I could do the hipster thing.

Migrating from a Postgres Cluster to Distributed SQLite with LiteFS

I love me some Postgres, but the SQLite with LiteFS (via @flydotio) just sounds fun.

After nearly 12 years, we finally moved from $redis on KickoffLabs to REDIS.

All it took was Standard to yell at me for a week or so (and my inability to disable the rule in this project 😄)

FTC Proposes Ban on Worker Non-Compete Clauses

The agency stated that non-compete clauses harm healthy competition in the labor and product markets and block entrepreneurship, and estimated that the rule could increase workers’ earnings by almost $300 billion per year.

My favorite 2022 Christmas present.

Mastodon & Microposts

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.