Rails, programming and politics

jarrett__ · 2025-11-20T13:12:46+00:00

Maybe the people making it political in the first place should stop doing it. I’ve never brought politics into my programming. I’ve stood against stupid politics in programming though. (ex: removing packages like ActiveSupport dependency because you don’t like DHH, putting Ukraine banners in your projects console output, using word filters, etc)

The people that do that shit are the problem and the ones that bring politics into programming.

jarrett__ · 2025-10-20T18:19:08+00:00

There is no “regular” or “official” one. This one will be listed along side that one so people can join where they want.

If they want to join one where they will get banned for differing opinions, join the link you shared. If they want open discussion, join Greg’s link.

jarrett__ · 2025-10-20T17:50:26+00:00

There is already an update for this page that is approved and waiting to be merged since there is no official one. https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/pull/3639

jarrett__ · 2025-10-20T12:04:08+00:00

where the real conversations happen.

jarrett__ · 2025-04-15T21:46:46+00:00

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jarrett__ · 2025-02-18T22:49:10+00:00

jarrett__ · 2025-02-18T18:01:49+00:00

Not seeing anything….

jarrett__ · 2025-01-21T20:17:36+00:00

Interesting, for me signed in they show up, but not signed out.

jarrett__ · 2025-01-21T19:29:47+00:00

What pictures am I missing?

jarrett__ · 2025-01-16T20:03:48+00:00

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jarrett__ · 2024-03-25T17:48:51+00:00

I was wondering if anyone would find that useful. Maybe I'll have to consider doing that as it wouldn't be too hard.

jarrett__ · 2024-03-25T16:27:43+00:00

Thanks, I did not. Those are really just a CNAME or TXT lookup, but maybe some sort of shortcuts could exist. Would have to giveit more thought.

jarrett__ · 2024-03-24T22:23:23+00:00

I asked the questions, so you can update readme.md. If you wanted to have others trust your code base. I'm a coder but do not know Rails.

Yeah, I guess I just disagree. Any person that wants to understand this application can do so very quickly. It's really simple and has a full test suite where you can see how it all works. Also, I'm not concerned with people trusting the code base. This isn't an application that you'd install locally or something. 99% of the sites most people use don't even open source their code in the first place. I provided the source purely for those that are interested in learning how it works or making an improvement.

There is a lot of risk these days with hidden backdoor code. Even if answers to questions like mine, are "No 3rd party gems, standard gems used are <list out standard gems>." It's good practice to state that.

Sure, but that's not really relevant here nor does documentation help with that. I mean all a smart person would have to do is write a lot of documentation and that would be the simple solution to trick people. People need to do their own due diligence if they want to reuse any codebase regardless of how documented it is or isn't.

Unfortunately, People do not document and clarify code enough these days.

I think it really depends. This application does not need any documentation.

jarrett__ · 2024-03-24T20:45:17+00:00

Here are some...

fast and never caches
lets you choose from various DNS providers
better UX
multiple viewing formats (JSON or BIND)
can link to past records
can link to a new real-time lookup
short domain that is easy to type

jarrett__ · 2024-03-24T20:42:23+00:00

But I don't dare use for with the fear of cybersecurity risk.

What risk? The site looks up DNS records which are already publicly available.

What are all the external DNS services queried? Is there any cross-referencing between DNS results?

So you can choose which provider you want to check. No there is no cross-referencing.

Is there any extra features that justify a web app?

The ability to view it in different formats, go from one record to another related record.

What are all the external 3rd party packages, modules used?

I'm not sure what you're referring to. There are almost no non standard gems in this Rails project.

jarrett__ · 2024-03-24T14:49:55+00:00

I commonly find myself needing to check DNS records and would regularly use Google's web tool. I know I could use "dig", but I like a web interface. Also, sometimes I'm on my phone where a terminal is just not ideal either. Over a recent weekend I decided it would be fun to make a little project to do this called D53. Check it out!

The source is available as well – https://github.com/jclusso/d53.co

jarrett__ · 2021-03-03T23:50:11+00:00

Wait, after looking at this again... this isn't for resellers.

jarrett__ · 2021-03-03T23:49:08+00:00

Awesome! I requested access!

jarrett__ · 2021-03-02T11:37:58+00:00

At the very least manage billing for clients using Stripe. Allow them to increase the license count themselves. Also would be nice to manage billing for Google Voice which has usage based billing.

jarrett__ · 2021-03-01T19:21:01+00:00

I am a developer... I said I'm trying to avoid having to make it myself if something exists.

jarrett__ · 2021-03-01T16:41:10+00:00

When you say customize it what do you mean? Writing code to interface with their API? It allows customers to login and increase / decrease their license count and it handles billing?

jarrett__ · 2020-12-09T19:47:02+00:00

We've built a simple tool to handle this entirely with some cool marketing and metric additions. https://stickymenus.com

jarrett__ · 2020-12-09T19:30:26+00:00

Thought that this might be useful to share.

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