Shout out to Dave from Ypsilanti who requested bids from contractors for a bathroom remodel on Angie's List and entered my cell phone number. 30 calls and 20 texts in the last 24 hours. Cool.

Annnnnd just got burned by #8 yet again. Glad I made this list so I could keep straight which bug I'm encountering justin.searls.co/posts/2023-buggies/

I had honestly never thought about shipping Standard with Rails, but now that you mention it… github.com/rails/rails/issues/50456

$ rails new -d postgresql -c tailwind -a propshaft --skip-docker --skip-action-mailer --skip-action-mailbox --skip-jbuilder

Just saw the phrase "food desert" misspelled as "food dessert" and, would you believe it, it profoundly changed the meaning of the sentence.

Every time I get asked to review a document, I'll leave several paragraphs of feedback about one of the first few sentences, exhaust myself, and then give up and close the window. #secret

Who the hell decided to call it "rendering to the shadow DOM" and not "shadow-boxing"?

I have a "private client" account at a regional bank, not because I want to talk to anyone, but because it gets you the lowest fees and best interest rates. The only "cost" is I have to screen a dozen phone calls and e-mails a year as they try to upsell me.

I think I've had 15 account managers in the last ten years. Most of the email they send me is them handing me off to the next one.

Man, Electron just can't cut it. Using Descript to edit a 15-minute video—I'm not even halfway done with about 100 stock videos embedded and my maxed-out M2 Ultra Mac Studio is chugging so badly that I can't resize shapes accurately (about 1.2 seconds of input lag per drag).

Anyone else noticing that the iPhone 15 pro is frustratingly slippery in an all-new way? Becky and I will leave it face down on a flat desk and after 10 or 15 minutes it'll find a way to crash onto the floor.

It's happened so many times I re-leveled the desk (was actually slanted the other way) and checked for seismic activity (none). What gives?

You just know that somebody in marketing at Volkswagen has spent the last week doing nothing but trying to figure out how to cut an ad that takes a victory lap for no longer being the car maker people most associate with Nazis.

Every time someone orders Chilean sea bass, I'm the guy at the table who reminds them that its actual name is Patagonian toothfish.

I'm super fun at parties. Inquire within.

No, sir, it's not OK to refer to your wife as your high school sweetheart when what you mean is that she was one of your students.

Being childless and also petless means that I'm not sure how to best identify myself to others in terms of my life's biggest time and money sink.

"I'm a smarthome dad," maybe?

I subscribed to a paper newspaper after quitting social media last month, and the difference is remarkable. It feels amazing to finally have some fiber in my information diet.

I was really stressed out today and nothing I did made me feel any better until I said "at least I'm not Ilya Sutskever," and the tension in my shoulders immediately released.

I have found myself inefficiently navigating to the GitHub web UI from the terminal, so I wrote a silly little script to quickly open the current directory's github remote in a browser (without relying on gh or hub, etc) gist.github.com/searls/7a54ba1efc3733f7e2ce9c0000718e7d

I am very grateful to Andrew Coleman for suffering all my Docker FUD and general impatience with DevOps to nevertheless automate a pretty kickass automated Docker image workflow for my new feed2gram gem blog.testdouble.com/posts/2023-11-15-from-github-actions-to-docker-daemon/

tl;dr I made a gem a year ago that is very good and could have a tremendous positive impact on how Rails developers write tests, but that will only happen if YOU (or someone you share this with) steps up to maintain it. Read more here: blog.testdouble.com/posts/2023-11-13-the-future-of-rails-test-data-management/

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