Kerrick Long (elsewhere at kerricklong.com/social)

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[Kerrick Long (elsewhere at kerricklong.com/social) @KerrickLong]

@dhh Can SaaS vendors that DON'T compete with the original Licensor use pieces of the code in a hosted, managed, or SaaS product where the primary value of the service is the functionality of the Software itself?

e.g. using a Fizzy UI component in a tractor-tracking SaaS for farmers?

[Kerrick Long (elsewhere at kerricklong.com/social) @KerrickLong]

@dhh @0xCAFAD I love spaces — but only hair spaces — around em dashes!

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@jasonfried Repo link for Writebook? I can only find Campfire.

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@dhh For example, I could see using the Knob (it goes to 11!) in such a SaaS product, were it allowed. 😁

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@dhh I'm confused about one thing. Could I use Fizzy's code in a "Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product or cloud service where the primary value of the service is the functionality of the Software itself" that does NOT compete with 37Signals? Like a tractor-tracking SaaS for farmers?

[Kerrick Long (elsewhere at kerricklong.com/social) @KerrickLong]

@ShopifySupport Please tell your Help Center Assistant UI team that using the CSS rule `text-wrap: pretty` on text that changes can be disorienting and even sickening. `pretty` and `balance` should only be used on static text, not text that streams in one character at a time.

[Kerrick Long (elsewhere at kerricklong.com/social) @KerrickLong]

@lybrary Is there a performance video? It's hard to tell what exactly I'd be buying.

[Joe Ingeno @JoeIngeno]

Ship Software That Does Nothing https://t.co/P1mXBGqwui

[Kerrick Long (elsewhere at kerricklong.com/social) @KerrickLong]

.@Steve_Yegge laid out a vision: in 2 years, nobody will write code. The solution? Kerrick’s Wager: a plan of action for senior developers in an agentic AI world.

https://t.co/crpzwYvBym

#AI #VibeCoding #AIAgents #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #Careers

[David Fowler @davidfowl]

"Why I’m Learning C# and .NET After Two Decades of Programming"

https://t.co/itVyZZA0yc

#dotnet #csharp

[Kerrick Long (elsewhere at kerricklong.com/social) @KerrickLong]

@davidfowl Thanks for sharing! If you have any great books about the stack that you recommend, I’d greatly appreciate your advice.

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@mgechev @JordanHall_dev It is the one-year anniversary of this tweet -- is there a blog post about this yet?

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@robisenberg @piergeli Would you be open to another person taking on the new edition, as Noel Rappin did with Programming Ruby 3.3?

[Kerrick Long (elsewhere at kerricklong.com/social) @KerrickLong]

@ManningBooks Can you please add High Contrast mode to the LiveBook reader? I'd like it to have a pure white background, and a pure black background. It would make it easier to read on low-contrast displays, especially e-ink displays. My subscription would be much more valuable.

[Kerrick Long (elsewhere at kerricklong.com/social) @KerrickLong]

@ismasan @MorriceGavin ActiveModel is explicitly part of the Rails framework. It fits into the Tao.

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@rickasaurus Out of curiosity, why did you stop using it?

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@obie @dhh Very exciting! Any way I can order a print version when it releases?

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@jeremyblalock We worked together at Second Street and were about to leave to found a no-code app company together (HeroSpark). Legal concerns & conversations with Second Street’s owners came up (re: loosely-worded IP assignment clauses). I ended up not wanting to on so much risk.

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@RyanCarniato I think @dhh basically did years ago. "If rails and ruby is a perfect fit for the 99.9%, hey, that's fantastic! I could not get a better endorsement than saying 'Oh, your framework is not the right thing for the 0.1% of us.' Uh, Okay!" (from followup: https://t.co/zU06UhV5ca)