Weeknotes 23

The current app I’m working on involves various audio processing. Unfortunately, I’ve not had much involvement with that side of things so far - too many others features to build and bugs to fix! I do find it really interesting though so I’m starting to pick up some things.

I performed several git rebase --onto operations on the first try. A cause for celebration as I usually get into an unholy mess.

Some spelunking into the Active Admin source code necessitated the use of Ruby’s #source_location this week. When combined with #method it is extremely useful to help find where code is defined.

I started listening to Things Fell Apart by Jon Ronson. It’s really good.

I was doing a lot of debugging this week that necessitated restarting the Rails server over and over. This project uses puma-dev which means running touch tmp/restart.txt to tell it to restart. This soon got tedious so I went Googling for a way to do this inside of vim.

I came across this article from 2012 which had the solution. Some slight tweaking and a new key bind in my config and I was away. I can now press <leader> rr to restart Rails from within Vim.

Nick Cave being great, again.

We all have regrets and, as bad as they may feel, they are signals of our growth as human beings. A person with no regrets is simply leading an unexamined life.

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/i-just-cant-forgive-myself/