David Jones

Web & mobile dev. Ruby on Rails, JS, React, Swift, teaching/mentoring. He/him. Black & LGBTQIA lives matter. @[email protected]

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

There’s a GoFundMe link at the bottom of the news story, so you know it’s legit, but here it is also:
https://t.co/sjeepvZdzt

If you can help, please consider it. They are facing a mountain of bills and a lifetime of hurt.

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

Close family of mine's car was hit by someone fleeing the police, who T-boned them, flipping the car into a ditch, where it burst into flames with everyone inside.

They lost their 2 month-old baby & their 3 year-old is now in the hospital with burns over 60% of his body.

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

Their dad also suffered a fractured spine, lacerated spleen, broken ribs, and burns.
2 police officers were also injured.

Here’s a local news story about it:
https://t.co/JOykls3z8t

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@RetroTechDreams If you happen to have an SGI with fsn installed, this can help you recreate the Jurassic park experience: https://t.co/YmyBRfMf23

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@usmcamgrimm There are some methods in this file where you pass a `language_name` argument, so if you put in a string, it can be accessed as a string, and if you put in a symbol, you can access it as a symbol, but not interchangeably. So I'm not quite sure what you mean.

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@usmcamgrimm language_name in that example is a “bareword”, which is probably a local variable (but could be a method) not a string. It might be returning a symbol. Which exercise is it?

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@kvlly https://t.co/B8FcsV53sZ

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@i_zzzzzz I wrote some code to populate an SGI IRIX directory with directories and files of certain names and sizes to simulate what’s shown in the movie. Code: https://t.co/YmyBRfMf23 Video: https://t.co/yJpl96zhcN

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@Shpigford Detroiters, Sprung, Better off Ted, Reaper

[Kyle Keesling @kylekeesling]

Do I have any Ruby friends out there that might be looking for a new opportunity?

I’ve been a team of one since the beginning of my company (over 10 years!) but am finally ready to grow.

We have two mature Rails apps running the latest versions of Rails and Ruby, and I’ve begun to sprinkle in a bit of Turbo/Hotwire for good measure. I’m looking for an enthusiastic self starter who’s not afraid to roll up their sleeves and ship 🚢

I’ve never ran or been on a dev team before so my biggest ask would be for your patience and guidance to help me make an environment where you can do your best work.

You’d be working shoulder to shoulder with me, and you’d ideally get to the point where you’ll have a sense of freedom and ownership over our apps much in the same way that I do.

Please DM me if interested!

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@sophaskins 7.04 here if you want it, shipping cost only. Disc inside is perfect condition.

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@sophaskins 7.04 for PC if you want it. Disk inside is in perfect (unused) condition. https://t.co/mIN613bRQ3

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@AkkalonAS This description reminded me of The Trigger Effect: https://t.co/97NYqUQ3FC

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@Kvpendergast @herokustatus https://t.co/UN8JsqQbC5

[Heroku Status @herokustatus]

Resolved: Delays/failures in Release phase https://t.co/h8Vsqa25in

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@jnunemaker I’m a big fan of BrainWave. Been using it for many years. It has preset binaural tone & white noise generators that can be masked by music. Supposedly influences mood unconsciously: https://t.co/gYG7J00ZND

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@_swanson You can also use dotted string keys to scope filter params, which can be handy if you have params that share a name, but only some are filtered; and you can also use a proc to only partially filter or obscure a value.

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@trendoid It has RSS feeds embedded in that page, but they don't actually work. I opened a ticket with them over it at some point. We only know there's a problem when people start complaining, but maybe I should be scraping it hourly or something :/

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@_swanson Actually adding to Date::DATE_FORMATS does work if you use the proc form. I like this because it makes things simpler at the call site:

[David Jones @unixmonkey]

@_swanson Use separate date formats for both versions. This is the kind of thing I've had to detangle during internationalization efforts. In some localizations, the year comes before the date. Adding to DATE_FORMATS also works, but those don't change when switching languages.