I liked this post on abandoning a "to be read" list. The deadline passed (I think; I wasn't really paying attention) to export my Pocket saves to .. somewhere, and I did not export them, and it's going to be fine. I was never going to read them anyways.
#YearOfTheBlog
Wrote a post today with some thoughts on consumerism, and a few of the ways I try to resist it. https://cassey.dev/resisting-consumerism/ #YearOfTheBlog
Wrote a quick note on a configuration issue I solved using Devise in Ruby on Rails the other day, when going from two separate login areas for different models to only one, and thus changing the "root" route setting from what was working before.
"Your newborn's cradle cap will go away on its own in a few weeks", they said. "Oh, just scrub it each time you give the baby a bath, it will be gone in no time" is another lie you may have heard.
After we tried a "wait & see & just scrub during baths" approach that lead to baby #1 having cradle cap for like.. 9 months, probably? I tried a more active intervention when baby #2 was around 3 months old.
I wrote about what I did & how it went.
https://cassey.dev/cradle-cap-treatment/
#parenting #YearOfTheBlog
https://cassey.dev/til/local-only-env-variables-rails/
This one documents how I set some particular config options in a Rails app, when I wanted to turn a value on or off in local development that would be always on in other environments.
I wrote this blog post so in a year or so when I am thinking "let's just do it how we did it on that one project - what did we do there?", I have an actual answer I can reference quickly.
#RubyOnRails #YearOfTheBlog
Two little Ruby on Rails-related posts added in my "TIL" (Today I Learned) blog section, even though I didn't really just learn them. I use that section vs my regular blog feed when I want to have short and to-the-point posts that I don't spend too long, on a very specific technical topic.
Like here's the one I just added to remind myself of the assert_equals argument order preferred in minitest.
https://cassey.dev/til/minitest-assert-order/
#Ruby #RubyOnRails #YearOfTheBlog
Time to close so many tabs: this blog post (and talk I gave today at work) is the result of so much research.
I wrote it to solve my own problem of opening some legacy Rails app and needing to figure out what the heck is going on with the JS & CSS assets, over and over again, and then what to upgrade them to when it turns out something is broken in a way that won't let me make changes.
I switched my personal website to #Eleventy and found an unexpected recursive error. Not sure if it's my fault, but I'm blogging about it anyway.
https://johnskinnerportfolio.com/blog/11ty_recursive_site_error/index.html
I wrote a post about my latest shuffle play. https://unprovoked.net/grab-bag/ #YearOfTheBlog #Music
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