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davidteren.bsky.social
Cape Town based Ruby on Rails freelancer. Currently: @HealPay (US), TBA SEO solution (US), Solo: Python in-store radio avert assembly solution that part of a bigger streaming system used in (EU/Africa)
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After 15 years off the market, I’m available for hire! I’m an effective, versatile and compassionate technical leader, and an accomplished Rubyist. I’m looking for remote Principal or Staff Engineer roles, at 4 days/week. Find out more: timriley.info/posts/hire-me

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

Rails continues to expand its lead as the single best platform for building web applications backed by SQLite! You can now load extensions directly from the database.yml file. This now means you have quick and easy access to the full range of SQLite extensions 🧵

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Codebuff (previously Manicode) is definitely one of the best code assistants. Rates highly for Rails tasks. Busy with a Python project, Codebuff has played a large part in the success so far. Link for free credits: manicode.ai/referrals/re...

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

New social network, new gem open sourced github.com/stevegeek/awfy Still a messy WIP but you might want to have a look

submitted 131 days ago • 3 comments

And, with the full understanding that I will probably get zero questions, but because I want to test if there's any engagement for Ruby stuff here now.. Ask Me Anything about Ruby/Rails/Tech Publishing/SF Novels, etc...

submitted 131 days ago • 3 comments

My wife and I made this fun website to help web devs learn about an important concept in the Ruby programming language. www.exceptionalcreatures.com

submitted 130 days ago • 2 comments

Where are you hosting your Rails apps? I’m looking for hosted options. Something that uses a Dockerfile is fine- but I’m looking for something other than Kamal for this one.

submitted 130 days ago • 21 comments

As a follow-on to yesterday’s post about disentangling ourselves from Heroku, here’s why we don’t use review apps anymore and what has replaced them (hint: feature flags) jamie.ideasasylum.com/2024/10/31/w...

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday @joel.drapper.me and I were pairing and came up with this lovely test that ensures you have no controllers with public methods that do not have a corresponding route defined.

submitted 130 days ago • 2 comments