Brandon Keepers

dotenv 3.0 beta is out! Try it out and let me know if you run into any issues. github.com/bkeepers/doten…

'Tis the season to hack on fun side projects instead of the thing I "should" be doing. I finally open-sourced the app I've been using to read Hacker News in a feed reader. It makes it really quick and easy for me to stay up on latest tech news. github.com/bkeepers/reada…

It's Friday, so we deployed 3 new features. JK, we deployed these days ago behind a feature flag. All we did today was push a couple buttons to flip on Project Overview, Feature Creators & Owners, and Read-only API for everyone. blog.flippercloud.io/feature-owners…

@martijnversluis @StekkerApp Awesome! Glad to hear. Let me know how you think we can make it better

@bkeepers Congrats on this release! We're also using Flipper at @StekkerApp and we think it's great!

Time to put big boy pants on! twitter.com/flipper_cloud/…

@gr2m Thank you, sir!

According to rubygems, I have released 67 different gems. Those gems have been downloaded an astounding (to me) 624 million times. But I've never released a 1.0. Until today! 🎉🥳🎊 Head over to johnnunemaker.com/flipper-1-0/ for the rest of the story (new teammate, sponsorships, generous free tier, etc.). Feels big! If you use flipper or anything I've made in the past 20 years, I'd really appreciate you sharing this!

Feature flags are amazing. I've said it before. I'll say it again (on repeat). They give you control so you can increase confidence and reduce accidents. One way is by using objects other than "users" for flipping features. Flipper actors can be anything, even jobs! We recently migrated to github.com/bensheldon/goo… (and Rails ActiveJob) from delayed job with the snippet in the screenshot of this tweet and few Flipper.enable calls. Zero outages and sweat. Full story here: blog.flippercloud.io/migrating-acti… Have a crazier flipper actor story? I'd love to hear it.

How we helped a customer migrate their Rails application to a new ActiveJob backend -one job at a time-without user-visible interruptions. blog.flippercloud.io/migrating-acti…

@bluewaterboats Can I help you get the site back online?

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@jeffrafter @defunkt @AtomEditor @nathansobo @probablycorey @KevinSawicki @jcsalterego I uninstalled Sublime Text and TextMate that day.

@defunkt @AtomEditor @nathansobo @probablycorey @KevinSawicki @jcsalterego The internal demo that @probablycorey gave where the entire live demo was a scripted plugin but he pretended to type is still one of the greatest demos I have ever seen…

@defunkt @besquared I’ve been listing to this album a lot lately and think of you every time.

Anyone out there with mad thread skills would be welcome to rip apart the background thread polling @bkeepers and I wrote a few weeks ago. github.com/jnunemaker/fli… It's been working fine locally and in production, but I love learning so don't hold back.

@brondsem @Ross_Hunter That was just a few years ago… I am back in the area for the summer. We should go to a show there again.

@Ross_Hunter @bkeepers twitter.com/foundersbrewin… here you go

This is a long shot, but does anyone remember the name of this band? They played at Founders on July 7th, 2012. I've googled to the best of my ability. @bkeepers I think you were there too?

A night unlike any other in American history.

@will_j I was on the team that shipped the first version of GitHub Actions, and this was the primary use case we used in all our examples. Ironically, I have yet to see anyone (myself included) using this workflow. I’d like to, but Heroku has just been too easy…until last week.

We've got a pretty standard Rails app on Heroku (database and ES is already on AWS). Has anyone got a good "containerise your app and push it to ECS from Github actions" guide they can link to?

@defeated @flipper_cloud @jnunemaker Working on it! @Jonmagic and @mattgraham, you’re on notice!

@flipper_cloud @bkeepers Getting the band back together @jnunemaker ?!

Today was a big deal for us. We officially welcomed @bkeepers as an owner. This is his beautiful face after signing the paperwork. He's already been working on things like automatic setup, docs and feature flag organization. Pumped about the year ahead!

@jeffluszcz Is that unusual? We call that “spring” in the midwest.