Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll
I have been using WordPress for many years but I never loved it. Actually, I never liked it.
Social Media Times Are Changing
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...
It has certainly been a long time...
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.
How to Fix Rails Flash Rendering When Using Hotwire
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.
Hotwire Fix for CORS Error when using Omniauth
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...
Fix Installation of Ruby using rbenv on macOS Big Sur
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....
Fixing Out of Diskspace Errors on Amazon EC2
Recently, I was working on a side project and deployed an update on my favorite deployment platform, Hatchbox.
Discover DevUtils.app - Toolbox for Developers
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.
Overcoming the Mimemagic Fiasco
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...