Zack Gilbert
@zackgilbert.com
Wfh dad, fractional CTO and building mycpaconnect.com
Side projects include:
rails.market
susanssudoku.com
Side projects include:
rails.market
susanssudoku.com
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Zack Gilbert
@zackgilbert.com
· Oct 22
👋 Hi! I'm Zack.
Family motto is: "Our lives are dope and we do dope shit, even if it's hard or scary." But ask my 3yo: "We are builders."
20+ years of building on the web. These days: Rails, Hotwire. Historically: PHP, jQuery.
Currently building a client management tool for CPAs: mycpaconnect.com
Family motto is: "Our lives are dope and we do dope shit, even if it's hard or scary." But ask my 3yo: "We are builders."
20+ years of building on the web. These days: Rails, Hotwire. Historically: PHP, jQuery.
Currently building a client management tool for CPAs: mycpaconnect.com
Logged my 307th show on concerts.zackgilbert.com tonight:
Of Monsters and Men at The Salt Shed.
Our 8th time seeing them. They were our first date.
Of Monsters and Men at The Salt Shed.
Our 8th time seeing them. They were our first date.
Zack Gilbert's Life in Concert
concerts.zackgilbert.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Logged my 307th show on concerts.zackgilbert.com tonight:
Of Monsters and Men at The Salt Shed.
Our 8th time seeing them. They were our first date.
Of Monsters and Men at The Salt Shed.
Our 8th time seeing them. They were our first date.
Rails friends: I’m looking for a document signing api that I can easily integrate with.
What do people recommend?
What do people recommend?
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Rails friends: I’m looking for a document signing api that I can easily integrate with.
What do people recommend?
What do people recommend?
This is the first time in forever that I've actually been annoyed by having multiple other projects that I need to work on and really wish I only had the one.
Feels like it might be something.
Feels like it might be something.
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is the first time in forever that I've actually been annoyed by having multiple other projects that I need to work on and really wish I only had the one.
Feels like it might be something.
Feels like it might be something.
First Google Nest, now Belkin Wemo being decommissioned.
Love needing to completely swap out half of my house’s switches and plugs by the end of the year.
What brand is the safest to switch to?
Love needing to completely swap out half of my house’s switches and plugs by the end of the year.
What brand is the safest to switch to?
October 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
First Google Nest, now Belkin Wemo being decommissioned.
Love needing to completely swap out half of my house’s switches and plugs by the end of the year.
What brand is the safest to switch to?
Love needing to completely swap out half of my house’s switches and plugs by the end of the year.
What brand is the safest to switch to?
The good: I'm finally doing some marketing!
The bad: it's not for the product, I _should_ be doing it for!
The bad: it's not for the product, I _should_ be doing it for!
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The good: I'm finally doing some marketing!
The bad: it's not for the product, I _should_ be doing it for!
The bad: it's not for the product, I _should_ be doing it for!
Started sharing with a small group of people (<10). Encouraging response, but no actual signups yet. So largely just marketing site/concept feedback to help improve it.
If I had to take a guess, biggest hurdle is trust. Trust in the concept (why should I do this?) and trust in us (why you?).
If I had to take a guess, biggest hurdle is trust. Trust in the concept (why should I do this?) and trust in us (why you?).
Working on a new project that I’m really excited about. So close to starting to onboard the first couple of people. Going to save a lot of people a lot of money.
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Started sharing with a small group of people (<10). Encouraging response, but no actual signups yet. So largely just marketing site/concept feedback to help improve it.
If I had to take a guess, biggest hurdle is trust. Trust in the concept (why should I do this?) and trust in us (why you?).
If I had to take a guess, biggest hurdle is trust. Trust in the concept (why should I do this?) and trust in us (why you?).
Working on a new project that I’m really excited about. So close to starting to onboard the first couple of people. Going to save a lot of people a lot of money.
October 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Working on a new project that I’m really excited about. So close to starting to onboard the first couple of people. Going to save a lot of people a lot of money.
Little guy is finally big enough to be in the carrier.
Giving momma some rest while this little guy sleeps and I tackle some outstanding work needs.
Giving momma some rest while this little guy sleeps and I tackle some outstanding work needs.
October 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Little guy is finally big enough to be in the carrier.
Giving momma some rest while this little guy sleeps and I tackle some outstanding work needs.
Giving momma some rest while this little guy sleeps and I tackle some outstanding work needs.
A while back I feel like I saw a site creator that used a proven to convert landing page structure.
I can’t for the life of me remember either of them.
I can’t for the life of me remember either of them.
October 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A while back I feel like I saw a site creator that used a proven to convert landing page structure.
I can’t for the life of me remember either of them.
I can’t for the life of me remember either of them.
Reposted by Zack Gilbert
Absolutely incredible work here from @hankgreen.bsky.social:
I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Absolutely incredible work here from @hankgreen.bsky.social:
Reposted by Zack Gilbert
- turbo-visit-control "reload"
- forms within forms
- unnecessary event listeners
- chained selects
- LLM spinning its wheels
Join us today, Wednesday and Friday.
Still some tickets left 👇
- forms within forms
- unnecessary event listeners
- chained selects
- LLM spinning its wheels
Join us today, Wednesday and Friday.
Still some tickets left 👇
Hotwire devs!
October 6-10 is the week for solving these:
- turbo-streams, trubo-frames cleanup
- the Rails Way for edge cases in Hotwire
- complex screens
- morph surprises
- janky interactions
- third-party UI components, and more
Pricing & details:
hotwiresupport.pascal.works
October 6-10 is the week for solving these:
- turbo-streams, trubo-frames cleanup
- the Rails Way for edge cases in Hotwire
- complex screens
- morph surprises
- janky interactions
- third-party UI components, and more
Pricing & details:
hotwiresupport.pascal.works
Hotwire Office Hours
A week of office hours to advance on the Hotwire part of your app
hotwiresupport.pascal.works
October 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
- turbo-visit-control "reload"
- forms within forms
- unnecessary event listeners
- chained selects
- LLM spinning its wheels
Join us today, Wednesday and Friday.
Still some tickets left 👇
- forms within forms
- unnecessary event listeners
- chained selects
- LLM spinning its wheels
Join us today, Wednesday and Friday.
Still some tickets left 👇
With all the shenanigans with social media and the dead internet and whatnot, I’m wondering if there’s a way for us to get back to something less dopamine drenched, while still keeping the social and connected parts.
I’m thinking personal websites meets aim away messages meets rss meets ???
I’m thinking personal websites meets aim away messages meets rss meets ???
October 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
With all the shenanigans with social media and the dead internet and whatnot, I’m wondering if there’s a way for us to get back to something less dopamine drenched, while still keeping the social and connected parts.
I’m thinking personal websites meets aim away messages meets rss meets ???
I’m thinking personal websites meets aim away messages meets rss meets ???
So nice of the hospital to include a surprise bonus gift (just for me) of strep with the new baby.
September 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
So nice of the hospital to include a surprise bonus gift (just for me) of strep with the new baby.
I know I’m biased… but damn this kid is cute.
September 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I know I’m biased… but damn this kid is cute.
Wouldn’t be a GK birth without a little F1 while we wait:
September 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Wouldn’t be a GK birth without a little F1 while we wait:
Welp. Just in under the wire for all the outstanding tasks.
Fingers crossed that I can enjoy some family time and welcome this new baby into the world without worrying too much about work for a couple of days.
Fingers crossed that I can enjoy some family time and welcome this new baby into the world without worrying too much about work for a couple of days.
September 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Welp. Just in under the wire for all the outstanding tasks.
Fingers crossed that I can enjoy some family time and welcome this new baby into the world without worrying too much about work for a couple of days.
Fingers crossed that I can enjoy some family time and welcome this new baby into the world without worrying too much about work for a couple of days.
Narrator: there were more tasks.
Best of luck! There’s always one more task 😅
September 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Narrator: there were more tasks.
“raising kids that feel just as comfortable in the woods as they do in the city” - @dens.nyc
Love this so much. Stealing it and making it more of a priority.
Love this so much. Stealing it and making it more of a priority.
September 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“raising kids that feel just as comfortable in the woods as they do in the city” - @dens.nyc
Love this so much. Stealing it and making it more of a priority.
Love this so much. Stealing it and making it more of a priority.
Finally broke down and ordered a pair of AirPods. Tried my wife's yesterday and it was way nicer than I thought.
September 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Finally broke down and ordered a pair of AirPods. Tried my wife's yesterday and it was way nicer than I thought.
Have one more must complete task to finish before baby is scheduled to come.
I think I can do it. Been slowly chipping away at it (and the other tasks) throughout the last few weeks.
Ish is getting real!
I think I can do it. Been slowly chipping away at it (and the other tasks) throughout the last few weeks.
Ish is getting real!
September 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Have one more must complete task to finish before baby is scheduled to come.
I think I can do it. Been slowly chipping away at it (and the other tasks) throughout the last few weeks.
Ish is getting real!
I think I can do it. Been slowly chipping away at it (and the other tasks) throughout the last few weeks.
Ish is getting real!
Hey dads!
What’s something you wish you packed in your overnight hospital bag when you went in for new baby?
Doesn’t necessarily have to be something for yourself either.
What’s something you wish you packed in your overnight hospital bag when you went in for new baby?
Doesn’t necessarily have to be something for yourself either.
September 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Hey dads!
What’s something you wish you packed in your overnight hospital bag when you went in for new baby?
Doesn’t necessarily have to be something for yourself either.
What’s something you wish you packed in your overnight hospital bag when you went in for new baby?
Doesn’t necessarily have to be something for yourself either.
Just canceled a client's subscription that had been running for 13 years.
I had been hosting a mini-site for them despite having moved their main site over to Shopify years ago.
Once I discovered they no longer needed the site, I wound down the server, and it no longer made sense to charge them.
I had been hosting a mini-site for them despite having moved their main site over to Shopify years ago.
Once I discovered they no longer needed the site, I wound down the server, and it no longer made sense to charge them.
September 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Just canceled a client's subscription that had been running for 13 years.
I had been hosting a mini-site for them despite having moved their main site over to Shopify years ago.
Once I discovered they no longer needed the site, I wound down the server, and it no longer made sense to charge them.
I had been hosting a mini-site for them despite having moved their main site over to Shopify years ago.
Once I discovered they no longer needed the site, I wound down the server, and it no longer made sense to charge them.
Reposted by Zack Gilbert
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
Ended up just doing a notion doc and redirecting to it from a subdomain I setup.
Biggest complaint is that it doesn’t auto update for anyone on the page (they need to refresh to see changes), but I’m already in Notion everyday so easy for me to manage.
Biggest complaint is that it doesn’t auto update for anyone on the page (they need to refresh to see changes), but I’m already in Notion everyday so easy for me to manage.
Friends, I’m looking for a good live blogging tool that’s easy to share.
Want to easily and quickly keep friends and family informed about an upcoming event w/ play-by-play.
Ability to add photos/media is bonus.
Any suggestions?
Want to easily and quickly keep friends and family informed about an upcoming event w/ play-by-play.
Ability to add photos/media is bonus.
Any suggestions?
September 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Ended up just doing a notion doc and redirecting to it from a subdomain I setup.
Biggest complaint is that it doesn’t auto update for anyone on the page (they need to refresh to see changes), but I’m already in Notion everyday so easy for me to manage.
Biggest complaint is that it doesn’t auto update for anyone on the page (they need to refresh to see changes), but I’m already in Notion everyday so easy for me to manage.