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One of the small joys of computer programming is reading some code and thinking aha, that’s nice.

The following is one of those posts where I share some concrete memories/experiences that I associate with some musings, but otherwise doesn’t really have a strong point other than I want to write it down.

It’s possible to programmatically upload images to GitHub Issues, Pull Requests and Comments via automation.

I was recently part of a Mastodon discussion about the best way to run code in a Rails application before Puma boots.

The following is some notes I’ve collected over my twenty years of career, some in tech, some in nonprofit and academia and government, and some as a strategic planning consultant.

I’ve been working professionaly with Ruby on Rails for nearly 15 years (I’m also the author of GoodJob and Spectator Sport).

I like Hotwired Turbo like I liked UJS (Unobtrusive Javascript): it adds a few small but helpful tricks to my application’s toolbox.

The second Iraq War started during Spring Break of my sophomore year of university.

This post is mostly a reaction and reflection on Jon Sully’s “Generative AI and Tech Writing: The Right Answer is to Disclose.”

From Benji Edward’s “10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents” describing the challenge of maintaining novelty during AI coding: Due to what might poetically be called “preconceived notions” baked into a coding model’s neural netw…