It Started with a Skateboard Video
Three things I love: making videos, writing Ruby, and my family. It took me almost thirty years — and one broken Dazzle capture card — to get all three into the same project.
Writings of a Tech Leader, Husband, and Dad
I’m Jonathan, the CTO of Loyal, with over two decades of experience in software development for startups. This space is where I share my experiences, insights, and opinions—both popular and unconventional.
My ramblings will be on mobile and web applications, startup launches, favorite books, user acquisition, user experience, (maybe parenting) and most importantly, driving revenue.
How I Actually Use Fable 5 (Stop Treating It Like a Chat Model)
Fable 5 is the most capable model I've got, and most people waste it. Here's the routing system, the loop structure, and the CLAUDE.md config I use to spend it only where being wrong is expensive.
Why We Build Native: Swift, Kotlin, and the End of the "Build It Twice" Excuse
Every cross-platform promise — PhoneGap, Cordova, Flutter, React Native — traded a small early saving for a large later cost. Here's why we build native Swift and Kotlin, with real numbers from our own portfolio, and why AI agents just killed the one objection that used to matter.
Kamal's 93 GB Secret: Why Your Docker Cleanup Script Isn't Working
A disk-space tool showed me 141 GB in com.docker.docker. My cleanup.sh had been running weekly for two years and barely touched it. The culprit wasn't images, containers, or volumes — it was a buildx builder Kamal created and never cleaned up. Here's the script that actually works.
A Scrum Master Made of Slash Commands
Last month I built a Claude Code skill that produces JJG product plans. This month I built the loop that turns those plans into shipped features — one at a time, with persona QA, agent reviews, and a CEO email at the end.
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