Someone made a Youtube video of about playing and modding a ZX Spectrum game I wrote 37 years ago when I was 16. I've written a bit about this fun reminder of my programming roots.
https://jamesmead.org/blog/2021-01-23-youtube-video-of-my-3d-maze-game-for-the-zx-spectrum
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
I've written about using Lambda@Edge with CloudFront to configure redirect rules for domains as a cheap way to keep URLs cool and avoid breaking the internet.
@IslandUsurper Thanks. I'm still relatively new to Nix and so while I'm learning I'm finding it useful to have the freedom to mess things up!
@IslandUsurper Vagrant is pretty irrelevant to what I'm trying to achieve. I'm just using it so I can try out the nix stuff out on a clean (Ubuntu) OS installation separate from my regular OS.
I now have multiple Rails apps each running in an isolated nix-shell with different versions of Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL & MySQL...
https://jamesmead.org/blog/2020-11-29-multiple-rails-development-environments-using-nix-shell
> Without saying what year you started coding, Quote this tweet with something (an ide, a build/ deploy process) to signify how long you've been coding
From: https://twitter.com/yoruba_dev/status/1328987589391622151
How I've used https://webmention.app and https://actionsflow.github.io to automate sending Webmentions from my static website.
https://jamesmead.org/blog/2020-10-13-sending-webmentions-from-a-static-website
I've written up my latest adventures with Nix, Ruby, Rails and PostgreSQL...
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."
@consoleaccess I've been really impressed with dnsimple so far, and although I haven't actually used their API in anger, it looks great!
https://dnsimple.com/r/516e66f8370981 [link with referral code]
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
@delriousDenizen @doug I think either language is fine for new developers - just a matter of personal taste really. And when you've got the hang of using one, you'll find it very easy to use the other! Good luck!
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