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This discussion of rails controllers vs pages vs resources is an example of something in Rails that seems well designed (RESTful actions and verbs) but in practice serves no one and is ultimately...
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I have that one Brother laser printer that everyone has. Love it. Even when wifi stopped working on all macs for the last couple of years, it's still fine.Here's what's blowing my mind. It was telling...
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The first five YouTube results for "Web Components" are…not as high quality as I was hoping/expecting. They have a mixture of incorrect information, cargo-culting, unclear motivations, and mixed-up...
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Sunday morning thoughts about web app dev:• Why are we endlessly making DSLs for browser testing when the browser has a nice API for examining and manipulating the DOM?• Why does Rails use Rake for...
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I've been a staunch supporter of the browser "Doesn't Work" for years and years, and I still have to have "Ugly" and "Spies On You" installed.• 20% of the reason is bad web devs making sites that only...
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I'm looking to use ERB/ERUBI/Tilt outside of Rails but have `<%= ` escape html by default. I cannot figure out how Rails achieves this.Anyone...
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The lengths Rails goes to to enable this:```erb<%= form_for(Widget) do %><h1>Inside form</h1><% end %>```is amazing. It has to subclass Erubi::Engine and override most...
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You want do writedef form_form(x,&block)"<form action=‘#{x.path}’ “>#{ yield }</form>”endbut you can't with Erubi. You must do this:def form_for(x,&block) b =...
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(Also, how cool/scary is it that you can access the local variables of a block and mess with them? 😈)
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ERB's oddness is making me rethink HTML templating. What if our HTML templates where HTML/XML and we used Nokogiri?https://gist.github.com/davetron5000/c478abacb064900fea15183b0db6b78bI'm not sure what...
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Stopped wearing my Apple Watch for a few months. Partly because it prevented phone calls from ringing and partly just its ugly. In Aug, I’m wearing it again for health tracking. So far, I rarely get...
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Anyone else having iOS re-confirm location services for all apps? Home and Weather have asked me so many times and “Always Allow” is no longer an option. It feels like SSO at a BigCo
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Matthew Sweet station on eg Apple Music will eventually lead to the promised land: Sugar’s “If I Can’t Change Your Mind”When you hear DaDa’s “Dizz Knee Land” you are on the right course. The journey is...
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Reading about Service Workers which don't seem to be what I consider workers and don't provide any services - they let you cache stuff for offline use. They seem well designed. But the name just...
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If I have a threads user , how do I follow them on here? I can’t figure out how to find them to click follow.
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Just had a customer service person confirm the spelling of my name:"D as in David, A as in Adam, V as in Victor, I as in Ida, D as in David”I mean…technically correct.
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I just kills me that Jobs was known to derisively call Dropbox a "feature not a product" and yet iCloud downloads stuff at the speed of a 9600 baud modem
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For whatever reason, my parents' Apple TV lost its WiFi credentials. Parental controls are so insufficient, it cannot be believed, because I'm sure they clicked around and did it. BUT, not the...
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Using External IDs in addition to primary keys (this was a clarification of a discussioin with @schpet on Lobsters about his "cool_id” library, which looks…cool...
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I love email. I have a well managed inbox and rely heavily on it as well as the ability to search the archive. And it’s not tied to any tech company’s valuation or stock price....
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