My favorite 2022 Christmas present.
Welcome to My Blog.
Here, you will find posts, links, and more about code (primarily Ruby), business (bootstrapped SaaS), and a little of everything in between.
My favorite RSS reader now has much better support for Mastodon. If you want to keep up with your favorite tooter and do not want to get completely sucked in, give Feedbin a spin.
Excalidraw - Free tool to make hand-drawn sketches in your browser. Open source as well.
Steps to use solargraph for Rails projects in VS Code (WIP)
This is quite handy. I am unsure how it would handle multiple versions of Ruby, so I skipped updating the shim location and instead just installed the gems in my main 2 Ruby versions.
A nice quality-of-life improvement in Ruby 3.2 Enumerator::product
How to validate the presence of a boolean field in a Rails model
There is a subtle bug that happens when validating the presence of boolean fields in Rails. Ensuring adequate test coverage helps us find those issues before they hit production.
The quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions
I do not write crontabs often, but when I do, it is usually with Crontab.guru.
Active Record enum form select
I find myself using this on almost all of my rails projects. I am surprised something like this isn't available out of the box yet.
Zion and Embiid moving like big men should not be able to move.
If Zion learns to finish with his right, he will drop 40 a game.
I took this photo on New Year’s Eve.
Tommy Bahama chairs at Costco is the shopping reminder that Spring is on the way.