Jakob Skjerning

Web application developer, consultancy owner, and dad joke appreciator. 🦋

[Jakob Skjerning @mentalizer]

We‘re open sourcing our Flowbite component library, a set of view components, we’re using in Front Lobby, Skrift, and...

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[Jakob Skjerning @mentalizer]

Ever needed to run some maintenance task in your production environment? For me this always triggers a bunch of quest...

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Every so often you have a small script that needs to be run on your staging or production server, but committing and ...

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[Jakob Skjerning @mentalizer]

#TIL #rails When using STI you probably want to explicitly load the full inheritance hierarchy...

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ActiveRecord has a `saved_changes` method that returns the attribute changes that were saved last #TIL #ruby #rails

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[Jakob Skjerning @mentalizer]

Rails has a method that returns a correctly formatted string for the name attribute on input elements. I've been doing this manually for years whenever I needed to manually build fields!

See https://t.co/h18g6wlItC

#TIL #ruby #rails

[Jakob Skjerning @mentalizer]

There have been many interpretations of the anatomy of Minecrafts probably most iconic mob, the Creeper. This is my interpretation rendered in LEGO. 1900 bricks, standing 42 cm tall, this harbinger of boom will sneak up on when you least expect it. #lego #afol #moc #minecraft

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@Supernorn Looks so good! Xbox and/or MacOS next? 🙏😁

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@Supernorn “Surely, no one is _ever_ going to click on that with this while this is happening” 😁

[Jakob Skjerning @mentalizer]

What is the best, preferably written, tutorial to get someone into building their first Rails app when they have programming experience but limited Ruby experience?

I’ve had good success with the one from Rails Girls, but I fear it might be getting dated.

[Jakob Skjerning @mentalizer]

@martinkroeger @signemolde Whoa, den tråd gik fra 0 til kukkuk på 2 sekunder 😳

[Jakob Skjerning @mentalizer]

Could/should an ESP check and verify DMARC before sending an email campaign - what's the point of sending if the recipient is going to reject it? 🤔

@jessethanley This feels like something you might have thoughts about?

[Jakob Skjerning @mentalizer]

@mikker @petersuhm Tak for ordene, en gammel mand bliver jo helt rød i hovedet 😆 #railsog

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@petersuhm But look at that horrible og image 😁🙄

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@petersuhm 😘

[Jakob Skjerning @mentalizer]

Already in alpha-release, Rails 8.0 is great. The Solid-* stuff, asset pipeline simplification, Hotwire goodness, and SQLite embrace all play so well into the One Person Framework idea. These are exiting times!

[Simon Høiberg @SimonHoiberg]

8 rapid-fire truths about being a bootstrapped founder 👇

1. You don't need to be an expert.
2. Most of your ideas will fail (so come up with many).
3. Building a great product is the easy part.
4. Marketing is where most founders struggle.
5. No, AI won't replace you. It'll help you.
6. You don't need VC money.
7. It's not as hard as you think.
8. But it takes longer than you think.

[Jakob Skjerning @mentalizer]

@tveskov #altrundt

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The original goatse?! 🙈

[Jakob Skjerning @mentalizer]

@nateberkopec Whats the cache expiry story? If 1 user is touched, will the cache for all have to be rebuilt, or just for that single user?