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Meridian Build is a solo operation run by Marco. I design, build, and ship software products from first commit to paying customers. Currently focused on AI, SaaS, and tools that solve real problems for real people.
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Read all →I Added Circuit Breakers to a Rails App and Had to Patch the Gem Twice
Wrapping OutfitMaker's six external API calls in circuit breakers was the easy part. Making breaker_machines actually trip — and actually survive a worker restart — took two monkey patches and a lot of reading the gem's internals.
I Swapped Fashn for Gemini and Discovered Vertex AI Can't Return Images
Replacing OutfitMaker's virtual try-on engine looked like a service-object swap. It turned into a same-day cascade of five fixes, including discovering the Gemini API I was already using can't return images.
A Duplicate Turbo Frame Bug That Broke Three Features Silently
Two turbo-frame elements with the same id, one HTTP response, three dead features in OutfitMaker. No exception, no Honeybadger hit, no console error. Just a click that did nothing.
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