Brandon Keepers

Exploring the world, working on and Formerly @GitHub, @orderedlistinc, @collectiveidea

[Brandon Keepers @bkeepers]

dotenv 3.0 beta is out! Try it out and let me know if you run into any issues.

https://t.co/YnAaRV1NiM

[Brandon Keepers @bkeepers]

'Tis the season to hack on fun side projects instead of the thing I "should" be doing.

I finally open-sourced the app I've been using to read Hacker News in a feed reader. It makes it really quick and easy for me to stay up on latest tech news.

https://t.co/KhAFfpfsQ7

[Flipper Cloud @flipper_cloud]

It's Friday, so we deployed 3 new features. JK, we deployed these days ago behind a feature flag. All we did today was push a couple buttons to flip on Project Overview, Feature Creators & Owners, and Read-only API for everyone.

https://t.co/SfXy4UAmDD

[Brandon Keepers @bkeepers]

@martijnversluis @StekkerApp Awesome! Glad to hear. Let me know how you think we can make it better

[Brandon Keepers @bkeepers]

Time to put big boy pants on! https://t.co/lf0bibntut

[Flipper Cloud @flipper_cloud]

We just released Flipper 1.0! But this release is more than just a version number. Introducing free plans, sponsorships, and a new teammate.

https://t.co/WHFBSzWdZI

[Brandon Keepers @bkeepers]

@gr2m Thank you, sir!

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

According to rubygems, I have released 67 different gems. Those gems have been downloaded an astounding (to me) 624 million times.

But I've never released a 1.0. Until today! 🎉🥳🎊

Head over to https://t.co/2MwC46bz6k for the rest of the story (new teammate, sponsorships, generous free tier, etc.). Feels big!

If you use flipper or anything I've made in the past 20 years, I'd really appreciate you sharing this!

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

Feature flags are amazing. I've said it before. I'll say it again (on repeat). They give you control so you can increase confidence and reduce accidents.

One way is by using objects other than "users" for flipping features. Flipper actors can be anything, even jobs!

We recently migrated to https://t.co/OhPDfCbtYy (and Rails ActiveJob) from delayed job with the snippet in the screenshot of this tweet and few Flipper.enable calls.

Zero outages and sweat.

Full story here: https://t.co/vwKlmDEpuP

Have a crazier flipper actor story? I'd love to hear it.

[Flipper Cloud @flipper_cloud]

How we helped a customer migrate their Rails application
to a new ActiveJob backend -one job at a time-without
user-visible interruptions.

https://t.co/UzsfHElzpj

[Brandon Keepers @bkeepers]

@bluewaterboats Can I help you get the site back online?

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

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[Brandon Keepers @bkeepers]

@jeffrafter @defunkt @AtomEditor @nathansobo @probablycorey @KevinSawicki @jcsalterego I uninstalled Sublime Text and TextMate that day.

[Brandon Keepers @bkeepers]

@defunkt @besquared I’ve been listing to this album a lot lately and think of you every time.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

Anyone out there with mad thread skills would be welcome to rip apart the background thread polling @bkeepers and I wrote a few weeks ago.

https://t.co/PPratP0Mj8

It's been working fine locally and in production, but I love learning so don't hold back.

[Brandon Keepers @bkeepers]

@brondsem @Ross_Hunter That was just a few years ago…

I am back in the area for the summer. We should go to a show there again.

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

A night unlike any other in American history.

[Brandon Keepers @bkeepers]

@will_j I was on the team that shipped the first version of GitHub Actions, and this was the primary use case we used in all our examples. Ironically, I have yet to see anyone (myself included) using this workflow. I’d like to, but Heroku has just been too easy…until last week.

[Brandon Keepers @bkeepers]

@defeated @flipper_cloud @jnunemaker Working on it! @Jonmagic and @mattgraham, you’re on notice!

[Flipper Cloud @flipper_cloud]

Today was a big deal for us.

We officially welcomed @bkeepers as an owner. This is his beautiful face after signing the paperwork.

He's already been working on things like automatic setup, docs and feature flag organization.

Pumped about the year ahead!

[Brandon Keepers @bkeepers]

@jeffluszcz Is that unusual? We call that “spring” in the midwest.