When a user on macOS 10.12 couldn't access the showcase application due to browser compatibility issues, we discovered that our minimum browser requirements were too aggressive. Here's how we added conditional polyfill support to make the app work on older browsers without sacrificing performance for modern ones.
ActiveRecord::Tenanted is a promising multi-tenancy solution for Rails, but its eager synchronous migration approach won't scale to geographically distributed deployments with Kamal Geo Proxy.
This post advocates for adding geo-aware lazy migrations to ActiveRecord::Tenanted, based on patterns battle-tested in Showcase across 70+ sites in 8 countries over 3+ years.
Five years ago, I migrated this blog to Eleventy v0.12.1. This week, Claude Code upgraded it to v3.1.2, handled configuration changes, made the site environment-aware, and completed the search functionality I'd started but never finished. Eleventy still embodies the "it's just data" philosophy that attracted me in the first place.
I don't have a firm date yet, but expect to ship a beta in January.
The book will show you how you can largely stay with Rails defaults and can build an application that is roughly 50% HTML, 40% Ruby, 5% CSS, and 5% JS. The resulting application will have the look and feel of a single page web application complete with asynchronous updates.
After nearly 20 years away, I found it was surprisingly easy to set up a full development environment on a modern Windows 10 machine. Given a decent browser, terminal, shell, and IDE, the underlying desktop environment turns out not to be much of an impediment.
After nearly 20 years away, I found it was surprisingly easy to set up a full development environment on a modern Windows 10 machine. Given a decent browser, terminal, shell, and IDE, the underlying desktop environment turns out not to be much of an impediment.
Unless I'm missing something, I don't see React often used as middleware. There is a subtle, but important, difference between using React as templates and as middleware.
Chromebook's support Linux now. There are instructions on the web that are incomplete and out of date to switch to Ubuntu. This post pulls much of that information together.