Mastodon looks more and more like it has come out on top in our post-twitter. I’m there for it and hopeful for years to come.

EveryPost’s backend uses a Go API along with a Rails application. This post talks about how to decrypt and read Rails credentials from Go in order to simplify shared configuration.

A fun diversion I started the past weekend was prompted by missing one of my favorite note-taking tools and asking the question, “What would it take to recreate the experience of Notational Velocity on the command line in Go?

I miss one of my favorite note-taking tools. Before I talk about recreating the experience on the command line, some thoughts on note-taking tools overall.

Building on lograge, let’s walk through how to generate structured logs for your other logging needs. I walk through the configuration and code to bridge the gap between your request logs and application logs.

This is a demo of ordering search results in ActiveRecord using the ActsAsTaggable gem combined with a ‘fuzzy’ search via Postgres' built-in trigram support.

Brief walkthrough of implementing “demo mode” in Mezzi, and how it limits access to ActionCable for anonymous users.

As users, we are left to contend with the choice of withdrawal or acceptance.

Pre-mortems can be helpful but often lack structure. Polling your team to find out what could go wrong can backfire.

The two most important factors in breaking down an opportunity are controlling for variables and controlling for time.