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Grant Hutchins

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<p>Software developer in Austin and erstwhile electronic musician </p><p>Author of the Ruby gems pg_search and with_model.</p><p>VP Software Engineering at GridStrong. </p><p>
Formerly: Olin College (&#39;06, Partner), Spiceworks, Pivotal Labs, Stronghold Investment Management, TitleTouch</p>

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    Downtown Austin

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    Kitty Cohen’s happy hour all day Monday-Wednesday this summer

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    Hanging out at the XO Ruby Austin conference today. I’ve run into a lot of old faces and some new ones as well. It’s great to see the Ruby community and how welcoming it has always been. https://www.xoruby.com/event/austin/

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    Scripting News: The new blog discourse system, post 0: &amp;quot;The first thing to know is that all comments are blog posts. You write the comment on a blog that you own. And maybe that will be the only way anyone other than you will ever see it. But you don&amp;#39;t have to &amp;quot;go&amp;quot; to the blog to write the comment. You stay right where you are. A comment is not in any way guaranteed space on the other person&amp;#39;s blog. Thus the spam ... https://blog.nertzy.com/2025/11/25...

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    I’ve been doing a lot more AI Agent coding lately. My pair programming experience comes in quite handy, especially around proactively monitoring what the agent is doing and knowing when to step in and retake control. But another thing that I appreciate is the ability to flip the usual roles and have the AI Agent “navigate” what we are doing, while I actually perform the tasks. If I’m typing/copying/pasting the code, shell ... https://blog.nertzy.com/2026/02/14/ive-been-doing-a-lot.html

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    Had a great first day at RBQ Conf (a local Austin Ruby conference) On to day two… https://rbqconf.com/

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    I’ve gotten pretty excited about the new features coming to web browsers. Invoker commands are a great example. It’s a very simple idea: you can declaratively state that an interactive element such as &amp;lt;button&amp;gt; when triggered performs some sort of command targeting another element. There are several built-in commands like toggle-modal, show-popover, etc. So you can implement many of the most common interactions ... https://blog.nertzy.com/2026/08/24/ive-gotten-pretty-excited-abou...

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    with_model 2.4.0, pg_search 2.4.0: https://blog.nertzy.com/2026/09/07/withmodel-pgsearch.html

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    Just had a great time and lots of good conversations at OpenCoffee Club here in Austin at Houndstooth Coffee in The Domain. Lots of kindred spirits both old and new.