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ThocStock

Back in February, I built and released a new site, ThocStock.

Ruby Enumerable#tally

10+ years in, and Ruby continues to surprise me.

Heroku + CloudFlare + SSL

For a couple of years now, Heroku has had pretty good free’ish SSL support. You add your domain, enable auto certs, and enter a DNS record.

Moving the Footnotes on Eleventy

Typically with Markdown, footnotes are found at the end of the content.

Stimulus.js Toggler for TailwindUI Nav

I am using the TailwindUI navigation bar and needed to implement a way of opening and closing the mobile view.

Pry Remote

I have been coding quite a bit with Wepacker + Stimulus lately and leveraging Foreman to make the process quick and easy.

Nunjucks Inline Ternary Operator

On this site, I use the post URL as the ID for feeds. This is generally a good idea since urls should not change...except when they do.

Multiple Instances of Webpacker

I am a big fan of OS X of spaces and usually have quite a few instances of VSCode opened in various spaces.

Revisiting Mac (Ergo) Keyboards

By far, the most popular post on this site is My Mac Mechanical Keyboard Search.

How to Make Rails and Webpacker Feel Faster

I have been enjoying using Webpacker (Rails gem for working with Webpack) with Stimulus. However, it can be frustrating waiting for an extra couple of seconds between page refreshes to see your Stimulus changes.

Tot 👌🔥

This app is superb. Seven color-coordinated notes at your disposal. Hat tip to @gruber.

I have used Tyke for years, but syncing across devices and a little extra space are game-changers.

Via Configurator

I previously mentioned my best experience with QMK was via ErgoDox EZ's online tool, Oryx. Oryx may be the best online tool, but it is no longer my favorite.

Taking Control of Twitter

For better or worse, Twitter has become the de facto information exchange hub for some of my favorite communities (developers and bootstrappers). While I long for the day when blogs and personal sites make their triumphant return, I am taking a more pragmatic approach to how I interact with Twitter.

QMK Any (or How to Setup a Custom Quantum Keycode)

I mentioned previously that I am huge fan of the QMK Firmware.

Turbolinks and Eleventy (and Static Sites)

With Gatsby, I like the idea of using a React router to make transitioning from page to page as seamless (fast) as possible. However, I could not convince myself overhead, and the complexity of Gatsby was not worth the effort. In the end, I decided to use Eleventy.

Ruby Pattern Matching aka Almost JavaScript Destructing

One of my favorite (modern) JavaScript features is destructuring. Ruby 2.7’s pattern matching makes this almost possible, but the lack of handling missing items makes it unusable for destructuring today.

Ruby Literals

There are quite a few I was completely unaware of. Ruby still surprises me every day.

BetterTouchTool 👍👍👍👍👍

The best $7.50 I spent all year was on BetterTouchTool.

I had always assumed it was just for the touch bar/pad, but you can do so much more with.

I highly recommend it (much more user-friendly than Karabiner).