Joshua Wood

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It sure feels like Laravel and Rails are diverging on deployment ideology, with Taylor raising a Series A to launch a cloud platform and DHH leaving the cloud for a single server.

As I’m writing alt text for old photos, I noticed that my favorite photos are often the hardest to explain textually.

FrozenRecord looks cool:

Active Record-like interface for read only access to static data files of reasonable size.

It supports JSON and YAML out of the box, but you could i.e. extend it to support markdown files with YAML frontmatter (I bet).

No, your phone is [still] not listening to you. That’s [still] not why you got that Instagram ad.

Guy called wrong support number to complain about support wasting his life.

I realized that our old 8MP Cannon EOS Digital Rebel XT qualifies for the current Shitty Camera Challenge, so I got it cleaned up today! Last used in 2016 when my daughter was born.

A hand holding a Canon EOS camera, focused on a rose in the foreground with a blurred garden background.

man, I wish paperbacks would just include the eBook. I like to read the the physical book, but it’s useful to archive and search the eBook.

I wander downstairs to find Kaylin talking to a small bird on her windowsill. I married Mary Poppins.

A person with blue hair looks out a window at a small bird perched outside, surrounded by various items like jars, a mortar and pestle, and a phone on the windowsill. A small bird sits outside a window, visible through a screen, with a grassy and paved background.

The next debate should be an actual game of golf, no caddies.

There’s a spider under my desk so I guess I’m technically coworking today.

Google Search is an overlay

Interesting read from Mike Caulfield on the failings of the current LLM debate and what search could be.

Part of the reason the discourse around AI and the future of search is so deathly boring is that it consists of two warring factions, neither of which discuss a search experience I recognize or find compelling.

Twitter/X just keeps getting worse. I can’t write anything in their web UI because it regularly eats the draft and I have to start over.

(If you’re wondering why I bother, I have a business audience that I just can’t reach elsewhere.)

Getting a lot of Wise.com (TransferWise) phishing emails breaking through the spam filter lately. Stay safe out there.

Sending my 8yo screenshots of Know Your Meme to explain the origins of Grumpy Cat. This whole parenthood thing is starting to get good.

It was great catching up with Adam from Judoscale on FounderQuest this week.

Longtime friend of the pod Adam McCrea joins Josh and Ben to catch up and chat about his journey building Judoscale—an autoscaling service for Heroku, Render, and AWS!

Scaling Judoscale with Adam McCrea

“Reck is lightweight compared to other Ruby web frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra. We handle only the routing and middleware layers using Ruby’s built-in exception system to raise requests to the client. Flow control in Ruby has never been easier.”

rack is to reck as snake is to snek

Who wants to join my secret Honeybadger Discord?

Things we could chat about there:

  • DevOps, monitoring, observability
  • Indie SaaS and marketing
  • Junior devs/early career
  • General goofing off

Send me an email if you’d like to join (josh at honeybadger.io).

To be honest, “DHH switches to Linux and discovers ricing” was not on my 2024 bingo card.

I really enjoyed all of the talks at Blue Ridge Ruby. It’s so much work to create a good presentation—thanks to all of the speakers! Here are some moments from day two (Friday).

Travis Turner of Evil Martians presents a slide at Blue Ridge Ruby conference featuring an image of a lively classroom discussion, engaging with the audience while pointing to the projected content. Louis Antonopoulos presents at Blue Ridge Ruby conference on "Glimpses of Humanity: My Game-Building AI Pair," wearing a shirt with a Van Gogh-inspired design, addressing an audience with a slide displayed behind him. Rachael Wright-Munn presents on "Validate Me! Demystifying Rails Validators" at Blue Ridge Ruby conference, gesturing expressively while addressing the audience, with the presentation title displayed on the screen behind her. Dustin Haefele-Tschanz presents "The Pursuit of Happiness: Applying Studies in Positive Psychology to Optimize Well-being" at Blue Ridge Ruby conference, engaging the audience with a slide displayed behind him, featuring his contact information and professional title. Confreaks Owner/CEO Cindy Backman presents a lightening talk at Blue Ridge Ruby conference. Jeremy Smith praises the work of Andy Croll and others at Blue Ridge Ruby conference, with a photo of Andy and a webpage screenshot projected behind him.

Have we considered that Mulder and Scully are actually not good special agents and that’s why they’re in a made-up department that the brass created to fuck with them?