𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟭 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 You probably think that such large requests can be handled only by some fancy microservices. The truth is a bit different. Shopify uses a

It’s nice to see a small resurgence in Ruby on Rails discourse on here recently. Modern JS is great, but Rails always held a special place in my heart for its sheer productivity and clarity.

Bit of a holy shit moment. This is so much better than the competition it’s not even competing.

Ironically, the immortals dance like there’s no tomorrow.

This has been my experience more times than I care to count, but I’ve also found that teams are generally very open to eliminating, combining and reorganising things to allow developers to get work done. Just push for it a bit.

YouTube advertising me “private aviation networks” like I’m not eating canned soup for lunch. 😂

Update - I started a new project in Ruby on Rails project and it’s the most productive I’ve felt in ages. There’s so much code that doesn’t need to be written thanks to its opinionated conventions, and modern Hotwire means I’m not finding myself reaching for JS much at all. 👌

Developing my music tastes

4:30am with child 🥲

I’ve been having a play with kamal-deploy.org for a new project. First impressions are really positive. Deploying a complex app to a new provider can be as simple as swapping changing a couple of IP addresses, and it has that Heroku-esque simplicity to its CLI.

Backend code that generates plain HTML responses is still the best way to build 90% of applications

Touching grass every weekend ⛰️

95% of web apps: - Will only ever need a dash of front-end JS. - Will never outgrow their monolith. - Will never have tech giant traffic or revenues. - Are maintained by work-to-live devs. - Are serving users performing basic tasks quickly before leaving. Build accordingly.

Every time I start a new project with Next.js I seem to run into problems I can’t find solutions for that feel as though they should be easily solved. It’s like as much as it makes many previously complex patterns simple, it also makes many previously simple patterns complex.

Tech Twitter drama seems kinda laughable from here.

I’m sort of feeling this. I love AI, but I don’t really want it baked into my OS. At least not on my development machine. On my iPhone it makes much more sense.

10:15pm in the North of England 🌞

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