clivestaples

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by clivestaples 3y ago
The problem as I see it is the consolidation of power. Add to that instant global enforcement along with the current state of surveillance, an elite group of people have an insane amount of control.
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by clivestaples 3y ago
This just moves the puck. No chance in hell this technology is not abused.
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by clivestaples 3y ago
I think you're right. But for projects needing a database, I can't use anything but Rails. I tried Remix/Next because I like them but it was just taking me too long. Maybe I'm at the point in my life where I can't l
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by clivestaples 3y ago
Here's how I do it in HTMX with Rails: https://viewcomponent.org/
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by clivestaples 3y ago
Her duets with him are amazing!
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by clivestaples 3y ago
I worked there for exactly two months. After 15 days, I could not receive another offer and put in my notice fast enough. Ended up giving them four days. And I'm usually very careful about not burning bridges.
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by clivestaples 3y ago
My father was a plumber. A true trades/craftsman. Big new construction projects were deskilled with "installers" who were mostly under the table immigrants. The warranty claims on $800K became a cottage industry. Custom homes
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by clivestaples 4y ago
The site is very well done and impressed me too. It's built with Next and noticed Astral is backed by Guillermo Rauch himself.
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by clivestaples 4y ago
I recently saw Tom Selleck as a spokesman for reverse mortgages and googled his net worth which came back as $45M. Pretty slimy if you ask me.
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by clivestaples 4y ago
Sounds great. Curious, what did you use for auth?
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by clivestaples 4y ago
Not the OP but officially sanctioned tools and libraries are exactly what I envy from Laravel: auth, search, payments, hosting, etc.
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by clivestaples 5y ago
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. Specifically the chapter called Nice People or New Men.
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by clivestaples 5y ago
I think SPAs were the best solution we had at the time and I enjoyed trying to build good UX with them. Yes, React started fresh and ended up driving me back to Rails because I'm just not smart enough. That said, I am really excited ab
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by clivestaples 5y ago
One hundred percent. I spent five years at a thrashing startup and then crashed and burned at a well-known cloud workflow company. It crushed my spirit. But I remembered a very friendly recruiter who had an opportunity for a tech lead on a
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by clivestaples 5y ago
I do React for my day job. For personal projects and MVPs, I came back to Rails and it has been insanely fun. I can drop in whatever frontend framework I want or none at all.
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by clivestaples 5y ago
Not to sidetrack but how is this better than wrapping Rails/Hotwire app in a Capacitor web view? I'm looking for reasons to use Next because it seems super cool.
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by clivestaples 5y ago
My personal experience is this: I love building stuff. I love the web. For a long time I loved React/Vue but over time I began to worry about desktop, mobile, PWA, future-proofing and found myself way over-thinking MVP and proof-of-con
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by clivestaples 5y ago
React Native unfortunately.
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by clivestaples 5y ago
I am just discovering Laravel and years of Rails, React, etc and it's been a lot of fun. At first glance, DenoDB also seems to have a good level of abstraction.
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by clivestaples 6y ago
I began developing apps the "old-fashioned" way over a year ago. My day job is React but for my side businesses, it's all PWA and Rails. Light React/Vue (depending on my mood) when I need a fine-grained interaction or a
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by clivestaples 6y ago
Not that I can tell. I recently stumbled upon Quasar/Vue and was very impressed. The ecosystem seems to be flourishing.
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by clivestaples 6y ago
I've had almost the opposite experience. I got one questionable bag of onions. Otherwise, after five or six orders, I could not be happier.
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by clivestaples 6y ago
Sometimes I wonder how long "permanent" will be for these decisions. Off topic, but if the permanent work-from-home trend continues, I cannot imagine what is going to happen to commercial real estate. Convert to residential? Is th
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by clivestaples 6y ago
Fraud is fraud. I'll throw rocks at any grifters stealing from me and my family.
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by clivestaples 6y ago
It is absolutely fraud. The whole idea of public service is that you make sacrifices on the front-end, the public takes care of you through benefits and retirement. There were kindergarten teachers making $120K a year for 6.5 hours per day
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by clivestaples 6y ago
I saw that a hundred times at a small school district in Southern California. As retirement nears (age 55-59), take a promotion from the classroom to the district office, and a $50-75K pay raise. Three years later, that is the salary used t
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by clivestaples 7y ago
Looks like mid-February was the first spike in Italy: https://www.corona.cloud/italy NEVER MIND. That chart appears to be global cases.
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by clivestaples 7y ago
Mid-January in San Diego. Fever and head congestion. Extreme fatigue some days. Laid me out for a week and used my first sick time in years. Wife and daughter had less severe form exactly five days after my onset. It was unlike anything we
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by clivestaples 7y ago
I came here to mention Chris Pine. Amazing book and from my brief correspondence with him, a great guy.
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by clivestaples 7y ago
The funny thing is that I was a creative writing major at the time and already knew of him. Of course, I didn't know what he looked like but as soon as he admitted being published, I immediately said, "Oh, you're GORE Vidal,

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