✨ Josh Branchaud 👻

@jbrancha

Indie Web Dev ✨ TS • React • Rails • Postgres ✨ Prev. @Hashrocket, various startups. ☕️🐈🥃🎱 (he/him) | For hire: visualmode.dev

Chicago, IL via Nebraska joshbranchaud.com Joined September 2010

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✨ Josh Branchaud 👻 @jbrancha Feb 13, 2025

You know that project you've been meaning to get to for months? It's a thorn in your side, but more urgent stuff keeps coming up...

I can take that off your plate 🍽️

I'm looking to work w/ one more client for the spring. Send me a dm & we can talk about what that'd look like.

✨ Josh Branchaud 👻 @jbrancha Jan 9, 2025

Hey all, I have freelance/consulting capacity opening up for the first time in years. I love to work cross-stack with businesses building on Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, React+TypeScript, and Next.js.

Please share for reach. Contact me here or via my consulting site (link below)

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✨ Josh Branchaud 👻 @jbrancha Apr 17, 2025

My productivity goes to die in a busy browser window. However, I've developed some keyboard-centric Vimium flows that have completely changed how I get things done in the browser.

So excited to share those workflows in my *first* ever @eggheadio course.

egghead.io/courses/get-st…

egghead.io Get Started with Vimium Losing focus and getting lost while looking for that browser tab from earlier is a drag on getting things done. Even minor slow-downs in how you navigat...

✨ Josh Branchaud 👻 @jbrancha Mar 12, 2025

Rails on @Flightcontrolhq (AWS) has been great, but I miss how easy the Heroku CLI made some things.

Connecting to the prod Rails console takes a bit of figuring out and several steps -- I wrote it all up in my latest post.

The image shows a blog post titled "Connect To Production Rails Console on AWS / Flightcontrol". The content discusses the experience of transitioning from deploying Rails applications on Heroku to AWS via Flightcontrol. The author mentions that they found Flightcontrol mostly straightforward but encountered difficulty with accessing the production Rails console, which was simple in Heroku (shown with the command "$ heroku run rails console --app my_app"). The post explains that Flightcontrol doesn't have a built-in CLI with similar conveniences because it focuses on deployment and management on AWS infrastructure rather than being a PaaS like Heroku.

✨ Josh Branchaud 👻 @jbrancha Feb 14, 2025

I'm comparing some Heroku alternatives for deploying and hosting Rails apps. I just gave @Flightcontrolhq a shot and so far the experience has been slick af.

Nice work @flybayer and team 🙌

✨ Josh Branchaud 👻 @jbrancha Feb 11, 2025

A Decade of Incremental Learning (through TILs)

reflections and numbers from 10 years of consistent posting to my TIL repo

The image shows the beginning of a blog post titled "A Decade of TILs" which discusses the author's experience maintaining a Today I Learned (TIL) repository over 10 years. The text includes a title, introduction mentioning the start date (February 6th, 2015), and the beginning of sections discussing insights gained, including a section on "Routine."