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Ken Greeff
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Software Engineer and Health Enthusiast. Sold our last business for $180M. Currently building Clipflow.
We've probably all faced stale closures when working with React so I made a video about it:

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How to Fix Stale Closures in React
YouTube video by Ken Greeff
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June 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Learn how to set up typed, auto-updating route helpers in your Inertia.js Rails app using the JS Routes gem. This video walks you through installation, configuration, and usage, so you can stop hardcoding URLs and keep your frontend routes in sync with Rails.

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Setting Up Typed Routes for Inertia Rails
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June 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
In this video, we’ll explore how to use deferred props with Inertia.js and Rails to speed up initial page loads and keep your app feeling fast.

We’ll also cover how to use the usePoll function to fetch fresh data in the background without reloading the page.

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Deferred Props In Inertia Rails for Faster Page Loads
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June 6, 2025 at 5:20 AM
In this video I will show you how to use OJ Serializer to serialize props and pass them to Inertia Rails.

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Passing Props with Inertia Rails using a Serializer
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May 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
We hired his editing agency to help with our content and quickly realised the onboarding process was costing him big time...

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Roasting Our Content Agency's Onboarding (Live Call)
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May 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
In this video I will show you how to use React with Shadcn UI and Tailwind in a Rails project with Inertia.js.

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Inertia Rails with Shadcn UI
YouTube video by Ken Greeff
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May 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Smarter than a 7 year old? Wake up Mom, Claude 4.0 Just Dropped

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Smarter than a 7 year old? Wake up Mom, Claude 4.0 Just Dropped
YouTube video by Building Clipflow
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May 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
We're excited to announce the launch of our new project manager this week!

After lots of testing and fine-tuning, it's now live and already making work easier and more fun. We've also signed a new team member who'll help fuel our content and marketing growth.

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Progress Update - 23 May - Launching a whole new experience
YouTube video by Building Clipflow
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May 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
In this episode Darrell and I discuss 12 habits that are destroy productivity.

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12 Bad Habits to AVOID in 26 Minutes
YouTube video by Building Clipflow
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May 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The best of both worlds - use React in a Rails project with Inertia.js. We have been migrating our frontend to React with Inertia Rails so that we can deliver the best UX possible while still using the tools we love.

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Using React in Rails with Inertia.js
YouTube video by Ken Greeff
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May 16, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Meetings and momentum this week. Prepping changes to our internal task system—turning it into a full-blown project management tool—and laying the foundation for a big leap in content quality.

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Progress Update - 16 May - Building a Content Command Center from Scratch - Bring on the Task Lists
YouTube video by Building Clipflow
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May 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
In this episode, we break down Figma’s bombshell update: a full-blown website builder (Figma Sites) inside @figma.com
. No more exporting to Webflow. No more plug-ins or hacks. Just pure design-to-web inside the tool you’re already using.

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What the Fizz is Figma Doing? the strategy of Sites, Buzz, Make, Draw at Config 2025
YouTube video by Building Clipflow
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May 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Big things baking this week. Interviewed our first potential hires while still getting some work in. Darrell and I were in the same room at the same time for once.

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Progress Update - 9 May - Building a SAAS from Scratch - Hiring our first team members
YouTube video by Building Clipflow
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May 9, 2025 at 4:58 AM
In this video I will show you how to use tools with the RubyLLM gem in a Rails project.

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Using AI Tools with RubyLLM
YouTube video by Ken Greeff
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May 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
In this episode Darrell and I discuss why gaming is extremely useful when building skills for later on in life.

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Why Gaming is the key to being successful in Business
YouTube video by Building Clipflow
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May 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
In this week’s update, we dive into the latest progress on Clipflow as we push closer to our upcoming relaunch.

• Major work on the Media Reviewer.
• The new Overview Screen designs are underway.
• We've got thumbnail/packaging screens all good to go.

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Progress Update - 2 May 2025
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May 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Smarter Rails apps with AI using RubyLLM

In this video I will show you how to add the RubyLLM gem to a Rails project so that you can integrate AI/LLM calls in to the app with very little effort.

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Smarter Rails apps with AI using RubyLLM
YouTube video by Ken Greeff
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May 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Clipflow Just Got a Major Upgrade 🚀

We’ve rebuilt the front-end in React, moved infrastructure to the US, and re-imagined ideation with a sleek new interface and collaborative chat that includes AI agents like Flow.

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Clipflow Just Got a Major Upgrade
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April 30, 2025 at 2:50 AM
In this video I will show you how to add Tanstack Query to a Rails project that is running Inertia.js. We did this so that we could fetch pieces of data that was required in modals and not the page itself.

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Tanstack Query, Intertia.js and Rails
YouTube video by Ken Greeff
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April 25, 2025 at 5:53 AM
In this episode Darrell and I discuss what makes products feel good and the things products do that ultimately make them feel subpar.

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Why Doesnt Your Product Feel Good?
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April 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
In this video I will show you how to swap out JSBundling and CSSBundling to the Vite Rails gem in a mature Rails project. This makes the process a bit more complex and I found it hard to find documentation for this process so wanted to record it in case it helped someone out.

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Migrating to Vite from JSBundling & CSSBundling in Rails
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April 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
In this one, we open up a raw, internal product session to share how we’re rethinking the “Idea” stage inside Clipflow — the part that quietly makes or breaks how content actually gets made.

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Where is Clipflow Going? A Ground Up rethinking of Creator Patterns
YouTube video by Initium Clips
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April 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Make sure you give back to the community that supports your efforts and makes coding so easy these days. Without open source all the fancy new Cursor's of the world would not exist. Here's a video on how to contribute to open source to show how easy it is!

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How to Quickly Contribute to Open Source
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April 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Take a sneak peek at what we've been working on. Super happy with how it is shaping up.

We've been working on Comment Mentions, Real time updates, url unfurling and summaries.

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Progress Update - 11 Apr 2025
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April 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
In this episode Darrell and I discuss how to use the paranoia you face as an entrepreneur as fuel to keep you going instead of crushing you.

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Invisible Enemies Entrepreneurs Fight (And how to weaponise them)
YouTube video by Initium Clips
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April 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM