Ian Forsyth

hoaHQ is live! Excited to start building and selling. This one might have legs and I’m stoked for the journey. Here we gooooo hoahq.co

PR Patrol expired today but….

Shutting down my last side project for my new one. prpatrol.com was a fun app to build and maintain over the last few years but it was never meant to be a business. The domain is expiring and I'm just gonna let it fade away 🤷🏼‍♂️

Revelation of the night: using an animated translation and clip-path with the right values produces a really awesome faux scroll

Been messing around with css animating an svg for a new landing page. It's been a while since I've had to tear myself away from fun work.

@cmdkhalilov How to google!

Today I googled how to write a simple SQL query syntax, a simple GraphQL mutation syntax, a simple Ruby construct and re-read some basic AWS docs. I had to ask myself, what do I actually know? 😅

Dry January but you only drink dry wines

Took me some time to realize that this is a real video

In my ongoing crusade against "big wrapping paper" I will say that a mosaic of the photo pages in @patagonia catalogues is the perfect Christmas present wrapper.

I’ve been woodworking as a hobby the last few years and have just started selling pieces lately. I wanted something customer facing I could start building a reputation through so Maple Vein is up and running! maplevein.com

I'm excited to sit down soon and lay out some high level goals for 2022 but for sure one of them is going to be to get my dog's new instagram to more followers than my personal one. instagram.com/bluetickgonzo/

Just now realizing what a great opportunity Black Friday is to unsubscribe from marketing emails. Oh hi random company whose website I visited 4 years ago, no I don't want 10% off thank you, UNSUBSCRIBE.

I don't think I'll depart far from Ruby/JS for any upcoming projects but I like to integrate new technologies into new projects just to keep them interesting. Rebuilt my personal site on NextJS and will probably use that to spin up future landing pages. ianforsyth.com

I've been primarily a twitter consumer the last few years, but I think 2022 is going to take me on a few new journeys and it might be fun to contribute to/participate in the communities I've been getting so much value from. Starting with a blank slate and here we go!

@Shpigford Trying to get a property management company in a high demand city to care about your issues is nearly impossible. You’ll wait weeks/months trying to get a response.

@Shpigford Can’t agree with this one. I’ve been living in apartments the last seven years and just bought my first place. I’m sure there’s cognitive load dealing with your own issues. But there’s also a lot (maybe more) trying to get someone else to deal with them.

Home ownership is overrated.

@Shpigford We just started paying for Smartlook, happy with it so far as a Fullstory alternative and much much cheaper

Anyone know of a FullStory alternative that doesn't cost thousands per month? Absolutely love FullStory as a product, but its pricing is clearly not meant for small businesses.

@Shpigford @sidekiq This was always my go to for handling that - noobsnippets.wordpress.com/2014/12/24/cle…

Related: Anyone know of a way to basically nuke a @sidekiq queue? Have tried `queue.clear` but given the # of jobs, it will take years to actually clear it that way.