At $WORK, my team has been officially using Homestead since ~2017 as our development environment. This is a VM managed with Vagrant, and that's become a problem when we issue people newer macbooks. So I've been evaluating a new first-ish party solution: Laravel Herd Pro.
The team wanted to move the hostname for a static site on GitHub Pages over to being an app on AWS. We ran into a problem with AWS Certificte Manager: it didn't want to issue any certificates!
Fat Bear Week is coming up. The info about it is scattered around a bit, so this will aggregate everything you need to know about the tournament!
On this day in 2009, _why the lucky stiff deleted his profiles and left the Ruby community for parts unknown. This was a grim day for the world.
In my line of work, we have a perennial problem: somebody wants a forms to collect data. Most of Web Development is making <form>s for one person, validating the data, and showing it in a table to somebody else. Some times, people don't want their Web Developer to make a form; instead, they want to make their own forms, like building a SurveyMonkey thing.
My biggest Astro project went live last Friday, so I thought I'd write a bit about using it.
The tl;dr is "astro is pretty okay for making a websight".
I migrated off of WordPress.com for my blog hosting, to my own blogging software. All the important URLs should remain the same. It looks a bit nicer now, and I've got some other functionality running through here.
For the last 13 months, I have been operating a Mastodon (and later, glitch-soc) server. I’ve learned a lot in that time about both Mastodon (the software) and the fediverse as a whole.
There is a lot of Nuance involved, so I wanted to write everything I know down. This post will move seamlessly between social & technical matters because they each shape the other.
Gravis posted a wild ride tearing into the Phoenix Hyperspace dual-booty netbook OS over on cohost. Go read it. It’s good.
Mastodon, an ActivityPub implementation picking up most of the slack from Twitter, can use any S3-compatible object store for user-uploaded images/videos and caching media from other servers.
