A while back I asked my Patreon subscribers to vote for what set of tools I should extract from the > 50 challenges we've been solving over the last years. Today I can proudly ship the first one: an Optimistic Form Builder, check it out: github.com/TheHotwireCl...

You know, in the arts and music world there’s a lot of debate going on these days regarding how AI created content devalues the „real thing“. But here’s the thing: at least in the case of music, art has devalued itself a long time ago already.

New hairstyle who dis? 🦄

ImPulsar4 is a quadraphonic piece or installation featuring autonomous agents moving sounds through space and reacting to each other's sonic qualities. the installation will premiere at The Factory Salzburg in July 2026 #SoundArt #ExperimentalMusic #SpatialAudio #GenerativeArt #SoundInstallation

Non-technical founders building with AI keep skipping the same guardrails. Not because they're careless. Because the AI never tells you the guardrail exists. 🧵

I've started putting some music on @subvert.fm : www.subvert.fm/programmverd... GO AND BUY IT IN MASSES! 🙈

Hey 👋 I've launched Crow's Nest on Uneed today. Give it an upvote if you like! www.uneed.best/tool/crows-n...

Here’s a short personal rant: Festivals that put out a call for works and don’t issue an artist fee. No, you have to buy a festival pass and bear the travel cost if you’re accepted. I mean I know it‘s a niche, but seriously, wtf?

"How much of your codebase is AI-written?" Wrong question. I stopped asking it. The one that predicts whether your app survives real users: which zones did you let the AI write in? 🧵

Since I'm constantly stressing myself out because I'm either under- or overfeeding Claude, I made myself this little SwiftBar plugin:

Founders coding with AI tend to land in the same place. Version one is a $200/mo no-code stack. Version two is a Rails app on a single host for around $40/mo. The math changes the day you decide to rebuild. 🧵

That Which Is Not WIP #electroacoustic #soundart #experimentalmusic #supercollider #p5js #algorithmicart #electronicmusic #wien #vienna #viennamusic

New challenge! 🔥 Your Turbo Stream notifications are only as fast as your server. This week: fire them before the response arrives. Optimistic UI + Stimulus outlets + Notyf in one neat package. hotwire.club/blog/2026-05...

🧵 When you can't read code, how do you know your AI built the right thing? This is the question that follows every non-technical founder once they start shipping features with Claude Code or Cursor.

🧵 Earlier this month I shipped the first article in the Getting Started series: a nine-step guide that walks a non-technical reader from a fresh Mac to a running Rails app. Then I sat down with someone who actually used it.

And here's the anniversary solution: www.patreon.com/posts/sample...

www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what... I‘m increasingly thinking we will see a shift to open weight, local running models and/or finetuned SLMs. Just yesterday I did some research about speculative decoding.

Here we goooo 🎧 Past Tense at #icmc2026 in Hamburg

Meanwhile, at #icmc2026, some sobering thoughts on AI 🤔

Made a quick video of how, and why I use mycrowsnest.app :

50 challenges in. 🎉 When I started The Hotwire Club, I wanted to build the resource I wished existed: hands-on exercises that go beyond "hello world" and force you to actually dig into Turbo and Stimulus.

🧵 A real lead asked me last week how to start. Claude Pro subscription, an MVP idea, no developer to call, little terminal experience.

Had these made for #icmc2026 in Hamburg next week

aaaand the redesign is in! mycrowsnest.app actually quite proud of it, take a look!

and here's the solution - pretty simple actually, like most of the time working with Turbo, but powerful: www.patreon.com/posts/sample...

played around with Claude Design... mycrowsnest.app is slowly becoming a "real" app 🤩

rrriiiiiiight 😅

It's still early days, but you can now use mycrowsnest.app with Toggl Track, too!

🧵 I audit Rails codebases for a living. This month I did the same to my own marketing funnel - and I want to talk about what that looked like, because the process is what I keep thinking about.

✍️ A new Hotwire Club challenge is online! This time it's about something every developer dreads - unexpected errors. Turns out, with Turbo Frames we have the perfect tool to keep them *bounded*: hotwire.club/blog/2026-04...

I'm currently toying around with a mycrowsnest.app redesign, mainly just to evaluate Claude Design. Which theme lands more for you? Variations of Main Hero, Dashboard, Week View for two themes 👇

You're invited: Help me build the HWC Toolbox! I'd like to further put the Hotwire Club insights to use. For this I'm going to build a library of Rails helpers/patterns - please help me prioritize in the Patreon poll below (no paywall!) www.patreon.com/posts/youre-...

🧵 Two AI-security incidents this weekend. Different surfaces, same underlying gap. 1/ Vercel confirmed a breach. A third-party AI tool climbed through an employee's Google Workspace, ended in customer credentials.

And here's the solution: www.patreon.com/posts/sample... Pretty nifty, actually!

✍️ I wrote this post without help of AI. A couple of years ago that statement would've evoked confused faces and a sci-fi air. People would've doubted it, dismissed it as unrealistic. Today it raises the same kind of doubt — for the opposite reason.

🧵 260% increase in AI coding tool usage last year. 20% increase in unplanned work. Speed without structure is just a faster way to get lost.

New Hotwire Club Challenge! This time it's about saving and restoring application state using the browser's History API. Truth be told I never grokked why I'd need it until I ran across one case where it suddenly all made sense. Tried to distill that into hotwire.club/blog/2026-04...

🧵 Naveed Akram co-founded Vestd (UK's first equity management platform). Not a first-timer. He used Replit Agent to build his next MVP. That worked fine for some time, until it started breaking: sessions dropped, auth broke, zero tests.

x[n+1] = r·x[n]·(1 − x[n]) Everything in Bifurcation III — samples, modulations, filter paths — unfolds from that one equation. Selected for Marginale II, Sant'Arpino (IT), 9.5.2026. Thanks to the Napoli Totale Elettronica committee.

Working on a new dashboard for mycrowsnest.app

Working on a new dashboard for mycrowsnest.app

🧵 ThoughtWorks gathered senior practitioners from major tech companies. They found a new category of work forming between writing code and shipping it. They called it the "middle loop." - but nobody has named it yet.

🧵 The Rails homepage now says: "Ruby on Rails scales from PROMPT to IPO." There's data behind it.

Originating from Vienna I‘m used to a very high level when it comes to public transportation. Going south, usually what I expect - my own prejudice - are cramped buses, unreliable metros and non existent timetables.

💡 and here’s the solution - it’s actually quite trivial because we can reuse the exact same route because Turbo Frames already know how to lazy load. Read all about it below 👇🏻

Woah, getting quite some traffic from HackerNews now. This seems to be working 🚀

Advanced Domain Modeling Techniques for #RubyOnRails – Part 4: A Global Message Bus with ActiveSupport::EventReporter by @julianrubisch.at www.rorvswild.com/blog/2026/ad...

🧵 Your AI agent writes Rails code the way it learned from thousands of repos. That's the problem. It doesn't know what Rails gives you for free.

🧵 (6/6) What I learned I ran four strategy frameworks on my business. JTBD, Obviously Awesome, messaging hierarchies, psychology models. None of them found the thing that actually makes my work different.