Weeknotes 95

The task I was stressing about is now done and dusted so I can put that behind me, and I worked four days this week 👌

Reddit are going to start charging for their API. The beginning of the end? What will I do with all my time? The author of Apollo seems cautiously optimistic that this change might be a good thing 🤞

Why I Stopped Using Sorbet in All My Ruby Projects – An interesting take on using Sorbet.

Mullvad were visited by the Swedish Police.

Mullvad have been operating our VPN service for over 14 years. This is the first time our offices have been visited with a search warrant.

Do you remember how lodash made JavaScript bearable back in the day? You might be interested in Vanilla JavaScript replacements.

(Via Phuoc Nguyen).

My Gandi to Porkbun migration is complete. I transferred 4 domains this week and it was a straight forward process. I slightly concerned as I haven’t transferred a domain for years, but the instructions on Porkbun’s website were helpful.

I had a small support query and it took literally 2 minutes to get a response via online chat. Extremely impressive.

This blog post from GitHub – Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails – shows how they keep on top of Rails and Ruby upgrades. Chipping away, rather than big bang upgrades is the way.

Every Monday a scheduled GitHub Action workflow triggers an automated pull request, which bumps our Rails version to the latest commit on the Rails main branch for that day.

After nearly 10 years of Vim usage I’ve only recently started using tabs and I’m still not sure I’m doing it right since reading Vim Tab Madness. Buffers vs Tabs.

Jemma Issroff’s blog post – IRB’s Built-in Measure – shows off the profiling capabilities now built-in to Ruby 3. A really nice feature. Be sure to check out part 2 as well where she shows how to add a custom measurement for Speedscope.

Thoughtbot’s Hotwire Example Template repo looks like a great resource for figuring out how to use Hotwire. Loads of easy to follow examples. One to bookmark for later.

Can Phoenix Safely Use the Zip Module?

This post explores the OTP :zip module and tests it against two different types of zip attacks so we can learn how to safely use zip in our Elixir applications.

Conclusion: Be careful.

As someone who once really enjoyed cycling, and is thinking of getting back into it, I was intrigued by I don’t usually wear a bike helmet. Does that make me an idiot?. I thought it reached a pragmatic conclusion.