Weeknotes 85

Consider writing your feature request as a poem.

Not a lot of work on receiptgo, shock. I have a list of features I want to build, but not a great deal of motivation. Saying that, I might have figured out how to move it forward, and I did do a bit of code reorganisation.

EvilSeed looks potentially useful.

A Gem for creating partial anonymized dumps of your database using your app model relations.

I finally setup a Mastodon alias using webfinger. This has been a barrier to using Mastodon as I don’t want to be tied to a single instance. But an alias allows more flexibility.

There are many blog posts giving advice on how to implement webfinger, but eventually followed this guide for the simplicity of the solution.

elver.me is hosted on GitHub Pages, so I just needed to add a JSON file with the correct contents in .well-known/webfinger/index.json and that should be enough.

  {
      "subject":"acct:jordelver@hachyderm.io",
      "aliases":
      [
          "https://hachyderm.io/@jordelver",
          "https://hachyderm.io/users/jordelver",
          "jordelver@hachyderm.io"
      ],
      "links":
      [
          {
              "rel":"http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page",
              "type":"text/html",
              "href":"https://hachyderm.io/@jordelver"
          },
          {
              "rel":"self",
              "type":"application/activity+json",
              "href":"https://hachyderm.io/users/jordelver"
          },
          {
              "rel":"http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe",
              "template":"https://hachyderm.io/authorize_interaction?uri={uri}"
          }
      ]
  }

How do you feel about your standard library shelling out to Perl?

c is nice because there’s no hidden costs, you see every malloc and free, and know that the standard library doesn’t do shenanigans behind your back

char *cmd = "/usr/bin/perl -e 'print join(chr(0), @ARGV), chr(0)' -- ";

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1622307745138446337

I decided to sign up for RailsDevs account. I have no idea on whether it will be effective. We’ll see. I noticed that there was nowhere to enter my Mastodon handle, so I submitted a PR.

Explain your queries with Rails 7.1.

Frontend drama, Alex Russell’s The Market for Lemons, a scathing evaluation of frontend frameworks (ahem, React), and Seldo’s rebuttal, The case for frameworks.