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wood, 1 day ago to random

I was recording a podcast with @jnunemaker today, and he had some great writing advice: when inspiration strikes, stop and write the first draft immediately. The idea is that your energy comes through in the words you write. When you care about something, people can tell. On the flip side, when writing feels like a chore, your writing suffers.

wood, 9 days ago to random

Just bought The Rails 7 Way and Patterns of Application Development Using AI by Obie Fernandez 🎉

I’m particularly excited to read the AI one, I want to up my game.

https://leanpub.com/u/obie

wood, 13 days ago to ruby

This year, @rubycentral announced that 2025 will be the last @railsconf. While I’m sad to lose a favorite Ruby conference, it’s for the best. The Ruby Central team will be able to focus on their core mission: supporting the Ruby language.

https://rubycentral.org/news/anewearforrubycentralevents/

#Ruby #RubyOnRails #RailsConf

wood, 17 days ago to random

Matz is nice and so we are nice

wood, 1 month ago to random

Some new @honeybadger stickers just arrived

wood, 2 months ago to random

Saturday morning cartoons with the kids. Heroes in a half shell.

wood, 3 months ago to random

I was digging through some old pictures last night and came across this screenshot of Hacker News on the day Steve Jobs died.

baweaver, 3 months ago to random

Say I wanted to learn Java and Go, what are folks favorite resources? Thumbing through a few online courses and challenge sites at the moment.

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

man i hate the mastodon/bluesky fighting

wood, 3 months ago to books

I want to read at least a few technical/theory books this year. What do you recommend? Here are some ideas I already have.

First on my list: High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails by @andatki

https://pragprog.com/titles/aapsql/high-performance-postgresql-for-rails/

I’d take similar recommendations for either Ruby/Rails, databases, or software architecture/design.

#Books #Programming #Monitoring #DevOps #Observability #Ruby #RubyOnRails

wood, 3 months ago to ruby

Great to see more people catching on to ClickHouseDB. We’re using ClickHouse at
@honeybadger to power our upcoming logging/observability tool (Honeybadger Insights).

We’re also benchmarking a replacement backend for #Elasticsearch. Looks like quite a performance gain so far!

Will hopefully have more to share soon, but in the meantime we discussed this on the latest episode of @FounderQuest. Give it a listen:

https://share.transistor.fm/s/d67618cc?t=15m15s

#Ruby #RubyOnRails #Monitoring #Observability #ClickHouse

wood, 3 months ago to random

Xbox or PlayStation and why?

wood, 3 months ago to random

What are you most excited about in web development in 2024?

wood, 3 months ago to ruby

Just learned that Exceptional Creatures was #1 on Hacker News last night. I love all the comments like “that’s so Ruby” and “I miss Ruby” and “this is why I love the Ruby community!” 🥹

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163828

#Ruby #RubyOnRails

wood, 3 months ago to ruby

Reply with your favorite quotes from Ruby developers.

#Ruby #RubyOnRails

collin, 4 months ago to random

Snowed in on my birthday 🥳 😂

thomasfuchs, 4 months ago to random

Having immigrated legally to the US, this is upsetting to me not only because of the horrific Nazi stench of it but also because it makes me somehow "superior".

The racist dehumanization of people here is truly stunning and Americans should be ashamed of themselves.

wood, 5 months ago to UI

Developers: when using a new product, do you like those feature tours that pop up to help guide you through the UI?

If yes, what makes a good one? If no, how do you prefer to learn instead?

#Product #UI #UX #Design #Ruby #RubyOnRails #Laravel

wood, 5 months ago to Futurology

I will not indoctrinate my children into the correct pronunciation of "gif." I will let them decide for themselves.

I will, however, impart the fact that Steve Wilhite, the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format, stated in 2013 that the correct pronunciation is “JIF” — not “GIF.”

#gif #Computers #Technology #Internet #Debate #Parenting

wood, 6 months ago to Blog

Webmentions: how I used 1990s technology to avoid writing JavaScript.

> When I started building websites over 20 years ago, I used Perl and CGI to run simple scripts, like a guestbook (I wrote my own). I prefer Ruby these days—and Perl has deprecated CGI—but could that approach still work? I thought it would be fun to try. It turns out it does work!

Please like/boost/reply to help me load test! 😁

https://joshuawood.net/webmentions

#Blog #IndieWeb #Webmentions #Jekyll #Ruby #Perl #CGI