Maintaining custom software
Jeena writes about the challenge to maintain a custom blog software.
I've neglected my rails application which runs my own website for many many years, mostly because it's a lot of work to keep upgrading rails especially when it comes to major version changes. Dependencies break and disapear, API's break, you need to rewrite a lot of code because new concepts and data structures gets introduced, etc. Anyway now I need to upgrade from rails 4.2 which was released 8 years ago to 7.0 which was released last year.
I still like to have written my own website because this way I can have exactly the functionality which I want, not someone else. But it's a lot of work.
I feel the challenge. I started rewriting this very site in Rails, to be able to include Webmentions and support other IndieWeb features. But sadly, I didn’t find enough time
recently to work on the project.
So cheers to Jeena and hopefully, he’ll be able to upgrade to Rails 7.
Once I’ve finished some more client projects, maybe I’ll be able to take the time to work on this site more.
Was möchte mir der Autor damit sagen? Ich verstehe es wirklich nicht.
Christian Heilmann @codepo8 giving a talk in front of 🚢 in Hamburg at web-developer-conference 🥳
Ich lasse seit drei Tagen einen Snowflake Proxy in Docker auf meinem Rechner laufen. Bisher bewirkt es nix Schlechtes für mich und hoffentlich etwas Hilfe da wo sie gebraucht wird.
Nachher gibt es endlich mal wieder Baked Oats zum Mittag. 😋😋😋
Den Morgen mit Radeln in der Garage beginnen. Eine Stunde Grundlage 😍😅
I left my iPhone out in the sun yesterday. Once I realised and took it away, it said that it overheated and needed to cool down before I could continue to use it. I submerged it into the pool, to cool it. It’s supposed to be waterproof after all. 1/x
This morning I was able to gather quite a few strawberries 🍓 from our garden. 😍
Really made my day. What a wonderful comment.
It was supposed to be plural. Rails apps. 😉
I am migrating my Rails app from Azure App Services to fly.io It isn’t perfect, yet. But it is already soo much better than hosting on Azure as Rails apps are first-class apps and not something nobody wants to have around.
Just discovered a bug in the newest releaes of the Microblog for Mac app @manton (let’s see if attaching a .mov file works here…)
I just played WWDC Bingo and you can too! 😉 docs.google.com/spreadshe…
Sitting in bed not able to sleep. 😣
MacOs 12 makes it harder to know the selected keyboard layout
MacOS 12.4 changes the display of the selected keyboard layout. Before 12.4 it used to be a country’s flag. I could discern the selected layout from glancing to the menu bar and recognize the flag (US or Germany). That was quick and easy. Now they changed it to show two white-ish letters or black background.
I have to read the actual letters to know the layout. I don’t think this really helps anything. It only makes things look more similar, uniform and boring. Maybe there is a setting to revert that back to colorful country flags, but I am not hopeful. 😑
I am very impressed by the exhaustiveness and attention to detail put into the guide for Rails’ ActiveStorage feature: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html I pretty much answers every single thing you need to set this up for S3, GCS and Azure. 😳🤯
During the day I usually switch between 1-2 client projects. For that I need different tabs in Firefox. To make that switch very easy and quick I use the extension addons.mozilla.org/de/firefo… It saves all open tabs and works flawlessly.
And this is how it looks:
I just found the setting how to use TailwindCSS css classes autocompletion in html.erb files. Now I can type the beginning of the class name and TailwindCSS will show me matching autocompletion, even for my html.erb files. 🎉
I appreciate the Dracula theme (https://draculatheme.com/). But… is there something like a Whiteula theme? I am not so much into dark themes… Just asking 😉