Mike Dalton
@kcdragon
Developer. Building Socials:
In three weeks, I'll be speaking at RubyConf Africa about my experiences building a Hotwire Native app for Calendar Vision. I'm really looking forward to meeting the African Ruby community and visiting Africa for the first time.
Last Tuesday, Neha presented her talk "Powerful Data: Making Rails Apps Faster with Aggregation" at @phillyrb.org. We meet every third Tuesday at @indyhall.org. We've been getting 15-20 people the last couple events and we'd love for even more people to join us!
Accidentally listened to the clean version of Tears and learned they bleep out “wet” 🤣
Tomorrow (Tuesday), Neha Abraham will be presenting her @RubyConf talk "Powerful Data: Making Rails Apps Faster with Aggregation" at @phillyrb.org at @indyhall.org. All are welcome!
This week I spoke at @RubyConf for the first time. This conference has been a big part of my life the last 10 years so it was really cool to take the stage for the first time and share what I’ve been working on.
I actually took @pragdave.bsky.social approach when building Authentication Hell for my @RubyConf talk. DragonRuby doesn’t prescribe a file structure so I just started with main.rb and everything in that file.
Matz at RubyConf: “Give up the keystrokes, not the responsibility.” Love this.
Thanks for having me at @phillyrb.org last night! I got a lot of great feedback on my game and talk for @RubyConf
Even the Comcast Center outdoor TV isn’t immune to this annoying pop up 🤦 We missed the France goal because of this lol
After proving out that authentication would work, I worked on adding more mechanics and improving the aesthetic of the game. This is where I'm at today.
I started by building a proof of concept DragonRuby game that could be embedded into a Rails app. I wanted to prove that I could require the user to authenticate when an action happened in the game.
I like what Philly has done with the south side of Market right before the World Cup and All Star Game. It may not look like much but it usually looks a lot worse here.
My doctor told me I need to stop eating potato chips. Not buying all three kinds took a lot of restraint.
This is one of the weirder ways I've been asked to select a state on a website. It looks like a dropdown but then it opens a modal with radio buttons representing each state.
Claude Design does a pretty good job with app store screenshots. Five images for both iOS and Android translated into five different languages. It was able to get the dimensions and file size right with a little prompting.
I recently redid the home page for Calendar Vision. The original one had some AI generated placeholders that I wanted to eventually replace. I think the new one does a better job of providing examples showing how you can use Calendar Vision. I'd love feedback if anyone has it.
Stain glass panels are really popular in Philly rowhomes. I finally got one for mine.
This is a cool feature in @conductor_build. Submit a feature idea prompt and they might run it and include it. I'd love an easy way to setup a new project for use with Conductor. I already prompt Conductor to configure Conductor. I want a button that prompts Conductor for me.
Claude asking me this is so annoying. It's obvious it should be fixed but I easily miss it when queueing additional prompts.
Does it drive anyone else crazy that Unreads isn't shown by default in Slack? That's my favorite view.
I've started using @Hetzner_Online for my projects. I'm running into an issue where I cannot get a better instance in US East. I've tried 3 times over the past couple weeks and get the same error each time. Are they at capacity? Am I doing something else wrong?
All microwave popcorn bags say don’t use the popcorn button and all microwaves have a popcorn button. What’s wrong with the popcorn button?
The Apple AI feature I actually want is to search settings for things like "don't turn off display on battery".