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Here, you will find posts, links, and more about code (primarily Ruby), business (bootstrapped SaaS), and a little of everything in between.

Apple's app marketplace is such a massive competitive advantage for Vision Pro. The day it is released, having access to everything iOS (and iPadOS) is an enormous barrier to entry. I am trying to understand how anyone else remotely competes.

Coupled with access to the apps on your Mac and it feels like it is already game over. The price to start is steep, and there is that dangling cord in the back, but I am betting in the short run, this leads to even more Macs being sold as well.

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Vision Pro Initial Thoughts

I had a chance to watch the Vision Pro video. I am far more into for work than entertainment. I rarely watch TV and don't FaceTime/Chat/etc. often. But what I do for hours every day is stand at a desk and navigate many app windows across three monitors.

The thought of a simple desk with just a quality keyboard and my MBP on it is very appealing, even at the $3,500+ price tag (cheaper than the Pro Display šŸ˜„).

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Destructuring in Ruby 3

How improved pattern matching and rightward assignment make it possible to ā€œdestructureā€ hashes and arrays in Ruby 3.

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SuperGlue

Use classic Rails to build rich React Redux applications with NO APIs and NO client-side routing.

Interesting project. I enjoy React for UI, but once you start needing server side data I find it hard to continue. Probably not for me, but in a pinchā€¦

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I listened to Outlived and need to go back and read the book to pull out some more details.

In the meantime, I have moved on to Kelly (and Juliet) Starrettā€™s latest: ā€œBuilt to Moveā€ which has me sitting on the floor reading book and writing this post.

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This is more of a note for my future self: If you need to use Markdoc you place them in the public folder.

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Iconify

Iconify makes it easy to avoid vendor lock-in. You can use many open source icon sets with a large choice of open source icon components. Thousands of high quality icons from 100+ icon sets, all validated, cleaned up, optimised and always up to date.

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