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Threads: ActivityPub or Bust

Threads has the potential to reshape the social media landscape but without ActivityPub it will never extend beyond the reach of Twitter. The alternative is more interesting.

Posted by ivan on Fri, Jul 7, 2023

Our Mastodon Future

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.

Posted by ivan on Thu, Feb 2, 2023

Decrypting Rails Credentials with Go

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 …

Posted by ivan on Sat, Jan 28, 2023

New Note-Taking Tool

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 …

Posted by ivan on Mon, Jan 23, 2023

On the Importance of Taking Short Notes

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.

Posted by ivan on Sun, Jan 22, 2023

How to Build Structured Logging in Rails

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 …

Posted by ivan on Sat, Jan 21, 2023

Custom Ordering of Tag Search Results using Trigrams, ActiveRecord and Postgresql

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.

Posted by ivan on Mon, Dec 5, 2022

Implementing an Interactive Demo

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

Posted by ivan on Wed, Nov 30, 2022

The Weight of Twitter

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

Posted by ivan on Fri, Nov 11, 2022

How Will This Not Become a Total Disaster?

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

Posted by ivan on Fri, Sep 30, 2022