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I have been using WordPress for many years but I never loved it. Actually, I never liked it.

It has been interesting to follow the story of Twitter going from public company to being purchased by Elon Musk for more money than I could ever imagine. Since that time it seems like you either love or hate Musk as the owner of a private Twitter. He’s a way...

I realized that I have neglected my blog for a very long time. I wanted to write up something so that any readers I had left didn’t think I had simply stopped existing.

I added Hotwire to a Ruby on Rails application I’ve been working on and discovered some issues when rendering flash messages. Yesterday I wrote about problems related to CORS error using OmniAuth. Today’s is not as exciting but still as annoying.

I’ve been working on a small side project lately and having some fun trying some new Ruby on Rails features. The application allows a user to authenticate using their Twitter account. I’m using the omniauth-twitter gem to implement the Twitter strategy with OmniAuth. It works great; the user is redirected...

I’ve been using with rbenv to manage installation and switching of Ruby versions for the pass year and have been very happy with it. I recently took the plunge and upgraded my main Apple MacBook Pro from macOS Catalina to Big Sur. Everything seemed to work well after the upgrade....

Recently, I was working on a side project and deployed an update on my favorite deployment platform, Hatchbox.

I love finding great tools that solve problems I face everyday. I came across the DevUtils.app recently which is a toolbox with lots of tools to make our day better.

I’m sure if you are a Ruby on Rails developer, you have heard about the fiasco that is Mimemagic. It seems a component used in the Mimemagic gem was under a GPL license which was different than Mimemagic but because of how these licenses work, trickles down to users of...