Brian Reese

@NashSevereWx @keithmohrworld The chairs on the north side of the pool deck were barely moved. There’s definitely a line or path of damage when you drive through the neighborhood streets and look at the trees. The closer to Reserve Blvd, the more tree damage you see.

@NashSevereWx @keithmohrworld Look at the street trees along Reserve Blvd. Well, what’s left of the ones along the neighborhood pool. Then look at the grass along the other side of Reserve Blvd. Don’t miss the metal hanging from the utility lines and someone’s trampoline.

No problem achieving the necessary 1.21 gigawatts in Thompson's Station. Storm capable of 50-55 mph winds and nickel size hail. Tonnns of lightning.

@NashSevereWx @keithmohrworld The neighborhood there might have some video from the pool security cameras depending on where the wind was focused. Most of the chairs on the south side of the pool were blown over and one lounge chair was hung up on the fence and another across the road.

@amacarthur No need for the “ultra” features. The “ultra” is more rugged and has dive watch features but, if you’re just swimming in a pool, the series 9 would be fine.

tell me if i should go with the apple watch series 9 or ultra and why. potential factors: i don’t swim much. i run outdoors quite a bit, regardless of the weather. i have the wrists of a lady.

@jpsilvashy @robbyrussell There’s been too many half baked changes released with regard to the asset pipeline. This is holding back legacy applications due to the scope of the changes and lack of a clear solution.

@robbyrussell All of the changes to assets and building/compiling css and js. Feels like whiplash past few years with going from sprokects, to webpack, then to jsbundler etc. can’t keep up with all the changes.

What parts of the Ruby on Rails framework have you recently felt most intimidated by?

@hopsoft If all you have is a static site, the generator might be easier to setup and hosting might be more affordable or free even. Also, less infrastructure to setup and secure. Usually if you NEED a backend language, you need more resources for your app/dynamic content.

Curious if anyone using static site generators has compared benchmarks with a full stack solution behind a CDN. I’d expect similar performance, albeit with a bit more configuration. If accurate, why bother using a static site generator vs something like litestack + a $2-4/mo VM + free CDN?

@danwattDev @amacarthur Yeah, the battery has definitely swelled and the OS updates have ended. I might attempt a battery replacement and let one of the kids use it for their school work.

@breese524 @amacarthur Also, wasn't it the 2015 models that had bad swelling issues? My personal MBP is a 2015, bought used from my 2021 employer for $50. It's battery had been replaced. The only issue I have now is that it doesn't get new MacOS updates (though there are ways around that)

I meant the same year as @amacarthur. 2015-2023 is a pretty good run for the battery. Had Apple chosen to not glue the battery in, I’d have considered replacing it. However, given the age of the laptop I opted to purchase something newer.

@amacarthur @CreeCoder The battery on my MBP of the same year has completely died. Other than the trouble that causes, it’s very capable. I’ve decided to replace it with a MacBook Air that was on sale, not the newest model but it’ll have plenty of power for my needs.

@CreeCoder still doing just fine on my 2015 macbook pro i bought used years ago.

You DON’T need a $5000 MacBook Pro to code. A $2000 MacBook Air will work just fine.

Software engineers and developers, just because a field contains a sting of integers does not make the field an integer. Stop processing fields as integers by default. In most cases, I’d rather convert a string to an integer, not the other way around.

@amacarthur You’re right about the only time you would have it fail is if something is intentionally mangling it. Usually, those people know who they are and what they did.

Becoming convinced that “you should never use the user-agent header” is a dogmatic sacred cow we need to strangle. If it’s useful and you know it’s not being mangled or stripped by some reverse proxy, use it.

@amacarthur Define affordable. The sky is the limit when you start down the path of a mechanical keyboard. I really like my Code Keyboard from WASD. However, a couple of years later, they added a 61 key to their product list that I would love to try, it’d be much more portable than my 87 key

I solicit your thoughts on affordable but solid mechanical keyboards. Keychron is popular. Others? I hear NuPhy is pretty good?

@amacarthur More bugs is not something that will keep dyi enthusiasts around. It might be worth the effort to look into something else. I’ve been using Apple devices for a long time, I’m not worried about switching away from the iOS platform.

It’s definitely not as mature. Fewer devices are compatible with it, fewer third-party services work with it, and it’s overall more expensive. But I’ve been moving more into the Apple ecosystem anyway, and Home Assistant has been getting buggier and buggier over time. I’m just over it. Up for a change, despite the tradeoffs.

Are you a Homebridge user? If so, how’s it working for you? Looking to move away from the Google Home ecosystem and wondering if this’ll work for devices w/o HomeKit support. homebridge.io

@amacarthur @immad Why should I use your app instead of going to the library (if I lived in LA)? (lacountylibrary.org/tools/)

Toolshed: a neighborhood tool sharing platform. Large tools (ex: table saw) are expensive and impractical for many families to purchase. Toolshed would be sold through HOAs and aim to build community amongst neighbors through sharing tools. Benefit to HOA: a stronger, more attractive community. Benefit to consumers: save money, build relationships.

Respond to this tweet with a startup idea. I will tell you whether I would take a investor meeting or not and why for that idea, assuming it came in from a strong warm intro. I can tell in 280 chars whether an idea is interesting to me and why. Maybe it will be useful feedback.

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@amacarthur It’s signature sand which is the same as a Burger King whooper with mustard. I have no idea why people rave about it.

It’s pretty decent, but nothing close to the fast food Zion people make it out to be.

Second time at Whataburger. Just confirms my initial impression of how overrated this chain is.

@GergelyOrosz These deals have been around since I can remember. They are betting you're going to do something to ruin the deal like miss a payment and forget to pay it all off at the end of the term. Then you're hit with high interest rates and/or fees.

Wth high interest rates, how is any Buy Now Pay Later model viable? The reason these worked: 1. BNPL providers could borrow ridiculously cheap (almost free) 2. Thus the merchant's fee accounted for the risk they took + their profit Is there a viable business at high rates?

@amacarthur @amyfritz If you're wondering where I got that information, it was from this thread: twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww… courtesy of @mellowfish

@amacarthur @amyfritz @amacarthur and @amyfritz Have you compared SVB the collapse of WaMu in 2008-ish? There's a lot of hysterics flying around regarding SVB. However, the same process has been followed. SVB suffered from a lack of deposit diversity & poor planing by the bank operators.

Good time to note the importance of building up an emergency fund in your budget. Way too much uncertainty out there.