# Ricky Chilcott

> Entrepreneur, product, people and software developer. On the hunt...

Ricky Chilcott is a full-stack developer based in Southeast Ohio, writing about Ruby, Rails, web development, and enterprise IT.

Markdown versions of every page are available at `/path/index.md` (URL-suffix convention per llmstxt.org). The site also publishes structured agent skills at `/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json`.

## Core pages
- [Home](/index.md): Ricky Chilcott is a full-stack developer based in Southeast Ohio, writing about Ruby, Rails, web development, and enterprise IT.
- [Out and About](/out-and-about/index.md): Articles, presentations, and podcast episodes by Ricky Chilcott on Ruby, Rails, and web development.
- [Posts](/posts/index.md): Blog posts by Ricky Chilcott on Ruby, Rails, web development, and running a software business as a one-person-framework developer in Southeast Ohio.
- [Resume](/resume/index.md): Full-stack engineer and product-focused entrepreneur with 15+ years building and scaling SaaS platforms in Ruby on Rails.

## Agent skills
- [About](/.well-known/agent-skills/about/SKILL.md): Provide background on Ricky Chilcott — who he is, what he works on, and what he writes about. Use when a user asks who Ricky is or wants context before reaching out.
- [Hire Collaborate](/.well-known/agent-skills/hire-collaborate/SKILL.md): Guide a user toward the right way to reach Ricky for work, collaboration, advisory, or technical help. Use when a user is exploring engaging Ricky professionally.
- [Blog Search](/.well-known/agent-skills/blog-search/SKILL.md): Discover Ricky Chilcott's blog content for technical writing on Ruby, Rails, Hotwire, AI-assisted development, and bootstrapped SaaS. Use when a user wants to learn from his writing or find a post on a specific topic.
- [Projects Portfolio](/.well-known/agent-skills/projects-portfolio/SKILL.md): Summarize Ricky Chilcott's project portfolio — the products, businesses, and work he has built or is building. Use when a user wants to evaluate his track record or understand his current focus.

## Blog
- [Making My Static Sites Agent-Ready](/2026/04/30/making-static-sites-agent-ready/index.md)
- [A Shared GitHub Actions Workflow for My Static Sites](/2026/04/29/shared-github-actions-workflow-for-static-sites/index.md)
- [Why I Moved My Static Sites From Jekyll to Bridgetown](/2026/04/28/why-i-moved-from-jekyll-to-bridgetown/index.md)
- [TIL: Ruby's rfind](/2026/03/02/til-ruby-rfind/index.md)
- [Silencing Claude Code Sounds During Meetings](/2026/02/14/silencing-claude-code-sounds-during-meetings/index.md)
- [Simplifying Causey: Goodbye Sidekiq](/2026/02/11/simplifying-causey-goodbye-sidekiq/index.md)
- [Quick Screenshot to Claude or Cursor](/2026/02/10/quick-screenshot-to-claude-or-cursor/index.md)
- [The Evolution of Rails View Rendering](/2025/09/25/the-evolution-of-rails-view-rendering/index.md)
- [Building Flexible DSLs in Ruby](/2025/09/24/building-flexible-dsls-in-ruby/index.md)
- [CSS Frameworks: Utility vs Component vs DIY](/2025/09/23/css-frameworks-utility-vs-component-vs-diy/index.md)
- [PostgreSQL Indexing Strategies for JSONB Columns](/2025/09/22/postgresql-indexing-strategies-for-jsonb-columns/index.md)
- [Mastering PostgreSQL JSONB Queries in Rails](/2025/09/19/mastering-postgresql-jsonb-queries-in-rails/index.md)
- [Building Production-Ready Stimulus Controllers](/2025/09/18/building-production-ready-stimulus-controllers/index.md)
- [Mitre Media Rails Engineer Position](/2025/09/16/mitre-media-position-responses/index.md)
- [More Than A Plumber](/2025/09/02/more-than-a-plumber/index.md)
- [The World as It Is](/2025/02/22/accept-the-world-as-it-is/index.md)
- [Brainstorming A Garden Project](/2024/11/18/brainstorming-a-garden-project/index.md)
- [Unity 5 Security Concerns](/2015/05/08/unity-5-security-concerns/index.md)
- [Deploying Unity 5](/2015/05/07/deploying-unity-5/index.md)
- [Repackaging Garage Band 2011](/2011/12/06/repackaging-garage-band-2011/index.md)
- [Forcing Mac OS X Updates](/2011/01/09/forcing-mac-os-x-updates/index.md)
- [Adding a User in Mac OS X Snow Leopard via Command Line](/2010/12/06/adding-a-user-in-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-via-command-line/index.md)