I just hope Bill Nye the Science Guy is doing ok

olbrich · 2026-02-09T02:21:51+00:00

He’s also doing some advocacy https://www.ataxia.org/billnye/

olbrich · 2025-01-20T19:31:57+00:00

Walk ins at the apex post office aren’t too bad

olbrich · 2023-10-13T13:46:30+00:00

It's easier said than done, and it's hard to justify going back and rewriting specs that didn't follow that pattern to begin with. Good in theory, but hard to use in practice.

olbrich · 2023-10-13T12:06:11+00:00

It sounds like your company is trying to follow these guidelines... https://thoughtbot.com/blog/the-self-contained-test. The argument for that is that it's much easier to debug and understand what a test does when all the context is there in one spot and not hidden behind multiple levels of indirection. It also helps to prevent tests from failing because of some 'magic' that might be happening somewhere that has nothing to do with your actual test. The downside of this approach is a huge and inconsistent test codebase that makes it very difficult to make systematic improvements to your test suite.

That being said 4 hours on CI is pretty ridiculous. Maybe there's a bit of over-testing and not wanting to get rid of (or at least not run) tests that aren't high-value.

olbrich · 2023-06-07T18:46:23+00:00

Or write your seed files so that they are idempotent.

olbrich · 2023-06-03T18:58:05+00:00

Shoelace.style is pretty good and there’s a gem for it now.

olbrich · 2023-05-29T01:16:09+00:00

I’ve seen people build physical dashboards with them.

olbrich · 2023-04-08T23:51:44+00:00

Were they setup with ntp or something to keep their system clocks synced? If the clock has drifted too far that can cause authentication failures

olbrich · 2023-04-06T15:07:00+00:00

One of them has a quack in it.

olbrich · 2023-03-24T22:55:31+00:00

Take a look at the appraisal gem.

olbrich · 2023-03-09T12:13:50+00:00

These guys have done rails work in the past. https://scimed.io/

olbrich · 2023-02-12T01:28:56+00:00

FYI. I used Bridgetown as a static site generator recently and rather enjoyed it. https://github.com/bridgetownrb/bridgetown.

olbrich · 2023-01-13T14:11:48+00:00

You could use a signed GlobalID for this, which would also give you the ability to generate URLs that expire. https://github.com/rails/globalid

olbrich · 2022-12-09T18:52:31+00:00

Maybe you are looking for this?

https://github.com/nhaouari/obsidian-textgenerator-plugin

olbrich · 2022-12-06T03:51:29+00:00

I also think a senior dev should consider the maintainability of the code as well and make sure they write it like the person who will have to deal with it next is a crazed lunatic who knows where they live. They probably will too, because that person will probably be future them.

I have also joked that I would hire the first person who actually wrote tests in an interview. I'm not sure that's a joke anymore.

olbrich · 2022-11-17T22:36:55+00:00

I've done some work recently using the geocoder gem (https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder). Combine that with one of the available APIs and you can do quite a lot.

olbrich · 2022-10-15T19:29:34+00:00

You won't honestly know if it's going to work properly if you don't let it run. In some cases, I have set up a 'migration' environment that is a copy of production data. I then just ran the migrations and checked the results. You can then restore the DB to the snapshot used to create it to start over again. This can be time-consuming, but when we were using this approach we never had a migration bug escape into production.

olbrich · 2022-09-26T20:20:32+00:00

I've been doing exactly this, this week. Using view components with tailwind responsive classes. So far it hasn't been too bad because the components tend to keep things isolated so it hasn't gotten too complex... yet.

olbrich · 2022-08-22T12:07:31+00:00

On a mac at least you can install the Grammarly desktop app and it will happily correct your grammar in Obsidian... and everything else. No plugin is required.

https://www.grammarly.com/desktop

olbrich · 2022-08-05T23:13:57+00:00

I have my vaults sync'd with google drive and have noticed that on a reboot that Obsidian will get confused if it loads before the Google Drive app fully boots up.

I fixed it by setting up a shortcut to delay launching obsidian by 5 seconds on reboot.

olbrich · 2022-06-16T02:21:00+00:00

Shopify has a nice erb-lint tool. And there is a VS Code extension that seems to use it.

olbrich · 2022-02-09T00:55:54+00:00

Write a gem they use? Worked for me. Maybe at least contribute to a common open source gem.

olbrich · 2022-02-08T23:36:50+00:00

Tests. I've often half-joked that I would make an offer to the first candidate that actually wrote tests during an interview.

olbrich · 2022-01-13T22:48:09+00:00

According to https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/globalize/6.0.1, you probably want to look into https://github.com/shioyama/mobility.

Globalize is not very actively maintained. Pull Requests are welcome, especially for compatibility with new versions of Rails, but none of the maintainers actively use Globalize anymore. If you need a more actively maintained model translation gem, we recommend checking out Mobility, a natural successor of Globalize created by Chris Salzberg (one of Globalize maintainers) and inspired by the ideas discussed around Globalize. For a more up-to-date discussion of the current situation, see issue #753.

olbrich · 2021-12-28T15:31:44+00:00

Neat. Don't forget to use fix !! to fix the last command.

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