Ben Sheldon (he/him)

I help small teams do big things and help big teams have big impact. And I build GoodJob, Day of the Shirt, Panlexicon, and Brompt too.

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-06-06

Anyone in SF have a 3d printer? I need some clips for my crisper.

printables.com/model/418756-hu

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-06-06

Frontend/Browser/JS question: is there a contemporary 2025 way of triggering a "hey, are you sure you want to close this tab with its form inputs?" confirmation?

... that isn't beforeunload?

Ben Sheldon (he/him) boosted:
2025-06-02

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-05-11

@issyl0 you are a fantastic engineer πŸ’– this is a good true story of "tell me about a time you were challenged and how you handled it" that speaks to your experience and teamwork πŸ™Œ

Ben Sheldon (he/him) boosted:
2025-05-04

It’s not easy being king …

Ben Sheldon (he/him) boosted:

I don't mean to brag you guys but loads of companies really care about my privacy

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-04-11

TIL it's really simple to make iteratable jobs with Active Job (though maybe GoodJob only) by mutating the arguments and retrying the job. A little writeup: github.com/bensheldon/good_job

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-04-07

@tom ugh. That sounds terrrrrrible. I'm glad you're feeling better.

Those work notes you mention stopping. Did you publish them? (I ask to plop in my reader should you ever start again, not as any motivation good/bad to do so) πŸ’›

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-03-26

βœ… Accepted πŸ™Œ

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-03-23

@matth @allafarce @bensheldon I usually leave the raw meat for the end to avoid cross-contamination. But I *could* see that there's some point to letting the salt and seasoning sit before cooking. But that's not scientific.

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-03-23

@allafarce nice! tho I dislike rice rinsing interrupting cutting board work; still need humans in the loop! πŸ˜„

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-03-23

@tom I shared a similar experience to Children of Time and Children of Ruin. 2 years later the octopuses are very memorable, everything else much less so.

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-03-23

@timriley happy to motivate! Pinboard, yeesh πŸ™ƒ

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-03-23

@timriley πŸ’– love this!

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-03-16

@remi thanks for asking πŸ˜„

- real world mocking and stubbing patterns (involving some deep library object/methods I can't control and no "maybe you should design it differently" neg)
- the block syntax that seems to be specific to Rails, and whether I should use that or not for everything
- how to use the test runner, specifically to track down flakes and order dependency / isolation problems
- if using Factories, how to pattern that in tests.

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-03-10

Five years later, here's a presentation I once gave about assisting welfare applications during the first month of COVID-19 (mostly about websites falling over and how my team helped): island94.org/2025/03/flattenin

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-03-09

@jnunemaker Subscribed πŸ˜…

Ben Sheldon (he/him) boosted:

dude 18f got fired fuck

Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-02-28

I got my (our!) RailsConf session proposal submitted. Gonna be amazing (if accepted!) 🀞

Screenshot with the text: 

Confirmed panelists: Mike Perham (Sidekiq), Rosa GutiΓ©rrez (Solid Queue), Maciej Mensfeld (Karafka, Shoryuken) , Ben Sheldon (GoodJob)
Ben Sheldon (he/him)bensheldon@ruby.social
2025-02-26

@jardo United States aligned πŸ™ƒ

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