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I’ve reached a breaking point with where Big Tech is taking us.

Twitter Bookmarks were first introduced in 2018, and ever since, Twitter has treated machine-readable access to these bookmarks like they’re pushing vegetables around on their plate.

For PodQueue, I wanted users to be able to sign up with just an email address, instead of having to also pick a username and password at sign-up time.

There’s a number of different strategies you can use to host a blog for your app or company, and for PodQueue I went with the tried-and-true “static Jekyll site on a blog subdomain” approach.

I’ve been interested in printing my own personal copies of some public domain works for a while with a print-on-demand service, and wound up wanting some printed copies of the reference edition of Stobaeus for reading and working with.

For PodQueue, I wanted to generate static error pages that used the same Rails layout and branding as the main site, and while there are many approaches floating around for this, none quite worked exactly the way I wanted them to (or at all) with Rails 6…

After launching PodQueue, I submitted it to many of the usual product launch sites, including Product Hunt.

Rapporteur is a nice simple gem for adding a status endpoint to your Rails app.

For PodQueue, I wanted to be able to respect users’ privacy by only even setting a first-party cookie when we absolutely had to.

I’m happy to finally announce that registrations for PodQueue are now open!

After upgrading my iMac (late 2013, and thus T2-chipless in case you have a T2 chip and the behavior is different for those models) to macOS Catalina 10.15, I noticed that I needed to re-enable FileVault encryption for my startup disk.

If you’ve upgraded an app to Rails 6 with the new Zeitwerk autoloading mode, you may have encountered a deprecation warning like the following, particularly when you run your test suite:

Want to avoid embarassing JavaScript console output in a production Rails app that’s using Webpacker?

So, you want to kick the tires on a new Rails release candidate to check out new features, give feedback, and see what the upgrade will be like for your app?

Often when working with Greek & Latin texts, you’ll find manuscripts referred to using Latin names which indicate where the manuscript is currently located.

I recently switched a project over to using Rails 6’s built-in parallel tests, by setting parallelize(workers: :number_of_processors) in tests/test_helper.rb