Who the hell called it "yelling at people to teach them stuff" and not "verbal insightment"?!
Recorded an episode of IndieRails with Jess Brown & Jeremy Smith live at Rails World 2024 in Toronto about my final talk and Becky's new app.
Appearing on: IndieRails
Published on: 2024-10-24
Original URL: https://www.indierails.com/45
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Get 100GB of data (and 25GB tethering) by adding this as your iPhone's second eSIM:
New customers can follow these easy steps to dive in:
- Mobile: Download the myAT&T app to get started
- Desktop: Visit att.com/freetrial, use the QR code or click the link to get started
- Get set up in minutes: Click "start your trial" in the app, confirm your current phone compatibility, and sign up. No credit card no commitments to get started.
- See the difference: Experience the AT&T network free for up to 30 days with no strings attached — switch or stop your trial anytime.
When iPhone went dual-eSIM in the US, I expected a lot more of this from carriers, so it's good to see it now. I'm not clamoring to change from one mediocre carrier to another right now, but the novelty of being able to try without (1) talking to a human or (2) risking a phone number port snafu is almost enough to make me give this a try.
Every carrier willing to stand behind the quality of their network should do this.
My ability to predict which tasks will turn into life-rending quagmires has gotten a little too good. I pushed off everything that I feared would become a multi-day nightmare into October so I could wrap up betterwithbecky.com and Rails World, and… the check has definitely come due.
One reason why economic health indicators are less politically salient today than, say, the 1992 presidential election is that families no longer sit down at the dining room table outside Thanksgiving and hardly anyone has a checkbook to balance anymore.
Extremely Legitimate State Government Guy Here Totally Not A Scam Reply STOP to Block
One of the most bizarre and frustrating things about life in Florida is that the
state government has decided to eschew official .gov domains in favor of a
random smattering of .com domains, for seemingly no other reason than
appearing pro-business. Or maybe anti-government? Regardless, it definitely
doesn't make it easier to help constituents avoid scams.
Here's what I had to do to figure out whether this text was legitimate::
- Go to fl.gov which redirects to www.myflorida.com
- Click to see the list of state agencies, which takes you back to dos.fl.gov and lists the Department of Financial Services' homepage as www.myfloridacfo.com
- That homepage indicates Florida really has a "Chief Financial Officer" role (are Florida politicians just LARPing at this point?) and that it matches this guy's name and lists a phone number matching the one in the text message
- Browse around for storm-related pages and find this page which references (but does not hyperlink to) PrepareFL.com
- Visit PrepareFL.com only to realize it redirects back to the previous page
I really wish this was an isolated incident but there are so many public-private partnerships and privatized services in the state, that it's really hard to tell when you're dealing with local and state government and when you're being scammed or phished.
Want to file a new LLC? You'll want to do that at efile.sunbiz.org. Receive a tollbooth fine from the Department of Transportation? Just punch in your credit card over at www.sunpass.com. Need to amend your Beneficial Ownership Information to comply with FinCEN? Just respond to an e-mail from MyFloridaCorporateFilings.com and oh wait nevermind that one's a scam.
For fuck's sake. Why can't y'all be normal?
Can't say I'm surprised to learn it's hard to keep a professional snowboarder away from high-quality powder thedailybeast.com/ex-olympic-snowboarder-ryan-wedding-flees-after-hes-charged-in-murderous-drug-trafficking-scheme/
Ex-Olympic Snowboarder Ryan Wedding Flees After He's Charged in Murderous Drug-Trafficking Scheme
This version's pun segment goes places
Aaron's reaction to my reading and ranking of his pun submission for the latest version of the Breaking Change podcast
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I've had a bunch of friends and colleagues ask for my advice on how to best learn Japanese this year, and since (1) the last time I started learning it was over 20 years ago and (2) Tofugu's entire business (via Wanikani) is teaching it to people efficiently, my best advice is to just start with their guide: tofugu.com/learn-japanese/
Learn Japanese: A Ridiculously Detailed Guide
Fall fashions
New brand of T-shirt (Bella Canvas) for the uniform. Fresh colors to mark the start of what's next.
When we lived in Columbus, Junko and I would meet weekly in person for Japanese conversation practice. She's an awesome, fascinating person, but she also taught me a TON of practical Japanese and wasn't afraid to correct me. She just started giving remote lessons. Strong recommend: popa-japanese-lessons.mystrikingly.com/
Popa Japanese Language Lesson on Strikingly
Heaven:
- Groceries are delivered by Amazon
- Social media is run by Facebook
- Phones are made by Apple
- Search is indexed by Google
- Games are published by Microsoft
Hell:
- Groceries are delivered by Microsoft
- Social media is run by Apple
- Phones are made by Facebook
- Search is indexed by Amazon
- Games are published by Google
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Great blog post about how to build a Ruby LSP add-on that I'm totally linking to because it uses my Standard add-on as a case study. railsatscale.com/2024-10-03-the-ruby-lsp-addon-system/
An Introduction to the Ruby LSP Add-on System | Rails at Scale
Thanks to the broad assortment of folks who reached out to wish us safety today. As it turns out, we bailed outta Orlando and drove to Savannah in order to escape Milton. ✌️
Love that command-shift-D means "Send" in Apple Mail and "Discard Draft" in Gmail.
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iPhone 12 and later contains a barometric altimeter, so it knows when you're at high altitude and the accelerometer knows when you're traveling at high velocity… so why can't the iPhone just enable Airplane Mode automatically? Why do I have to do it?
Everybody needs a hobby.
Maybe I'll start posting more photos.