Tech My take on NFTs: expensive JPEGs and so much more This is a blog post of various thoughts notes from the past few weeks when diving into NFTs.
Making Rails 6, TailwindCSS, TailwindUI, and Stimulus New App Guide (November 2020) Get started quickly a new Rails 6 app with TailwindCSS, Stimulus included. Follow these instructions and commands.
Building Me New book: Demand-Side Sales by Bob Moesta This book is about just that: Selling products without doing "sales".
Operating Our deployment strategy for on-premise customers (in China) Last year (2019), one of our customers asked if it was possible to run our full recurring commerce platform to sell product subscriptions in China. Hosting something in China is not as straightforward as hosting something for the rest of the world. This article explains how we got it done.
Making Remove flickering flash messages on Turbolinks If you're using Turbolinks, and flash messages in your Rails app, then this might come in handy. You might have seen flickering flash messages on your pages when you re-visit them in your app. This is because Turbolinks caches the full page content in its own internal cache. And this
Building Me The apps I use for habit building and improving health (June 2020) The apps that I use daily for habit building and improving health.
vlogging Popping and clicking with the Røde VideoMic GO My short explanation of the Rode Videomic GO clicking and popping interference. Review: Buy the VideoMicro instead.
Operating Managing app secrets in Kubernetes at Firmhouse At Firmhouse we're gradually migrating from a Dokku-based infrastructure onto a new Kubernetes-based infrastructure setup running on DigitalOcean Kubernetes. Out with manual work. In with automation!
Operating Running-multi server Dokku: problems and options This blog post is a collection of resources and thoughts about running applications via Dokku on a High Available (HA) or multi-server setup. Since Dokku doesn't support multi-server out of the box, this post is a meant of an overview of options that are out there.
CTO Advice CTO advice: A checklist for using cloud databases My "advice from a CTO to you": An overview of security checks and configurations to apply when using managed cloud databases for your apps.
Development Upgrading an existing Intercity installation to the new installer Follow this post to upgrade your current Intercity installation to the new installer method
Development Updated installing Intercity to a single command It just got extremely easy to install Intercity - the web UI for managing Docker applications, plugins, and application deployments.
Product Behind the scenes: Adding custom domain mapping to Airstrip via Traefik.io We are going to add a custom domain mapping feature to our site builder Airstrip and we're using Treafik.io to make it happen.
Development Introducing a Rails 5.1 development environment via Docker A ready-to-use full Rails 5.1 development environment via Docker. Use my repository and follow these instructions to develop Rails apps on your local machine via Docker and docker-compose.
