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@caseyliss I guess you have driven enough Fastmail customers that @atpfm is in the survey as a referral source:
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Me: Signs up with Twilio to be able to send myself SMS messagesTwilio: not a problem, but you have to wait a few weeks to comply with anti-spam measures and be approvedMe: Fine, I get itThe Democrats...
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I had to call Apple for support and a few things jumped out:• They allow you to opt-out of being recorded• They give you your choice of hold music, including silenceFor all of Apple's faults, their...
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Ah React Testing Library my old nemesis.✅ Passive/aggressive suggestions on how to test✅ Docs spread across several libraries that makes ChatGPT the best resource for how to use the library (this is...
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Here is a foolproof way to solve any technical problem, in any language, on any team, big or small. It works just as well in Haskell as it does in JavaScript:Put someone on it and tell them it's their...
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I am setting up a newsletter (using Buttondown) - importing ancient MailChimp subscribers but having them re-opt in. The gifs in the Buttondown "someone just unsubscribed from your newsletter" are just...
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Wonder if podcasts are like family owned business (bodegas, contractors, home improvement): they can supply a living to owner-hosts but are not something that scales up for big businesses....
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Whew! https://sustainable-rails.com is now updated for Rails 7.1, but with more substantial changes. Still the same general vibe and messages, but just a bigger update than usual.If you bought from me,...
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The changelog is here: https://sustainable-rails.com/changelog.htmlThe biggest change is probably the firm recommendation to use ViewComponents. I've had nothing but experiences with them and they...
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Also the dev environment is updated and, I think, a bit better and more re-usable:https://github.com/sustainable-rails/sustainable-rails-devThe scripts in there have been much more widely used by me...
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Publishing on the iBook store is…a thing. They deactivated my account with no notice or explanation. I scheduled a call and it got reactivated. Cool?
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Best COVID policy I’ve seen I years: Suprette Mayra, Culebra, PR. Door is not unlocked unless you are masked. Hand sanitizer is not optional.
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re: Solid QueueThat Redis is fast is certainly a benefit to using e.g. Sidekiq, but it's not really the main reason you want your jobs in Redis. The reason is that you don't want your jobs in the same...
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If the goal is to make it easy for beginners to use background jobs with Rails, the solution is to make a dev environment that is as easy to use as Heroku is to deploy to production.
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As I take great pains to discuss in both https://sustainable-rails.com and https://sidekiqrails.com, to use background jobs you MUST understand how the job backend works. Active Job is just an API,...
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It also may seem tempting to be able to queue jobs inside a database transaction. WAAAY back on here I had a good discussion on this problem of writing to the DB and queueing jobs outside or inside a...
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I have turned off content blockers on macOS Safari, but YouTube just won't work - keeps complaining about ad blockers. I have never used a YouTube-specific ad blocker. Anyone else see this?
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If you didn't see @JoeSondow's post a while back on his bots failures, it's a great lesson in splitting up complex operations into idempotent, retriable...
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