matt boldt

ruby, javascript, beats, & synth patches. generally anxious. he/him/y'all.

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

(Using my highly developed powers of pattern recognition) I have made the same mistake again

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@JasonSwett Oh and nested associations that can unexpectedly trigger creation of more records with the default build strategy, leading to invalid factories or hard to diagnose side effects.

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@JasonSwett Choosing build/build_stubbed/create, handling deeply nested associations, reusable but flexible traits & sub-factories, keeping factories valid at model level, performance monitoring, global persisted state, testing things like rake tasks where you can’t pass a factory as a dep.

[matt boldt @atmattb]

one time in work slack someone replied to a thread saying “I watched a documentary about this recently!” and someone asked “was it last night’s @iamjohnoliver episode?” to which they enthusiastically replied “yeah!” and I think about this a lot.

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@JeromeHardaway https://t.co/GkPSbwKEd9 a bit different but these tacos are delicious

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@tenderlove fyi @getbentsaggy is responsible for my beautiful laptop sticker

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in case you’re wondering what living in texas is like

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@JasonSwett mom’s gonna fix it all soon

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@nateberkopec would also be a good alternative to validation contexts, as well as provide a smaller blast radius for callbacks at the repo level

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obvs coming from ruby there's gonna be a ton of differences, but like, needing to dig thru stackoverflow threads to figure out the "right" way to create a string seems wrong

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attempting to learn rust. there appear to be 4 different ways to create an owned string -- it's up to your preference 🤔

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@mike_mayo they told me to reboot and it worked

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excited to announce that today was the first time I took a photo of my computer screen and sent it to IT

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@gordysc ruby-focused is great. I'd just like a holistic view of application development (with ruby/rails as the vehicle) without being *too* tied down to a specific framework's features. If that makes sense.

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@JasonSwett I feel like abstractions are correlated with, but not exactly caused by, de-duplication.

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@thedayisntgray Agreed. I suspect the name fit better when they started as a non-profit.

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OR of course you could be solving frustrating problems to make up for a flawed environment or process.

I feel like there's a fine line between these two, tho.

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starting to realize that the some of the more frustrating and arduous problems you solve become the most valued and appreciated

in other words, if you're feeling annoyed, you may be doing the work you're uniquely capable of doing for others

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@hopsoft that's how we'll know if we're talking to a human or a bot on the internet: humans on the internet never admit this