Lessons Learned From the Software Industry
The software industry is changing and with the inclusion of many new coding agents it's just moving faster and faster. While I would love to be able to code everything by hand because of the …
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When you work with various LLMs, especially tool oriented LLM's like Cursor, it's often helpful to prompt the tool with some context of what the project is, what it does, why and how it works. This is …
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I recently migrated Listomo (my email marketing platform) from Sidekiq to Solid Queue. There are lots of posts out there showcasing how various companies migrated to Solid Queue from Sidekiq but they …
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Unfortunately there's no "point-and-click" way to back up your managed Digital Ocean database. Here's how you can do it with the pg_dump command (docs). You'll need to have pg_dump already …
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If you're using importmap with Rails and you need to pin a particular version, here's how you can do that: This would pin version 1.9.0 of editorjs/list into your application. Without the …
A lesson on why the basics matter more than you think ... and how this simple conversation changed my life, and how it might help change yours. I used to race motocross in the late 90's. One …
