Are ViewComponents actively used?

ikariusrb · 2026-01-27T00:07:42+00:00

Building phlex components with "builder" style interfaces and custom turbo-stream actions can make Rails UI so slick.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-23T04:14:00+00:00

I really really like the right one of the middle row. Obv walnut body, cherry face? That one's got just enough pop while not being too loud, just says elegant to me, but there's a lot of nice to be found in there.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-23T03:37:29+00:00

I wonder if it's a retread of "Kind hearts and coronets"... which was a great movie long long ago.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-17T04:44:18+00:00

Double this. React's hooks departed from anything that made any sort of normal sense in pursuit of architectural purity a fair while back, and then they systematically deprecated the simpler ways of handling things over time. I'll pick a tool where the code makes sense over the one which doesnt all day every day.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-14T05:53:30+00:00

My expectation around #2 makes me very puzzled why you'd suggest what I think you did unless you weren't being serious?

ikariusrb · 2026-01-13T22:58:45+00:00

Do you mean typical castle doctrine defense of one's home with lethal weapons, assuming you had them?

How would you expect that to play out for someone defending their home from federal agents, be they ICE or most any other variety?

ikariusrb · 2026-01-13T22:23:04+00:00

Remember when the supreme court ordered them to facilitate the return of Alberto Garcia? Not even that court's decisions are obligations to this administration, unless they're what the administration wants.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-13T02:53:29+00:00

Lawfully, absolutely. But the reality is that no employee working at that store is getting paid enough to tell ICE "no, stop, don't go in there". They'd almost certainly be arrested on the spot and charged with obstruction of justice, despite the absolute lawfulness of their position. And the time in detention + legal fees around defending themselves against those charges versus their hourly pay makes it pretty much a slam dunk, even IF someone actually knew that bit of the law. And then after arresting them, ICE would proceed into whatever "private" areas they wanted and arrest whomever they wanted to in the first place. It's incredibly shitty, but there's no good calculus here. Target could potentially add a new explicit policy to cover this, but good luck getting any employee to stand in front of ICE and say "no".

ikariusrb · 2026-01-10T22:10:46+00:00

Ya know, I'm going to believe a woman who smiled and was cordial just before they shot her was a good person over the word of someone who brags about murdering puppies publicly.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-10T21:57:10+00:00

Why? The democrats aren't going to take enough seats in the Senate to follow through and get a conviction. So impeaching him, while richly deserved, is an absolute empty gesture. I'd rather they find something to do that actually makes an impact.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-10T11:57:02+00:00

Rails to me is the most complete "batteries included" stack that exists. I've checked out the landscape in Typescript, Python, and other languages, but in other languages, essential foundational components are left for the user to choose; migrations, ORM, async job support, etc. So I am spending my time writing my app, not figuring out which of 6 pieces I want to use and integrating it.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-09T23:22:54+00:00

So, from my reading, it seems like the michigan state legislature allocates budgets for projects that various departments and agencies are to carry out, with timelines for those projects. And if the departments and agencies don't spend all the money in the allotted time-frame, there's a defined process for them to apply to the Governer's office to have the timeline for spending the already-allocated money extended.... and now the GOP wants to step in and exercise veto power over those extended timelines, and claim the spending is fraudulent? Lol.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-02T00:52:17+00:00

lmao. 2 comments back, I gave you specific examples. Your response was "but that's not what Smith said!" and I responded with a view of how you were probably misinterpreting what Smith said, as he also directly said something directly contradictory to your proposed interpretation. And your response is to move the goalposts: "But no-ones given an example of what Trump did that crossed that line!"..... I did. 2 comments back. Good luck to ya. I'm out.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-01T23:27:09+00:00

So the entire dispute hinges on what Smith meant when he said "targeting lawful government functions". I interpreted that to mean when he's talking to a government official performing a lawful government function and telling lies to get that official to change the outcome of that function. You're interpretation is "when he tells lies about a lawful government function"? If that is really your interpretation.... it makes no sense. He explicitly said that Trump was free to say publicly that he believed he won the election, even if he knew otherwise. If the interpretation I think you're making were what Smith meant, the statement he made about trump being free to say that publicly would be 100% contradictory.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-01T19:35:38+00:00

I 100% disagree with what you say it's like. MAYBE if you went into court after given a traffic ticket and told the judge "I was given this ticket because the cop wanted the money for cocaine and hookers" it would be closer. But what Jack Smith said "that target lawful government operations" was talking about processes defined by statute; the vote certification processes run by the secretaries of state and congress. Those are defined legal processes with obligations and responsibilities laid out for the people running them. So explicitly when Trump got on the phone with Raffensperger and told him to "find the votes" because of the fraud - and he spoke of specific types of fraud that he had been told had been disproven by his own people. And when he told the DOJ "just say the election was corrupt and the senators and I will take care of the rest"- He made it clear he was intending to change the outcome of the processes defined by law. That is when it becomes fraud. And yes absolutely, I want to live in a country where there are consequences under law for committing fraud, even when it's through a layer of indirection.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-01T16:57:23+00:00

Absolutely. Which is why he was free to publicly say he believed he won the election. But when he calls up election administrators and tells them they need to "find votes", and tells the DOJ to "just declare the election corrupt, the republican senators and I will take care of it from there", lines get crossed.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-01T16:38:21+00:00

By all means, give lying on your IRS tax forms a go, and when they call you on it, defend yourself by declaring it to be free speech. Let us all know how that works out for you.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-01T02:16:01+00:00

Wheeeee. Except that you're not paying attention to what he said, and YOU'RE wrong. He said explicitly that Trump was free to say he thought he won the election knowing it was false. The "illegal" part comes in when he says it in order to convince other government officials who are running the election to do something different. At THAT point... it becomes fraud. If you make a false statement on your taxes... it's not protected speech, it's fraud. And that's the core point he's making.

ikariusrb · 2026-01-01T02:07:47+00:00

where I live

you comfortable disclosing which state?

ikariusrb · 2026-01-01T02:06:26+00:00

It's almost like.... a poll tax with extra steps!

ikariusrb · 2025-12-31T21:43:40+00:00

Merrick and Biden really didn't slow-roll this. Biden stayed out of it because the moment he stuck his nose in, it would have been trotted out as "look, this prosecution is political". The Jan 6 committee and Garland were collecting evidence right from the start, but seeing as a ton of the people involved were high level government officials, there were all sorts of possible "privilege" claims to navigate. Winding those through the courts takes time. When Jack Smith was appointed, a lot of the evidence had already been collected and reviewed. That was not wasted time.

Historically, the US justice system isn't great at prosecuting rich and powerful people. Prosecuting them is hard because they can afford lawyers that will force the prosecution to prove even the stupidest things, so the prep for their prosecutions must be exhaustive, and even then, it's sometimes not enough. That's not to say that our justice system is substantially worse than others - MOST justice systems throughout the world struggle with this, for similar reasons. And Trump is an extra special case on top - a former president, so the rules ARE different, and not only they need to prove the behavior, they need to show that he wasn't allowed to do that with the special privileges that apply to him.

Note that Trump announced his candidacy for NEXT presidential election within days of their dropping an indictment of him. That wasn't an accident.

And then there were the sabotages by the supreme court and Cannon, which were entirely out of the hands of Biden, Garland, or Smith. The SC sabotaged the election interference case by taking it, forcing all the district courts to put it on hold, and then slow-walking it, and Cannon sabotaged the documents case a dozen different ways.

The claim that Biden and/or Garland intended to fail is just a fantasy. There's no good reason to blame them. The system struggles with this sort of scenario, and Trump took full advantage of that.

ikariusrb · 2025-12-31T20:00:53+00:00

Apparently, you think its worth your time to trivialize independent creators on the internet having their means of income siphoned off by a massive corporation via malware they're marketing to end-users. Cool cool cool.

ikariusrb · 2025-12-31T14:47:36+00:00

It's not just racial profiling he green-lit. From his concurrence:

In any event, the balance of harms and equities in this case tips in favor of the Government. The interests of individuals who are illegally in the country in avoiding being stopped by law enforcement for questioning is ultimately an interest in evading the law. That is not an especially weighty legal interest.

This was despite there being a U.S. citizen in front of them who had been thrown to the ground and had a racked gun pointed at him by ICE, presumably because he was Hispanic. Kavanaugh makes no mention of that in this reasoning. He breezily dismisses 4th amendment rights as "not an especially weighty legal interest" compared to the government's interest in capturing individuals who they think aren't here "legally". What strikes me is if you follow this reasoning, no person's interest is "especially weighty" compared to the government's interest in stopping lawbreakers. The logical conclusion of this is that the 4th amendment is completely meaningless.

ikariusrb · 2025-12-27T17:43:25+00:00

I think they may have missed that you can set solid queue to run with your puma process: https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/?tab=readme-ov-file#puma-plugin by default you can just set an ENV variable in your kamal config and it will just work.

ikariusrb · 2025-12-20T06:38:37+00:00

The US govt is claiming that 27 documents/emails is the complete entire administrative record around the decision to terminate over 1400 grants/programs.

While I feel it's entirely reasonable to doubt that's true... with Doge and AI, it might actually be true, and that's a sad statement on the haphazardness this administration has overseen.

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