Yesterday it took me 3 hrs to debug a problem I had writing to a JSONb field in my database. Turns out having a custom serializer as described on a bunch of pages on the web was totally unnecessary in my case. Rails intrinsically knows how to handle it. Thx DHH and team!

Happy September! What happened to June, July and August?? It went by so quickly.

Sorry to hear that Ozzy Osbourne passed away today. He was a huge musical influence for me when I was younger. #musicsky #ozzy

🇨🇦Election Day Canada!!! 🇨🇦 I’ve been super interested to see how this goes.

This week, I bring you Seattle, Washington

Parliament of the European Community in Brussels.

Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪 In winter, it reminded me of the last few Harry Potter movies. Gloomy but very memorable.

Bruges, Belgium 🇧🇪

Today I give you Malta 🇲🇹 What an interesting country.

Palermo, Sicily

Happy New Year to you all.

Genoa, Italy

Marseille

We’re getting ready to sail on our Mediterranean cruise out of Barcelona.

Barcelona

Es tan lindo regresar a España por navidad. Estamos en Barcelona de vacaciones. Como eché de menos esta ciudad.

First day of vacation in a while. Feels so good to disconnect the old brain completely.

It is the time of year to share my Spotify Xmas list. The idea for my list is many countries, many languages. Currently, it has lots of songs in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, with a smattering of others. If you have additions, feel free to suggest them.🎄 open.spotify.com/playlist/0Pz...

For those of you in the US, have a happy Thanksgiving and be safe on your journeys.

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Welcome y’all!!! We’re all having some good fun here on Bluesky

I really really really miss living in Spain. It’s not that Spain doesn’t have VOX, but I understood less of the politics so I was blissfully ignorant.

How many of you were checking flights to Europe today instead of working?

Ready for another scenery change.

Holding my breath a little tonight. 😬

Me da tanta tristeza ver todo que ha pasado en España esta semana. Parece un tsunami, no una inundación. También me anima de ver el pueblo ayudando sus vecinos.

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Cast my ballot today. Would like to just ignore it all for the next couple of months, but I’m probably too much of a news junky.

Reminder that I have a #Ruby and #RubyonRails starter pack here for anyone looking for their Ruby Friends. go.bsky.app/HD2Ty2o

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How are you supposed to decorate for Halloween if the stores have already replaced all of their decorations with Christmas stuff 2 weeks before Halloween is even done? 👻🎃💀

Thank you Twitter! Your dummy policy change has exploded my number of followers in just 24 hrs. Like a 300% increase. Welcome to all the new people jumping away from Elon’s nonsense.

Getting windy here now. Hurricane season finally kicked it into gear.

Mucho aire de este huracán. Por suerte no estamos tan cerca, pero es una tormenta grande.

Another hidden little Rails gem I found out about this week. Swap out your database engine: $ rails db:system:change —to=<new_db_type> For situations where you wanted to change from SQLite to PostgreSQL to get ready for production, for example. #dev #tips #ruby #ruby_on_rails

Something cool I learned today. Ruby has a built in email regex that you can use for validations. No need to write your own. validates :email, format: { with: URI::MailTo::EMAIL_REGEXP } #dev #tips #ruby #rails #ruby_on_rails

Bem-vindos amigos brasileiros.

Some days coding can be so frustrating, but it is still the best job I can imagine for me. Especially now that I’m able to work with Ruby again. #ruby_on_rails

Euro2024 Vamos España!!!

Enhorabuena Real Madrid para ganar el Champions otra vez!!! Son máquinas!

Today was a day that I’d rather have never had come, but in the end, a necessary day I think

Question….what does the language select option do? I tend to post in different languages, so just wondering if it’s used for translation or something?