Writing on engineering, AI, and shipping software.https://blog.icmoc.com/en-ushttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/13-encore-skills-gitlab-loop/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/13-encore-skills-gitlab-loop/I kept re-teaching the same GitLab workflow to Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, until an MR shipped with no issue number linked — so I built one skills library that talks to all three.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/11-vc-intelligence-platform/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/11-vc-intelligence-platform/What it actually takes to build a venture capital intelligence platform — data quality problems, 30+ integrations, and the infrastructure that makes it run at 3am.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/10-postgres-replication/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/10-postgres-replication/What it actually takes to get Postgres streaming replication working between two local VMs — without skipping the parts that matter.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/09-github-trending/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/09-github-trending/I wanted to track what was rising on GitHub each week without manually scrolling. A Node.js script became a full React app — here's what that journey looked like.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/01-bamboohr-mcp/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/01-bamboohr-mcp/I wanted to let any LLM talk to BambooHR's API. Three days later I had a production MCP server in TypeScript. Here's exactly what I built and what surprised me along the way.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/03-bookmark-dashboard/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/03-bookmark-dashboard/Replacing the new tab page with something actually useful — how I built a bookmark dashboard powered by agentic AI, and what I'd do differently.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/04-agentic-ai-ranbot/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/04-agentic-ai-ranbot/Autonomous workflows sound great until they hit the real world. Twelve months of running agentic systems in production, and the lessons I keep coming back to.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/14-excalidraw-recording/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/14-excalidraw-recording/I kept losing forty minutes to captions and cropping after every client walkthrough, until I built a whiteboard that records, transcribes, and exports itself.Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/05-ten-years-rails/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/05-ten-years-rails/Not a framework review. A personal account of which Rails patterns aged well, which didn't, and what I've built that I'm still proud of.Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/06-trendshop/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/06-trendshop/How we built a social fashion platform powered by AI recommendation — what worked, what the users actually wanted, and the pivot we almost didn't make.Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/08-workflowpro/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/08-workflowpro/How I built an approval workflow system for an elevator manufacturer that ran three years without downtime — and what I learned about getting enterprise software right the first time.Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/12-office365-ruby-gem/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/12-office365-ruby-gem/Why I built a small Ruby gem for Office 365 instead of using what already existed, and what it actually looks like to pull mail, calendars, and contacts through it.Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/07-crunchbase-ruby/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/07-crunchbase-ruby/What I learned wrapping a third-party API in idiomatic Ruby — rate limits, authentication flows, model design, and the V3 to V4 migration I didn't see coming.Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.icmoc.com/en/02-china-regions/https://blog.icmoc.com/en/02-china-regions/What I learned shipping a Ruby library for Chinese administrative regions — and why documentation matters more than the code itself.Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT