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Carmine Paolino

I build AI tools at Chat with Work and RubyLLM. Co-founded Freshflow. Outside tech, I make music, run Floppy Disco, and take photos.

Production Experience Cannot Be Hallucinated

Production Experience Cannot Be Hallucinated

A paid Medium article claimed hard-won production lessons about RubyLLM. The code had not even run, and the regenerated version only made the fake experience harder to spot.

RubyLLM 1.15: Image Editing, Cost Tracking and Less Tool Boilerplate

RubyLLM 1.15: Image Editing, Cost Tracking and Less Tool Boilerplate

RubyLLM 1.15 adds image editing, cost tracking, inferred tool parameters, additive callbacks, and Rails fixes.

kamal-backup: Scheduled Rails Backups for Kamal Apps

kamal-backup: Scheduled Rails Backups for Kamal Apps

One Kamal accessory for encrypted Rails database and Active Storage backups, restore drills, and redacted evidence for security reviews.

Ruby Concurrency: What Actually Happens

Ruby Concurrency: What Actually Happens

Every 'what happens when' question about Ruby concurrency, answered with diagrams.

Making the Rails Default Job Queue Fiber-Based

Making the Rails Default Job Queue Fiber-Based

I tried Async::Job for my LLM apps, hit its limits, and patched Solid Queue to run jobs as fibers instead.

Your Agent's Context Window Is Not a Junk Drawer

Your Agent's Context Window Is Not a Junk Drawer

Strategies to combat context rot.

I Built a Monitor Configuration Tool for Hyprland

I Built a Monitor Configuration Tool for Hyprland

A spatial TUI editor with drag-and-drop, safe apply with revert, workspace planning, and a hotplug daemon. All in two zero-dependency Go binaries.

Comb Shaped Slices

Comb Shaped Slices

You don't need to pick a vertical. Build for yourself, listen to your customers, and the shape that emerges is yours.

Ruby Deserves Beautiful Documentation

Ruby Deserves Beautiful Documentation

The Ruby community doesn't have a great documentation theme. So I made one. Jekyll VitePress Theme brings VitePress's docs UX to Jekyll.