My Ruby on Rails app Monolithium uses Solid Queue for background jobs but also has some recurring jobs. When I migrated to Solid Queue I typoed the schedule strings for these recurring jobs and then h...

I ended up taking Monday off this week because I hurt my back and needed to work on making it feel better. What I would like to tell you is that I hurt it because I was doing something awesome. Sky-di...

My Ruby on Rails application Monolithium stores times in UTC and thus far I've been content to show them without considering timezone. As an example, the Boops Page will show the created_at timestamp ...

This was a short week for me with Monday being a holiday. Not much to report other than I did my best swim this week - 850 meters!

Ruby 4.0 was released a couple months ago on Christmas and I had been meaning to upgrade for a while. I noticed that version 4.0.1 came out too so that's always a good sign that things are stable and ...

A couple months back, just before the Christmas holiday break, I received a TIME smart clock as a gift from Shopify. They gave everybody the choice between a few different items from merchants on the ...

There were parent/teacher conferences this week so the boy was off school Thursday and Friday. He's 10 so not too bad but I just found it hard to focus. We went to the gym on Friday and hit the pool w...

This was a weird week on many levels. Monday was a holiday but then people were talking about a general strike for Friday. No work, no school, no shopping. I wasn't sure what I would do but then at th...

This was another hard week to be living in Minnesota. Don't listen to what the White House is telling you - this ICE activity has nothing to do with fraud and everything to do with terrorizing a commu...

Over on Evaluating Apache Access Log Data I dove deep on the data available to me from my many years of hoarding Apache access log data. By working with the logs in this way I learned what data points...

My Ruby projects use the default Rake task to run linting and the test suite plus anything else that might gate the merging of a PR. These days that is Standard Ruby and good old RSpec but I sometimes...

The first week back to work after a couple weeks off is brutal. Everyone in my house was tired and crabby. Luckily I found the time for a few naps - that really helped. And really by the end of the we...

This week was the second of my 2 weeks off for the holidays. I can't believe how fast it went and how few things I actually crossed off my list of things to do! Not that I didn't accomplish a lot - it...

I have a section of my Rails app that is an admin interface to perform CRUD actions on various models. They are fairly standard pages and honestly don't get a ton of use. Recently I was poking around ...

I didn't have a ton of time to work on personal projects this week but I did dive back into my Rails app and analytics reporting. I reviewed the work I had done like a month ago and then started over....

It's been a while since my last review post just because life has been so busy. There was a work trip in there to Toronto plus then a trip to Arizona for the Thanksgiving holiday. Getting caught up wi...

While working on migrating this website back to Jekyll, I noticed a few opportunities to improve how I handled images. Instead of adding to that already huge migration task, I just let it go. Out of s...

If this site has any type of design philosophy it is probably something like this:

This was a short week with Tuesday being a holiday and I took Thursday off because I wasn't feeling well. I have a bunch of notes and 2 blog post drafts but was not able to finalize them.

This week we changed our clocks and gained an hour. Somehow I was still pretty messed up from it. Waking up at 5:30 in the morning some days - brutal. Only hit the pool for a swim one day but better t...

It was a big relief to wrap up exploring the mountain of Apache Access Log data I had accumulated over the years. The amount of junk traffic that my server processes was pretty surprising. Also surpri...

A practice I picked up from my days at Hashrocket is to add a style guide section to website projects. I've been using this on my personal projects and wanted to write up why I spend the time and how ...

Over on my Capturing and Storing Apache Access Log Data post I dove into the configuration I'm using on a Digital Ocean machine that serves my static websites. I set that up years ago and now I want t...

This week I spent more time on the topic of Apache access log data. I have a machine with Digital Ocean that serves my static websites and I wrote up my configuration (see below) so I can reproduce it...

My static sites are served by a Digital Ocean server that uses good old fashioned Apache to serve the content. I have configured that server to capture access log data and the store it on S3.

The main headline of this week is that I finished migrating the blog back to Jekyll and wrote up some notes (see below) on my approach. With that done I'm trying to get back to actually writing posts ...

This week I finished a migration of the blog back to Jekyll and wanted to write up a few things about that process and the motivation.

This is the PR that migrates the website back to Jekyll. I've given up on Middleman because does not have the community support that you see with Jekyll. In this state I can build and deploy th...

Summer reports from Jon, Pavlos, and Steve! What'd they do this summer?

What started as a personal quest to find a better open source AI chat interface after losing all my data became an unexpected journey into an AI subject matter expert Shopify. From evaluating tons of ...

Today is my last day as a Developer Experience Engineer at Camunda! Here's a retrospective of what I've learned.

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