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There’s also a typography element to formatting source code. The notion that all code formatting is mere personal preference isn’t true. Formatting code a certain way can help to c…

Thanks for the kind words!

(author here) It only uses Sinatra because I happened to know it and needed to bootstrap the low-level stuff. I don't know if it needs to be based on Sinatra in the long term - it …

I'm OK not using a compiler. Used one for years and am good on that for now. I like writing Ruby.

I like Ruby! Ruby has types. They just aren't enforced by a compiler.

Yeah, that makes sense. Where I end up wanting mocks is when this happens: 1 - build first version of feature, all core logic in a class I can test conventionally 2 - logic gets co…

I didn't come up with the license. You can read about it here: https://firstdonoharm.dev/ I didn't want the code to be All Rights Reserved, so I chose the best license I could find…

The biggest thing is the mocking system. MiniTest's feels so difficult to use. I also like creating custom matchers vs. creating my own assert_* methods. I would agree that many fe…

I thought hard about this decision. Every time I use MiniTest, I end up wanting a bit more that RSpec has and then switching to it. I also have been surprised over the years that t…

Author here. The framework does require setting stuff up. RSpec is not one of those things. It's the testing library you will use if you use this framework. I didn't create a lot o…

Author here - the example doesn't allow logins now to avoid abuse. I wasn't 100% sure I'd make it public and just decided today to do it, so it's not yet ready for just anyone to l…

This is my favorite game for the 2600. I built a clone of it for Windows using Direct X in probably 1999/2000. I don't have a Windows machine, but I think Microsoft's obsession wit…

Where you live matters. In the US there is a significant tax burden on exercising. Talk to an accountant. Also look into QSBS which can shield your tax burden if the company was sm…

It wants to act on GitHub on my behalf. Not clear why I should allow it to do that, especially when the only info about this app that is presented is that it will store my data on …

I built a toy app using this, with a front-end only app and postgrest + RBS. The app was seriously two forms behind a login. It was a huge pain. RBS is "insecure by default" meanin…

I built one recently. Much simpler and more opinionated, but can generate a Tailwind configuration: https://ghola.dev (desktop/ipad is best) Long read on how it was built with web …

I loved U1-4 on the C64. If you like this sort of thing I created an ultima-inspired in browser game https://starlightdawn.online It’s an interactive story and not a CRPG but there…

Web Components are not a replacement for React. They are a thing you would use to build React if you were to do so today. To use only Web Components, you will be writing a lot of l…

To save anyone a click, the author figured that AirBnB's urls had monotonically increasing numeric ids, which is the Rails default, and figured out that the AirBnB CEO's id was 3, …

Based on how it is implemented, it probably should've been called `trace` because it is one level below debug.

I dunno, the OP may want to work with a processor that provides transparent and clear customer service.

Their engineers need promotions so how else can they get them?

The typography is almost great but it full justifies all text (at least on mobile) which looks horrible. Web browsers have limited hyphenation and don’t do any kerning or other adj…