A video of these trains: https://youtu.be/b_LRlE0i2TE

Classic trains waiting for restoration (Old trains in the middle of nowhere) Belgium Jan 2024

Run: Photo; Loc: Six Mile Waterworks Park; Date: 2025-06-01; Camera: High Res Floppy(Sony Mavica MVC-FD95 w/ MSAC-FD2M); Proj: Retro Cam - 1
Notes - The leaves popped with green today after the rain from yesterday.
#rails #leaves #green #moss #tower #metal #fun #colorful #interesting #photo #photography

Welp, #Ruby just can't quit #Rails. Or the corporate sponsorship dollars which are totally "ick" you might say.

The problem with niche markets—like Ruby—is if you don't stand on moral principles and core values, uh, what is the actual point? I can just pivot to TypeScript and be in the programming mainstream, messy and regularly unethical as it is.

Ruby as a community has lost all appeal. MINASWAN is nostalgia, not present reality. You can have your DHH and your AI!

I'll have no part of it.

Also, important PSA if you're working with #Rails, (and this may actually be a #Ruby thing, or maybe a #PostgreSQL thing, or combination):

I was trying to run a seeds.rb file to load data into my test env db. That script references an external (local) file with a bunch of items, each line being correctly formed data for an ltree path.

I kept getting errors on line one. I tried a bunch of things, and none worked.

Turns out my text file had a UTF-8 BOM, and script no likey.

3+h of madness.

New blog post: how we made more efficient use of a web app's database for a substantial performance boost https://blog.pablobm.com/2025/05/28/batch-and-delay-db-writes-improve-performance/

In short:
1. Group together sequential `INSERT` statements to the same table.
2. Temporarily store large blobs of data in #Redis or similar, if storing in a relational database is only useful later and only in certain events.

There, that's the meat of the article. I saved you having to read it

The specific stack was #Ruby #Rails #Postgres, but the technique was mostly technology-independent.

(And because we have now come to this: no "AI" was used at any point in the writing of this article ).

Labor is the most expensive part of repairs.

The Repair App we're working on depends on being low cost because repairs are already too expensive.

Now that #rails v8 has folded caching, queueing and pub/sub into the db and removed the need for redis, my favorite framework is even easier.

That's one less resource demanding compute and one less dependency demanding attention when stuff starts breaking.

https://therepair.app

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