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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.
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.
As part of an effort to stop relying on a couple big platforms for Everything I do on the web, I’ve been returning to some tools from the era Before.
In my Laravel app, I wrote an abstract class that has a fair bit of stand-alone behaviour. I wanted to test this directly instead of via the implementations...
When you’re using an RDS Aurora Serverless DB instance with Laravel Vapor, you have the option to scale it down to zero capacity units when it’s been idle. This is great for development environments — it only takes a few seconds to come back up, and while it’s hibernating, you’re saving loads of money.
One downside is that your migrations may fail during deployments. When Vapor goes to run the php artisan migrate command, RDS often won’t wake up before Laravel’s DB connection attempt times out...