It blows my mind every day that the software I use the most day to day is almost 50 years old. There's also not an editor out there that has the higher potential for LLM integration, given every buffer is programmable by default. #emacs

I got a line on some primo pure uncut acetominaphen

I was very much hoping this wasn't going down a dark path.

Freedom, another member of the Ruby Central Board, wrote this post, but it closely aligns with my feelings and experiences as well. apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-me...

I’m not sure how much I like the new Liquid Glass bit from apple. The screen kinda feels more cluttered but maybe that’s a boomer take. That being said, the animations are snappier and things feel more responsive. That is what I love about iOS 26 so far.

I've been leading the data infrastructure efforts at my job (I used to work as a Data Engineer in big tech) and the stack we've landed on is so enjoyable to work with. @dagster.io - Orchestration @duckdb.org - Database @motherduck.com - Data Warehouse/storage DBT - Data modeling

One piece of tech I’ve been nerding out on this year has been DuckDB. This is one of the reasons why: > …you could enrich a local customers table with user behavior data from a 10-billion-row Parquet file stored on S3–all in one SQL query.. motherduck.com/blog/pg-duck...

Oof been off this app way to long. X is such a shit show, but tech Twitter yields enough interesting stuff I haven't been able to pry myself away....

Another question for developers who’ve started an app: - How did you handle payments? Specifically for subscriptions. Reading through Stripe pricing info it seems like pricing for “recurring billing” capability is ~$600 USD per month. Any chance I misunderstood this?

To all my friends that have built and launched an app I need some suggestions: What did you use for: - Creating your Privacy Policy? - Creating your ToS Agreement? - Creating that annoying cookie opt-in-out thing? I'm building a rails app and need to implement these things and would love thoughts

What are folks using to generate a basic ToS and cookie agreements for their apps?

Let's do a community readalong of @sandimetz.bsky.social's Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (#POODR). We'll read a chapter per week with prompts and conversation on @thestorygraph.com. We'll start on Jan 8th and the first chapter is due on Jan 15th. app.thestorygraph.com/readalongs/5...

So in 2024 I read a total of 26 books. Highlights include: - Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weird - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch - Hyperion by Dan Simmons There were a bunch of other books I read and enjoyed as well. My goal for 2025 is 50 books 💪

Just finished Wind and Truth last night and now I have to wait ~9 years to find out what happens next. _Storms_. Read all of the Stormlight Archives between September and now. Around ~6,000 pages and I have no idea what to do with myself now.

Too much is happening this week. Tomorrow is Path of Exile 2 early access AND Wind and Truth releases. Welp. Going to no life it up I guess 😅

The definition of DRY, from "The Pragmatic Programmer" > Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system. It has never been about whether you repeat lines of code. Never.

Good morning to everyone except the person who almost hit me in a roundabout this morning illegally crossing lanes to go to the next exit point while I was taking my kids to school.

So I updated the post jd.codes/posts/kamal-... to be correct and noted the mistake I had made. Now everything works 🚀

Ok issue has been resolved. I posted on Reddit and someone linked me to a commit lol www.reddit.com/r/rails/s/wi... Solution was to tell Kamal that the App server IP was the internal one not the public one then leave the ssh config to proxy through the public IP. Seems obvious in retrospect lolol

We also monitor your rizz and alert you if it dips below the cringe threshold

Ok I may have misunderstood something here. So if I try to get to my prod rails console with the proxy, the SSH connection uses itself as a proxy to itself and then dies? wat? If I disable the ssh proxy in the Kamal configuration it works…. Huh? So how do I manage the accessory without the proxy?

Here’s the setup I used for deploying a #Rails 8 with #Kamal whose DB server is accessible via a private network. Truly exhilarating stuff lolol jd.codes/posts/kamal-...

First Kamal/Rails 8 deploy down!

I've had several folks throughout my career express a level of intimidation about using Emacs to me. I'm not huge into the Emacs vs Vim vs VSCode thing, but one thing Emacs does better than every other app I've ever used, is having incredible documentation and help navigation natively in the editor.

I love ERB, but wow, why does commenting out a block of code have to feel like a boss battle?

For a long time I’ve been using Iosevka Comfy github.com/protesilaos/... as my font for everything. I’ve tried switching to Jetbrains Mono, or Fira Code Mono but every font seems squished now.

This fight would’ve never happened without Vine.

As kids/teenagers we learned that more freedom doesn’t mean just getting to do anything we wanted, it meant we had a new responsibility to undertake. A lot of people leave that out of the “free speech advocacy” entirely. You can’t have freedom without the responsibility that that autonomy brings.

Rare Oscar W

Wow

Shouldn’t have checked the news.

Holy crap. I just discovered UV for Python docs.astral.sh/uv/ I got a quick project spun up in 40 seconds going from 0 python 3.12 w/ FastAPI, Ruff, and a full venv. I'm so impressed lol. #python

New post up about building Transient Menus in Emacs. jd.codes/posts/transi... I really need to figure out my image situation 😅 #emacs

So DFW airport security no longer requires you to remove your shoes OR remove laptops from your bag. When did this happen?! Getting through security this morning was so fast lol.

People seeing my emacs config….

Rails 8.0 is officially out! 🎉

I'm glad you all are here.

How’s everyone doing on this tense af night?

Almost time to start spam refreshing this.

Something I’ve learned in my 8 year career is that being empathetic to other devs who create tech debt is hard. When I’m frustrated by a corner cut, a bandaid fix, or a poorly modeled implementation, I have to remember I don’t know the constraints they were under and I’ve made my own share of debt.

Tomorrow is gonna be wild.

Writing a plugin thing for PHP Nuke back in like 2004 for my Unreal Tournament 2004 Clan. I for our home page, which linked to our php nuke forum, to auto play Basket Case by Greenday when you visited it LOL. I didn’t think I was smart enough so I didn’t start my career til mid 20s tho.

Was on a heavy Brandon Sanderson kick this last half of the year. Im very excited for Wind and Truth to come out. #booksky

A couple weeks ago, after seeing a few developers struggle with dealing with keeping 2nd or higher removed git branches up to date I wrote this jd.codes/posts/branch... Hope it helps someone else!

only 90s kids remember this Speaker of the House (it was attached to the family computer)

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