Reading Kamal configuration
If you configured your config/deploy.yml file for Kamal, you might thought about working with this very configuration outside Kamal. Here’s how. TIP: Checkout Kamal Handbook, my new book on Kamal. …
Business Class 1.4 with SEO-optimized blogging
Business Class is developing at a rapid speed. The 1.4 version brings Framer-inspired blogging. SEO-optimized blogging The major addition for this release is a built-in blog. Everybody and my grandpa …
How to upgrade to Linux Mint 21.3
It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 21, 21.1 and 21.2 to version 21.3. If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience. 1. Create a system snapshot You can use Timeshift to make a system snapshot before the upgrade. If anything goes wrong, you can easily restore your […]
Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia”. Linux Mint 21.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. New features: This new version of […]
Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?
Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core concept in Git (commits! branches! remotes! the staging area!) and commits have been surprisingly tricky. Understanding how …
Monthly News – December 2023
Happy New Year! Many thanks for your support and for your donations. We received $10191 in November and $24146 in December. The number of donors was also quite impressive: 383 in November and 751 in December! I’d like to thank you all for this and what it means to us. It doesn’t just help us […]
Business Class 1.3 with support for Stripe and an improved CRUD generator
Start your 2024 business on Business Class 1.3! Stripe The major addition for this release is initial Stripe support. You can start, cancel, and update payment details for Stripe subscriptions. …
Some notes on NixOS
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my continuing experiments with Nix. My motivation for this …
2023: Year in review
Hello! This was my 4th year working full time on Wizard Zines! Here are a few of the things I worked on this year. a zine! I published How Integers …
Alternative BigInt ID identifiers for Rails
Rails comes with default BigInt IDs for your primary keys since version 5.1 (replacing regular Int) and offers UUID v4 as an supported alternative since version 6. But what are …
Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” – BETA Release
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia”. Linux Mint 21.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. New features: This new version of Linux Mint contains […]
Monthly News – November 2023
Many thanks for your donations and for your support! I’ll be brief today because we’re a little bit late in our schedule. The holiday season is coming and so is Linux Mint 21.3. Linux Mint 21.3 The ISO images for Linux Mint 21.3 are currently in QA. We’re almost done with the testing. We’re expecting […]
Mounting git commits as folders with NFS
Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE filesystem for a git repository where all every commit is a folder? It turns out the …
2023 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1.1M to support privacy, competition, and digital rights
2023 marks DuckDuckGo’s thirteenth year of donations—our annual program to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online. This year, we’re proud to donate to …
git branches: intuition & reality
Hello! I’ve been working on writing a zine about git so I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot. I keep hearing from people that they find the way git …
Some notes on nix flakes
I’ve been using nix for about 9 months now. For all of that time I’ve been steadfastly ignoring flakes, but everyone keeps saying that flakes are great and the best …
Business Class 1.2 with Rails 7.1, Tailwind, and GoodJob
Business Class 1.2 is here just in time for Black Friday. Tailwind The first big change is switching from Bulma to Tailwind. Bulma is not innovating and became extremely unpopular …
How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
Hello! I was trying to explain to someone how git cherry-pick works the other day, and I found myself getting confused. What went wrong was: I thought that git cherry-pick …
git rebase: what can go wrong?
Hello! While talking with folks about Git, I’ve been seeing a comment over and over to the effect of “I hate rebase”. People seemed to feel pretty strongly about this, …
Confusing git terminology
Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that after almost 15 years of using git, I’ve become very used to git’s idiosyncracies and it’s …