Rick Houlihan
@houlihan_rick
Husband, father. I do NoSQL for grownups. Field CTO for Strategic Accounts @MongoDB. Inventor of @DynamoDB #SingleTableDesign. Opinions my own.
Gen Z is figuring out that it is dumb to spend money on stupidly expensive stuff just because of a logo. Most luxury products are produced in sweat shop conditions. If every luxury brand goes bankrupt it would be no great loss. yahoo.com/finance/news/r…
I am going live this week with the vibe coded affiliate app I have been working on for my son. From the beginning I adopted a security first, test driven development process. CSRF compliance with nonce injection, JWT tokens, strict CSP enforcement and more. I had Claude Code…
It is chilling to see the damage that is being caused by ultra-right politics. In 2021, 42% of Kerrville wanted to reject a $10.5M ARPA grant as left wing waste. Despite raising flood control as an issue 20 times since 2016 in council meetings they ended up using it to pay $7M…
I am in the final stages of tweaking the Claude Coded app I built for my son's laundry business before it goes live. You can check it out at the link below. Feel free to create an affiliate account, register customers and create orders. It uses simulated payment forms with junk…
If you are building a legacy OLTP app then RDBMS is a solid choice. If you need suport for large objects and the kind of data that modern OLTP and AI workloads require then advice like this will hurt you.
PostgreSQL JSONb columns do No-SQL better than NoSQL does NoSQL.
I have been working on this Claude Code project for a month or so now. I have been diligently generating tests and telling it to prune dead code along the way. The app is pretty packed with functionality, so I expected there to be a lot of bloat. Line count says 5.2K lines of…
Our VM was having intermittent availability issues, so I had Claude Code knock out a monitoring page for my son's app. Since the host migrated our VM its been solid. Other than the Mailcow service running on localhost, there is only one critical service that has registered 100%…
The @eigenlayer team is hands down one of the most professional, hard working, action oriented team in Crypto. Their relentless focus on growing the Crypto TAM, rather than playing zero sum games, is beautifully coming in place with the Verifiable Cloud. It's a big day for…
The evolution is here. The age of verifiable apps has begun. Introducing EigenCloud, a platform for verifiable apps, services, and AI, built on EigenLayer, secured by the EIGEN token. ☁️ Crypto has spent a decade building trustless infrastructure. Now it's time to build on it.
Its getting close now...
I have filed 10 patents during my career. 9 of them have been granted, so I have a good track record. I thought I was done inventing things, but the one I am working on now is going to make everything else I have done seem small. I cannot wait to tell you all about it.
I like your style and you have made a difference in my game @alexelliottgolf. Any chance you could do a video on release drills? Curious your take on mastering this aspect of the golf swing.
As some of you are aware, I started this project for my son's business two weeks ago as an experiment with Claude Code. I have been completely blown away by what has been built in this time. All I do is tell it what to do and review the project-logs. Sometimes I tell it to…
My wife and I like the self-guided walking tours from the London City Information Centre. They recently updated the film tour and removed a few stops. I told Claude find the original and put together a hybrid version then enhanced it with Claude Code: wavemax.promo/filmwalk/
Claude code is having problems today. Performance has been really slow all day and now its down:
In 1995 the people that got left behind told us that email was an unreliable FAX machine and the Internet was a fad. Today they are telling us the Vibe Coding is not real coding and humans are better at producing usable apps.
If you want to use AI effectively you need to understand what this means: AI can help you think through complex problems. It cannot, however, think for you.
As I explore the edges of what Claude Code is capable of I have developed a prompt that I use to start every new session. I asked Claude Code to generate a web page with a copy button I can use to tune the prompt for a new project. It did a nice job. wavemax.promo/wavemax-develo…
I think the most important job skill right now is being able to identify when an AI tool is cutting corners.
Claude Code literally feels like Vibe Coding on steroids.
Around 2 years ago I was on stage at an AWS Summit in NYC when I felt a pulsing muscle in my chest. I stretched a bit and it went away, but it came back 2-3 times before I was done talking. I don't think anyone even noticed, but I went straight to the ER from Javits. The CT scan…