Ben Pickles

Listener of Zappa • writer of Ruby and JavaScript • creator of • leader of thought • @[email protected]

[Ben Pickles @benpickles]

For the last few years my website has been a Rails app running on Netlify using a library I wrote to turn any Rack app into a static build. It's now super simple to turn a Sinatra app into a static site that's deployed to GitHub Pages on every push https://t.co/WrmS1HMHH1 #ruby

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@dpaola2 @RubyCademy using a normal `if` would change the Gemfile.lock depending on the output of the `if` whereas with this approach it'll always be included in the lockfile. thank you for the tip @RubyCademy 🙏🏻

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It is the highest honour to headline Ruby Weekly https://t.co/BOGLKbhdsR 💖 @cooperx86

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@maxthelion old! 🎂

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Announcing Operatic, a minimal standard interface to encapsulate your Ruby operations (often referred to as “service objects”) https://t.co/wvJEGpvk9o

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@zimbatm I’ve been using 1Password‘s SSH agent for some weeks now https://t.co/sZ2iLaISHS

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@alinajaf I remember you *banging on* about this some ten years ago, so I practiced touch typing - irregularly and only a little bit - and it delivered me a small but noticeable improvement to using a keyboard every day since 🙏🏻

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@sineraves https://t.co/cRVF6e5PpI

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We are so very old

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@cloud8421 😘

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I’ve resurrected Screamshot, a synchronous HTTP screenshot service I first released in 2016(!), and added a few new features - my favourite is support for `prefers-reduced-motion=reduce` https://t.co/77oTiziDl6

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@simonw I’m using it on this page https://t.co/C352uBzyKu to skip animating the chart so that I can more easily capture a screenshot for use in the open graph image tag

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@simonw I’m using headless Chrome in an HTTP screenshot service, my favourite feature is being able to force `prefers-reduced-motion=reduce` mode which can be used as a standards-based hint to prevent animations (useful when taking a screenshot) https://t.co/BHqNcmFgTD

[Ben Pickles @benpickles]

I’ve resurrected Screamshot, a synchronous HTTP screenshot service I first released in 2016(!), and added a few new features - my favourite is support for `prefers-reduced-motion=reduce` https://t.co/77oTiziDl6

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@simonw hmmm, no... most of the material I can find on the feature seems to be suggesting how it _could_ be used https://t.co/YkIhf63fzB

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@ibuckley Draught beer at 10:52! Yes please 👏🏻

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@b_antunes Choon!

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@b_antunes I only hear good things about https://t.co/vPH7ZWtMX5 but I know nothing of these things so it might not be what you need

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@alinajaf Bless you

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@zimbatm This is a great idea, I will try to pop by some time 👍🏻☕️