floehopper @floehopper@fosstodon.org
Member of Go Free Range software coop; Ruby developer; author of Mocha Ruby library; sailing & telemark skiing; former Antarctic winterer; proud Green Party member & Remainer.
I've written about setting up a simple Rails development environment using nix-shell...
https://jamesmead.org/blog/2020-09-10-a-simple-rails-development-environment-using-nix-shell
Kent Beck: "Software design is an exercise in human relationships, but that we as technologists have many tools at our disposal to do a better job of maintaining our part of those relationships."
More fun with nix. I've written about modifying the existing GitHub Action workflow that builds my personal website to use cachix/install-nix-action and nix-shell.
https://jamesmead.org/blog/2020-08-07-using-nix-to-build-my-personal-website
Hey folks,
The ruby.social domain name is up for renewal soon, and looking at the overall expenses of running this instance, we could _really_ use a few more supporters on Patreon to help cover costs.
If you can spare a couple of bucks, it'd be really helpful!
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=13237635
Super special thanks to the current patrons: @sidekiq @shanecav @passthejoe @MikeG1 and super-supporter @honeybadger 
🎉
git config --global init.defaultBranch main
I've been playing with the nix package manager, mainly with the intention of using it to setup isolated development environments. I've written up how I used nix-shell to define a Ruby environment for building & serving my personal website locally...
https://jamesmead.org/blog/2020-07-26-a-simple-ruby-development-environment-using-nix-shell
Happy that GitHub have finally seen sense and changed the ordering of commits in pull requests...
https://github.blog/changelog/2020-07-14-pull-request-commits-now-ordered-chronologically/
I've just realised my positively ancient blog RSS feed is still generated via FeedBurner.
http://feeds.jamesmead.org/floehopper-blog
What's the best #indieweb approach for providing a feed these days...?
Thanks in part to inspiration from people on fosstodon.org, I've done some work on indieweb-ifying my personal website.
https://jamesmead.org/blog/2020-06-27-indieweb-ifying-my-personal-website
Hi, everyone. I'm sorry I haven't got round to introducing myself sooner...
I'm a developer at a London-based worker cooperative, Go Free Range (https://gofreerange.com/).
I'm the original author of Mocha (https://mocha.jamesmead.org/), a popular open-source mocking framework for Ruby.
Are there any other Ruby developers on here?
Member of Go Free Range software coop; Ruby developer; author of Mocha Ruby library; sailing & telemark skiing; former Antarctic winterer; proud Green Party member & Remainer.
