Switching all my projects from psql to SQLite was a bit of a PITA but has absolutely been worth it. Keeping with the “do it the rails way” has kept mental overhead low, and seems to jive well with using LLMs.
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Related to this is WaitUntil8th, a movement encouraging parents to sign up in groups/regional block (think a PAC) so there is less pressure on individual kids if their peers are also banned.
For what it is worth, after speaking with a friend of mine that teaches 8th grade, I think this movement should be expanded to social media in addition to cell phones.
A different new website. Abosloutely loved it and I'm sure will be appreciated by others.
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`binding.irb` and `show_source` have been magical in my Ruby debugging experience. `binding.irb` to trigger a breakpoint, and `show_source` will find the source code for a method name, even in generated code somehow.
… I’ve been using Ruby for years and never thought to use show_source like this in a debugger. Thanks kind stranger, you just made my day!
richjdsmith commented on The Enshittification of Everything [2024-07-25] thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/... · Posted by u/richjdsmith
This is a misunderstanding of enshittification. It isn't just 'some product is bad'.
It's offering things for free or cheap to build buy in. Then rug-pulling away the free tier to reap a profit.
Agreed. I think the article does a great job going into exactly that definition.
This is really cool, and very well done! Would love to see it more on a per-user basis, as I share access with my family and do not have similar tastes at all. Perhaps tied in with Overseer API and Tautulli to see what users are requesting, then actually watching?
That might work in southern latitudes where the seasonal change in solar irradiation isn't much different. In the North, like in Canada, there's just not enough solar in the winter. We really need a way to store excess solar from the summer into the winter. Like on the scale of a 500 gallon propane tank.
There is a finish company working on something that might fit this need: domestic sand batteries.
richjdsmith commented on Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware mend.io/blog/fake-vs-code... · Posted by u/tomabai
I recently tried RubyMine IDE by jetbrains after having jumped on the VS Code bandwagon since its first beta release. It has been incredible. Instead of monkeying around for 3 hours once a month because some plugin broke, or some dependency updated and a vscode plugin wasn’t expecting this, I just code.
Back in the Sublime text days, it was easy. I think I had forgotten how complex I had made VS Code. Turns out, paying someone else $120/year to deal with that complexity in an IDE is a helluva good deal at your average developers hourly pay.