Ben Pickles

For the last few years my website has been a Rails app running on Netlify using a library I wrote to turn any Rack app into a static build. It's now super simple to turn a Sinatra app into a static site that's deployed to GitHub Pages on every push benpickles.com/articles/90-in… #ruby

@dpaola2 @RubyCademy using a normal `if` would change the Gemfile.lock depending on the output of the `if` whereas with this approach it'll always be included in the lockfile. thank you for the tip @RubyCademy 🙏🏻

@RubyCademy Dumb question: why can’t you use a normal if statement here?

Use 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹_𝗶𝗳 for conditionally installing your gems! 💎 #gemfile #ruby #bundler

It is the highest honour to headline Ruby Weekly rubyweekly.com/issues/646 💖 @cooperx86

@maxthelion old! 🎂

Announcing Operatic, a minimal standard interface to encapsulate your Ruby operations (often referred to as “service objects”) benpickles.com/articles/87-an…

@zimbatm I’ve been using 1Password‘s SSH agent for some weeks now developer.1password.com/docs/ssh/

Just a reminder that there is lots more to do to sandbox our developer environments.

It's easy to exfiltrate user data during Nix evaluation.

@alinajaf I remember you *banging on* about this some ten years ago, so I practiced touch typing - irregularly and only a little bit - and it delivered me a small but noticeable improvement to using a keyboard every day since 🙏🏻

Probably going to catch a lot of shit for this, but I wrote a thing for new developers I'm mentoring about drilling. In short: a small amount of rote repetition can be extremely good for your technical skills early in your career. najafali.herokuapp.com/notes/make-you…

@sineraves twitter.com/robmesure/stat…

@cloud8421 😘

@benpickles Nice to see you in my timeline!

I’ve resurrected Screamshot, a synchronous HTTP screenshot service I first released in 2016(!), and added a few new features - my favourite is support for `prefers-reduced-motion=reduce` benpickles.com/articles/86-th…

@simonw I’m using it on this page f1everything.com/2021 to skip animating the chart so that I can more easily capture a screenshot for use in the open graph image tag

@simonw hmmm, no... most of the material I can find on the feature seems to be suggesting how it _could_ be used #aa-how-to-test" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">css-tricks.com/introduction-r…

@simonw I’m using headless Chrome in an HTTP screenshot service, my favourite feature is being able to force `prefers-reduced-motion=reduce` mode which can be used as a standards-based hint to prevent animations (useful when taking a screenshot) twitter.com/benpickles/sta…

@ibuckley Draught beer at 10:52! Yes please 👏🏻

Can you see the poodle in my pint?

@b_antunes Choon!

@b_antunes I only hear good things about tailscale.com but I know nothing of these things so it might not be what you need

@alinajaf Bless you

@benpickles Today was a nice Indian place with my no. 1 girl and then expensive cocktails and cognac

I always feel like I should tweet more. Anyone that follows me and is interested in what I have to say, give me three things you’d like me to talk more about. Just one is fine, but three gives me more info about the nuance cluster you want.

@zimbatm This is a great idea, I will try to pop by some time 👍🏻☕️

The cafe is open again! It never really closed, but there are people there now.