👋 I'm Rareș, a software engineer and entrepreneur based in New York. Most recently, I co-founded Contour Care, which we sold back into Commure. These days, I'm building developer productivity tools and software for real estate agents and the New York City rental market. When I'm not building products, you'll find me tinkering with robotics, embedded systems, or planning my next summit.
An article about retrofitting CI, explicit linting, Prettier, and frontend regression tests into a mature codebase, showing how late adoption creates churn and why machine-checkable feedback loops matter more than better prompts for AI-assisted development.
A product UX case for using Google Places as the data layer while keeping your own autocomplete input and dropdown, especially to avoid mobile takeover behavior from Google's default widget.
A short debugging note on why a macOS GUI app could not find `codex` even though the terminal could, and how inspecting the app process `PATH` led to a launchd-level fix.
Custom DNS settings on a Mac can prevent captive portal login pages from appearing by bypassing the network-provided DNS resolver that the portal depends on.
