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Jakob Skjerning

@mentalizer

Web application developer, consultancy owner, and dad joke appreciator. 🦋jakobs.bsky.social

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Det er skole-foto tid og samtidig min årlige reminder om at nogen burde lave en foto-bestillings-løsning, der ikke er skod 🙄

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If you ever think to yourself "building UI widgets is easy", remember flatpickr has almost 3000 commits from 246 contributors and still has 600+ open issues... github.com/flatpickr/flat…

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8 rapid-fire truths about being a bootstrapped founder 👇 1. You don't need to be an expert. 2. Most of your ideas will fail (so come up with many). 3. Building a great product is the easy part. 4. Marketing is where most founders struggle. 5. No, AI won't replace you. It'll

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Already in alpha-release, Rails 8.0 is great. The Solid-* stuff, asset pipeline simplification, Hotwire goodness, and SQLite embrace all play so well into the One Person Framework idea. These are exiting times!

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Could/should an ESP check and verify DMARC before sending an email campaign - what's the point of sending if the recipient is going to reject it? 🤔 ˗ˏˋ Jesse Hanley ˎˊ˗ This feels like something you might have thoughts about?

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What is the best, preferably written, tutorial to get someone into building their first Rails app when they have programming experience but limited Ruby experience? I’ve had good success with the one from Rails Girls, but I fear it might be getting dated.

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There have been many interpretations of the anatomy of Minecrafts probably most iconic mob, the Creeper. This is my interpretation rendered in LEGO. 1900 bricks, standing 42 cm tall, this harbinger of boom will sneak up on when you least expect it. #lego #afol #moc #minecraft

There have been many interpretations of the anatomy of Minecrafts probably most iconic mob, the Creeper. This is my interpretation rendered in LEGO. 1900 bricks, standing 42 cm tall, this harbinger of boom will sneak up on when you least expect it. #lego #afol #moc #minecraft
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Rails has a method that returns a correctly formatted string for the name attribute on input elements. I've been doing this manually for years whenever I needed to manually build fields! See api.rubyonrails.org/v7.2.2/classes… #TIL #ruby #rails

Rails has a method that returns a correctly formatted string for the  name attribute on input elements. I've been doing this manually for  years whenever I needed to manually build fields!

See api.rubyonrails.org/v7.2.2/classes…

#TIL #ruby #rails
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ActiveRecord has a `saved_changes` method that returns the attribute changes that were saved last #TIL #ruby #rails api.rubyonrails.org/v7.2.2/classes…

ActiveRecord has a `saved_changes` method that returns the attribute changes that were saved last #TIL #ruby #rails

api.rubyonrails.org/v7.2.2/classes…
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#TIL #rails When using STI you probably want to explicitly load the full inheritance hierarchy... mentalized.net/journal/2025/0…