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Written by Simon George on 2024-09-11 at 23:10

Thought my sewing machine box looked like an old computer terminal so I used my craft cutter to turn it into one!

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Written by Simon George on 2024-08-15 at 11:04

This means any link in an email with 2+ query params is broken; reset password*, magic links, expiring S3 links, utm tracking, etc.

If you have a Rails app with mailers that has rebooted/redeployed since Monday, please check email links (not in Letter Opener or Mailer Previews but real email). All templates are affected; erb, haml, mjml

Broken or not let me know!

(*Devise reset password only has 1 param so isn't affected, else there would be a flood of reports)

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Written by Simon George on 2024-08-15 at 09:39

Can I nerdsnipe anyone into a Rails ghost hunt?

On Monday our app started sending emails containing broken links. We didn't update OS or gems. I've even reproduced in a new blank Rails app. None of us can figure out what changed... 👻 https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/52602

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Written by Simon George on 2024-08-09 at 11:17

Just came across CUE config / data validation language. I love its "types are values” concept.

Having not thought it through at all, I think a programming language that worked this way would be really cool - would simplify type definition syntax.

https://cuelang.org/docs/introduction/#types-are-values

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Written by Simon George on 2024-08-08 at 10:14

I’m nostalgic for 90s PC game marble texture

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Written by Simon George on 2024-08-07 at 13:16

@ivory I would love proper mastodon account filters rather than app level filters. Or at least a link to open server settings in a modal

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Written by Simon George on 2024-08-07 at 12:02

@MonaApp any chance of integrating Mastodon filters like Ice Cubes does? Not a fan of app specific mutes

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Written by Simon George on 2024-07-02 at 11:44

Any good tools that are an alternative to git rebase - either CLI or GUI?

Rebase is good for squashing, removing, and rewording commits. It’s okay at re-ordering commits, but often that causes conflicts when I think it shouldn’t.

What I really struggle with is:

• moving individual files from one commit to another
• moving hunks of files from one commit to another
• splitting commits into multiple commits each with different tanks and files

I know you can edit or break but it’s too fiddly.

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Written by Simon George on 2024-06-29 at 09:47

Is there something like Pi-hole that can modify the contents of pages? Or how would one build that, VPN? Something something Nginx? Is SSL termination tricky?

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Written by Simon George on 2024-06-28 at 22:30

I vaguely remembered this was a thing. You can define Ruby methods inside each other, but they seem to end up in the same scope so I don’t think there’s anything fun you can do with it @DRBragg @Dan2552

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Written by Simon George on 2024-06-28 at 06:39

On my yearly early morning train pilgrimage to @brightonruby #BrightonRuby ❤️💎

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Written by Simon George on 2024-06-19 at 12:25

I think I have a minor lost media thing. In the early 2000s I remember having a PC demo disc of SSX Tricky.

The full game isn't lost; it’s widely known on Xbox, PS2, and GameCube. But it was never released on PC and I can find no mention of a PC demo anywhere.

As the original Xbox was kinda just a Pentium III PC running Windows NT I assume PC ports were easy and vice versa. But why release a demo on a platform where you can’t buy the game?

I have to find the disk next time I'm back home.

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Written by Simon George on 2024-05-24 at 10:55

USB soldering irons are so cursed. USB-C one end, TRS jack the other. Let me just plug these 350ºc headphones into my iPhone why not! (I think they're neat, just cursed) https://www.crowdsupply.com/sitron-labs/solder-ninja-pen

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Written by Simon George on 2024-05-17 at 15:08

I did find one way using RubyVM but it doesn't work in ruby.wasm so I can't use it:

RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree.of(prk).children.first.zip(prk.call).to_h
[#] => { :a => 1, :b => 2 }

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Written by Simon George on 2024-05-17 at 15:07

Ruby challenge! Can anyone find a way to get the names of the local variables defined within an arbitrary lambda without changing the lambda? Example lambda:

prk = ->{a=1, b=2}
[#] …
some_magic(prk) #=> [:a, :b]

My first thought was prk.binding.local_variables but Proc#binding returns the binding of the caller not the inner binding. And it's an arbitrary lambda so no variable shadowing ;-)

It's for a silly personal project not prod so I'm happy with weird metaprogramming!

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Written by Simon George on 2024-05-15 at 20:54

def excellent(duper)
  super duper
end

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Written by Simon George on 2024-04-15 at 16:00

I quite like this code.

It seems I wrote it myself,

Unexpected win.

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Written by Simon George on 2024-04-15 at 09:52

I don't mind analytics cookies in theory. I want them to make their service better. They need to know how it's used to do so. Except then they get greedy and use the same cookie for ads, so of course I opt out and nobody wins. This is GitHub fyi, accessed by clicking the footer link "Do not share my personal information” 🤔

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Written by Simon George on 2024-04-07 at 23:19

SolveSpace's garish pixelated UI looks off-putting at first like it was built in the 80s and surely won't make any sense. But that's not true!

I quickly realised its tool palette works like Photoshop, it has intuitive mouse viewport controls, and well labelled icons & menus. Honestly it just works. And it's fast.

I started with the tutorial but found myself quickly able to skip ahead, it's really that intuitive.

Open source, 2D, 3D, comprehensive export. I love it. https://solvespace.com/bracket.pl

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Written by Simon George on 2024-04-07 at 23:13

I needed to 3D model a timing belt profile and slightly tweak it for 3D printing. But the technical drawing is deceivingly complex.

I normally use OpenSCAD which is parametric (you specify shapes & dimensions), but that won't work here. See all the arcs relative to other arcs relative to points… it needs a constraint solver.

FreeCAD can probably do it but the UX Is inscrutable to me.

So I tried SolveSpace; another open source constrain modeller. And it was a breeze! https://solvespace.com/

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