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THE PIG-at Combe was a stunning location for the @chamberdevon.bsky.social #DevonNetworking event yesterday. Great to meet new people and businesses from across the region! #devon #business #southwest

Morning #coffeeandcode at @elementscafe on Plymouth Science Park to fuel today's #rubyonrails upgrade work. #plymouth #plymouthsciencepark #coffee #sunrise

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I've recently been trying out @zed.dev for coding a #rubyonrails project. It is *fast*, and (seems) to render fonts very nicely. Overall really enjoying using it as my daily code editor. #softwaredevelopment #coding

☕️💻 Creating a small R&D branch to explore how a large legacy app can take advantage of modern #rubyonrails #hotwire to replace a number of frontend components. #coffeeandcode #software #coding #development

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Recently learned about the `!override` and `!reset` modifiers in Docker Compose files. Very helpful for cascading configurations where you need to remove previously-set values. #docker #compose #devops #software #code

Morning coffee and coding session at Elements Café, Plymouth Science Park #coffeeandcode #plymouthsciencepark #plymouth #coffee #devon #business

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A morning coffee and code session at PSP Elements Cafe working on a project to help with multiple #Kamal deployments, and a new addition to the #RailsOnDocker portfolio. 👉 www.railsondocker.com #rails #rubyonrails #docker #kamal #devops #coffeeandcode

Coast walk near Haugesund, Norway (2025-04-09) www.chrisblunt.com/2025-04-09-moment #moment #travel #norway

Wrote a quick overview / case study on the recent #rubyonrails upgrade we carried out for @exeter.ac.uk. It was a pleasure working with the team and great to see their Rails app up and running on Rails 8 with Docker and Kamal. www.plymouthsoftware.com/case-studies...

Great talks at @chamberdevon.bsky.social #cityconversations this morning. Unfortunately had to head away a little earlier than planned, but managed to catch some of the exciting things happening in #Plymouth in the weeks and months ahead. #business #devon

"Plymouth Software updated a bespoke application belonging to the University of Exeter, they worked with us efficiently with regular communication, delivering an updated application to agreed timescales. Excellent!" - Paul at @exeter.ac.uk 👉 www.plymouthsoftware.com #rubyonrails #consulting

Great to visit the newly-opened #ElementsCafe at #PlymouthSciencePark (and sample the coffee!) A new remote office for #coffee and #code....? 🤔 ☕ 👨‍💻

🏔️ Fjords at Olden, Norway (2025-04-07) www.chrisblunt.com/2025-04-07-m... #moment #travel #norway

Breakfast and coffee at #plymouthsciencepark forum event. Great talks from businesses on the park, and very glad to hear that the cafe is reopening soon! ☕ 🎉 #plymouth #business #devon #networking

🌅 Sunset over North Sea (2025-04-06) www.chrisblunt.com/2025-04-06-m... #moment #sunset #photo

🚀 Two apps moved to #kamal for #RubyOnRails deployments, about to start a third. Stumbled over a few edge cases issues (especially with #Podman), but overall a really good experience. PS. Get in touch if you need some help moving your #ruby / #rails apps to Kamal. www.plymouthsoftware.com/contact

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🚄 St Pancras Station, London (2025-02-20) www.chrisblunt.com/2025-02-20-m...

Who is posting here content about #Ruby or #Rails or any other Ruby framework and I should follow? :) Looking to expand the network of people I follow/watch directly or via lists and that I can include in the newsletter.

🇫🇷 Lille, France (2025-02-17) www.chrisblunt.com/2025-02-17-m...

Working with #kamaldeploy for #rails app deployments this week. I'm writing some tutorials to cover a few of the edge-cases I've found deploying to #podman instead of #docker. #rubyonrails #software #devops

Still find myself accidentally writing (and typing) 2024 everywhere 🫣

Happy Monday 🎉 Starting the week with a new #RubyonRails upgrade project, moving a legacy project from Rails 4 to Rails 8.0 ... and making lots of use of #devcontainers!

I've been updating all my projects to use devcontainers (containers.dev) for isolated local (and Codespace) development. They are a great addition to the toolset, and greatly simplify local dev environment setup. Related updates coming to #RailsOnDocker.

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Chrismas Lights Experience #EdenProject #Cornwall #moments www.chrisblunt.com/2024-15-15-m...

🚀 plymouthsoftware.com is now running on #tailwind4 beta 6. Really smooth upgrade experience!

Simplifying deploy pipelines for some #rubyonrails apps with #kamal 🚀 It's taken some getting used to, but appreciate the conventions & approach. But... I'm not 100% on "manage your own servers". Thinking how/if I could extend it to support managed container platforms (e.g. DO App Platform) 🤔

🌨️ Snow skies over #dartmoor #devon. www.chrisblunt.com/2024-11-21-m...

Writing the proposal for a #rubyonrails upgrade. Maybe Rails 8 as it's now been released - although I usually wait for the .1 release when upgrading. Either way, looking forward to working on it and bringing some legacy code up to date! 👨‍💻

👋 Hello World Hoping to make 🦋 Bluesky my new home for social posts. I write about #rubyonrails, #softwaredevelopment, #business, #valuepricing (and probably posting a lot about #tea and #coffee!) (also see @plymouthsoftware.bsky.social)