover Lost Data in Ubuntu [Aug 01]

smtp.rb:14: [BUG] Segmentation fault [Jun 20]

The State of Ruby and Testing [Jun 02]

Ruby Filter Script [Jun 01]

Something is installing Rake 0.9.0 when I bundle install [May 23]

April 2011 Customer Discovery Day [May 20]

Startup Weekend Patterns [May 13]

Put Yourself In A Position Where You Can Fail [May 06]

How to Sleep Four and 1/2 Hours a Day [Apr 29]

Heroku - You don't have permissions to manage processses for this app [Apr 26]

Install pandoc from source on Ubuntu [Apr 23]

My Lean Startup Machine Boston Experience Report [Mar 22]

Fixing Sporadically Failing Specs [Mar 14]

Run Local Scripts on Heroku [Mar 09]

How to Run A Successful Brown Bag System [Mar 01]

Redundant Communication Redundancy [Feb 04]

Show Git Version a Heroku Repository Is Using [Feb 02]

What Are Your Negative Gains? [Jan 18]

Write-Copy-Fix-Refactor [Jan 14]

Avoiding Email and Twitter Overload [Jan 11]

2010

No such file to load when running Ruby 1.9.2 on Ubuntu [Dec 31]

Ruby Pretty-Print XML [Dec 31]

Ruby Shebang RVM [Dec 16]

Getting Objective Resource Working with SDK 4.2 [Dec 03]

! Fingerprint already exists. Please use one ssh key per Heroku account [Nov 23]

Getting autotest working with Rails 3 [Nov 09]

Could not find gem 'zentest (>= 0, runtime)' in any of the gem sources [Nov 09]

pg_ext.bundle: [BUG] Segmentation fault [Nov 05]

rake gems:install fails with no such file to load [Nov 01]

"file has vanished" error when running sudo port -v selfupdate [Nov 01]

The command "cmd /c ""%VS100COMNTOOLS%vsvars32.bat" && sgen /nologo /assembly:"FOO" /force /type:BAR"" exited with code 255. [Sep 24]

A Debugging Blog [Sep 22]

What Does Everyone Know You For? [Aug 19]

The Four Noble Truths of Coding [Aug 05]

A Tool for Your Toolbox: Fold Calendar [Aug 03]

So what have I been doing the past few months? [Jul 12]

Refactoring Tip [Jun 02]

Open Source for Retired People [May 29]

Review: Managing The Design Factory [May 11]

A Tool For Your Toolbox: Risk Poker [Mar 09]

Signal and Meaning [Feb 28]

How to Write a Work Journal [Feb 22]

Guilty Developer Syndrome [Feb 02]

Pecha Kucha Complaining [Jan 23]

TODO: FIXME, HACK, and XXX [Jan 15]

How to Use Meta-information Effectively [Jan 08]

Why My Parents Don't Know How Old I Am [Jan 01]

2009

Myers-Briggs - ENTP [Dec 21]

My Blog Is Under Siege [Dec 15]

Interesting Links, Nascent Thoughts [Oct 01]

git svn [Sep 28]

Writing and Revision Control [Sep 25]

Annual Navel Gazing [Sep 24]

Regular Expression Anchor Mnemonic [Sep 20]

Free Software Documentation [Sep 19]

Dream Recall [Sep 16]

Caps Lock Remapping [Sep 02]

Personal MBA [Aug 27]

Writing Is Like Coding [Aug 24]

Fieldstone Method of Writing [Aug 16]

Review: Getting Real [Aug 08]

Problem Solving Stack [Aug 04]

Meaningful conversations [Jul 15]

Growing Up [Jun 04]

Capistrano completion for zsh under Ubuntu [Apr 10]

The Pomodoro Technique [Feb 16]

Removing delays -- for prizes! [Feb 02]

Exploratory Testing and Visual Browser Diff [Jan 21]

Testing Seminars [Jan 18]

Software as a Sitcom [Jan 16]

Open Source Tech Writer [Jan 13]

Justification for reading? [Jan 11]

Review: How to Win Friends And Influence People [Jan 06]

2008

How Shall I Choose? [Dec 23]

What an idea is worth [Dec 19]

Indianapolis Conferences [Dec 16]

Review: The Drunkard's Walk [Dec 03]

iPhone Tech Talks: Part 2 - Interface Design [Nov 27]

iPhone Tech Talks: Part 1 - Overview [Nov 17]

Review: Bull Moves in Bear Markets [Nov 10]

Vim Word Processing [Nov 06]

Review: Tribes [Oct 29]

IndyGiveCamp [Oct 27]

Review: Getting to YES [Oct 22]

Limiting WIP and BIP [Oct 20]

Introduction to Theories [Oct 20]

Helpful Error Message [Oct 16]

IWST Summary [Oct 03]

Why Blog? [Sep 29]

Architecting Scalable and Usable Web Applications [Sep 25]

Java Anti-Pattern [Sep 25]

22 idea street [Sep 24]