Kester Dobson

Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Geospatial. Likes specialty coffee and cycling. Side project @serpboard

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@sewateruk Woke to delivered water outside all other houses on our road. Nothing for us - is there a second delivery planned? No water bags for anyone

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@sewateruk Should those of us who had water restored, and been using it, be concerned by "recurrence of the water quality issue that shutdown the system" from a health perspective?

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On the second pod @DCoulbourne said there was no meat to it (the pod, not the soup), but they were tops. Easier in the ears than a 2h refactoring podcast 😆

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The latest 2x No Plans to Merge by @calebporzio and @DCoulbourne perfectly capture some recent frustrations. Here are a few quotes (approx)

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4) Building small profitable businesses. Given this (https://t.co/G3EEKtqML3) by @dvassallo there's still a lot of VC money flying around and going to waste, but feels like there'll be even more opportunity to fill gaps left by collapsing startups in the near future

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@r00k @tuple_podcast @awesomekling This one's going to make us ALL feel unproductive!

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@bhumi1102 @books I *think* you can drop the `partial:` too, if you're following Rails naming conventions for your view files. You can override the relevant model's partial file with `to_partial_path` on the model (found that out the long way)

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Good to see @statusgator following industry best practice for status pages 😂

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@StefanManku My wife was reading an article on it last night as I handed her a fully processed biscuit. Unfortunately the alternatives seem to be "spend 5x more" or "make it yourself by sending 4x more"

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@_baretto @IndieHackers I feel like this needs printing out and sticking above the desk!

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@levelsio Not sure how your stuff is built (other than PHP and sqlite) but Hetzner recently launched GPU dedicated boxes (Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation) - don't know enough AI to say if that's a good chip!

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@bhumi1102 Start with a blank canvas/previous template with Tailwind only. Jekyll has built in support for syntax highlighting for a while (via Rouge)!

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@r00k Internal support channel where new messages created tickets (Jira, sorry). 🪲 emojii would categorise them as bug, 🗑️ would bin them and ♻️ would close them and tag them as user/process error. Made it easy to react and report on unproductive time spent due to process errors

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@hrrsnbbnt Use a parent class to inherit off and I've enjoyed using dry-initializer to reduce boilerplate. This is with version 2.82.0 so things have probably moved on.

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Nearly 8 hours unable to access Cloudflare Pages dashboard. Don't pay so can't complain too loudly...but...glad I'm not paying! Monitored via https://t.co/llAsuFPowY showing the pain.

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@nateberkopec Zwift Racing League calling!

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@bradgessler I think @_swanson has preached this too. I’ve had obscure errors from omni providers and just did it myself as well. Sure the edge cases aren’t covered but at least you can see the edge cases when they happen and improve