We got a HOT new rule change proposal for Standard Ruby that I’d love more people to chime in on! github.com/standardrb/standard/issues/650

The key to making friends as an adult is to identify people you want to be your friend and then acting like they’ve already been your friend for years and eventually they get used to it.

Realizing that the majority of clever Keynote slide tricks I’ve accumulated over the last 15 years have been to make intangible topics feel more concrete and easy-to-follow. Because my next talk is essentially an annotated demo of real, working software, I’m finding myself discard most of my own tropes to save time.

You’ll never guess whether or not I am finding NONE, A FEW, or EXTREMELY MANY bugs in the Squarespace website editor.

Folks should check out this Ruby on Rails thing. I’m getting an awful lot done!

You know a SaaS product has really "made it" when the the home page's Login link is as prominent as the Sign Up button.

Surprisingly few programmers know this, but mutable and immutable actually mean the same thing.

Anyone have experience building web apps that stream video for the web over AWS Cloudfront? Would love any advice on performance and reliability. Email me! justin@searls.co

Writing Becky a feature for managing frequently asked questions but halfway through my editor crashed and I lost all my work so now I’m fresh out of faqs

When developers have to keep thawing and fixing code during a code freeze, it can cause code freezer burn, which can be REALLY costly to fix

In theory, I really like using generated columns in Postgres (which Rails supports with t.virtual migrations), but in practice it creates too many situations where persisted Rails models lie to you because generated columns are only updated if you think to call reload

Just published standard-rails@1.2.0 - is it finally ready for production? Apparently, yes, because I am finally running it in production github.com/standardrb/standard-rails

Unsure why this is necessary when so few people see your Threads posts as it is techcrunch.com/2024/08/24/threads-confirms-it-is-experimenting-with-ephemeral-posts/

I got so frustrated getting the runaround from my ISP that I filed an FCC complaint and… holy shit.

1. Complaint triggers mandatory contact from ISP within a few days
2. Got a call from Spectrum corporate, super kind and helpful/understanding guy
3. Delegates to research team to look into the issue and have answers within 24 hours.

Government in action.

TIL that inline JavaScript handlers actually define an event variable for you:

This actually works:

〈a onclick="event.preventDefault(); this.closest('dialog').close()"〉

Maybe everyone else knew this, but it took me over 25 years apparently.

One thing I really dig about the AI/LLM boom is that it’s the first time since the 90s that otherwise "non-technical" people in my life have had any reason at all to get excited about computer-ass computing.

Seeing friends and family get interested in how ChatGPT works while improving at how they use it is way more gratifying than the last 15 years of the industry merely training the world how to doomscroll.

I wrote this over the weekend. Whether you use Stimulus or just like reading discussions of nuanced code organization and design trade-offs, I hope you’ll enjoy it justin.searls.co/posts/a-decoupled-approach-to-relaying-events-between-stimulus-controllers/

If I were the judge tasked with breaking up Google, I would simply split it down the middle: with "Goo" getting search results starting with A-M and "gle" getting N-Z nytimes.com/2024/08/13/technology/google-monopoly-antitrust-justice-department.html

1Password has gone from one of my favorite apps to the one I cannot wait to get rid of gist.github.com/searls/7ba37ceb824321e5bd0a89c61bee049f

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