Claude is really good at quickly creating "seeds" in monoliths to populate your app with data in development. You should understand this functionality and check it but it is a nice little productivity boost.

Three things helped me most as a developer: 1. Pen and paper when thinking through problems first. You are a problem solver. 2. Learned Ruby deeply. It made understanding how Rails worked from the inside. 3. Learned JavaScript deeply. It made using frameworks a secondary

I am going to build a forum this weekend. It is going to be for code. No images, just old school forum, text only. It is Friday night, this will launch on Sunday. Ruby on Rails

I did a little video review of DHH's Omakub last month. I have been using Linux for years and have my own way of doing things but nevertheless wanted to give it a run over the last month. The result... I am going to stick with it and use it going forward. Here is why: 1. Your

Want to make X instantly better? Block every account with violence on your feed. It will immediately become a calmer place. Elon Musk can you create a “violence free” mode that just mutes/blocks all accounts with graphic/violent content? Better yet, make it the default and let

My new forum in Rails is on track for release tomorrow. Adding authorization with Pundit right now. Next user verification with email. It will be bare bones to start but I am liking how it is shaking out.

Pundit in place for the forum. Tomorrow is user verification via email and then it will soft launch.

I don't know why I haven't used the GitHub cli more in the past. It is delightful and MUCH quicker to act upon in place of the GUI.

Candor Forum: github.com/etmartinkazoo/… I want to continue iterating on this as it is so bare bones. There is the beginning of something I really like here. What is unique about this forum? No images which makes moderation orders of magnitude easier and focuses this more on

Has anyone prototyped an MVP with Filament 🦒 and then migrated it to Vanilla Laravel? It looks like a fantastic tool to build quickly, prove a concept, etc... Wondering what the pain is of moving that to a custom dashboard in the future. Thanks!

Who wants to build a new PHP CMS with me…

I am a Ruby on Rails admirer. We run our company's business on a Rails application via Kamal, Solid Queue, Hotwire, etc... It is a project management tool that quite literally allows us to operate. It is fully no build with Propshaft and Importmaps. All that said, I also see the value

I am a big no build fan but I was using Inertia.js with React and it is amazing how NICE React is when you are just letting it handle the user interface client side. It makes me wonder if millions of people wrongly hate what they think React is. Keep it simple.

I am having a technical crisis. Laravel and Inertia.js are making me ENJOY writing React...

It is great to see nations standing side by side in our common endeavor of the stars. I hope for peace and perhaps space can give us all perspective.