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Seattle-area Staff Software Engineer working mostly on web applications. I work mostly in Ruby on Rails and React. Interested in AI and LLM discussions. I sometimes write on joshsaintjacque.com.
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Remember GeoCities? 🏠 Once home to millions of personal websites, today it’s gone… except for what’s preserved on the Wayback Machine. 🌐💾 Explore the web's past with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ https://web.archive.org

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

I mostly cover NgRx, Architecture & Testing - not accessibility. But my latest video is a blend of #Playwright & #A11y! See how easy it is to integrate different a11y aspects into your tests. 🚀 Btw, I made sure the cover is fully a11y compliant 😅 youtu.be/wCzXIa-RLp0

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Just published the first article in a series about how I packaged up Ruby code for @terminalwire.com in a binary that I can distribute to users that don't have Ruby. Article at terminalwire.com/articles/sel... I'm trying a video read-along, which you can watch or listen to at youtu.be/NvjRVhqobPQ

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

💡 CSS Tip! Do you ever want to have one column control the size of another one? It's easier than what you might think! css-tip.com/equal-height... #CSS

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

New from Julie Kent: Imaging you have a Rails endpoint that has slow queries AND performs third-party HTTP requests. With Rails async queries, you can perform these operations in parallel—without being an expert in multithreading. 🚀 www.honeybadger.io/blog/rails-a...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I agree hiring juniors to save money is a mistake, but anyone who's seen the job market knows there's no "epidemic" frenzy to hire them. If anything getting companies to hire juniors is a struggle, since most understand the mentorship required will slow the team down in the short term.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

We can say the transformer architecture doesn't give rise to "intelligence", yet it can perform tasks that previously required a human. We can say an LLM can't "learn", yet it can be instructed on how to do something it previously didn't know how to do. Categories aside, this is going to take jobs.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Grok is garbage. It’s only differentiator is it’s access to the endless stream of trash that’s become Twitter.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

This 1000%

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI 😎

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I liked the fish. And yes my back hurts. 😎

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

TIL: Text areas element’s don’t behave like other HTML elements. I summarized my learnings here: dev.to/blackgirlbyt...

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I love that "drop the heavy Javascript" is the first thing they mention to improve accessibility. We work really hard to break things that are fully accessible out of the box.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Speaking of accessibility, this post is loaded with good insights.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The unemployment rate among software engineers is 2% as of this month. This is not a bad market for tech workers, and we need to stop pretending it is.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder that inaccessible web sites can leave you open to legal exposure. #accessibility #a11y

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I'm really enjoying the ViewComponent gem, in particular writing tests for components. Super easy and fast. #rubyonrails #frontend

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

It's unreasonably nice to be able to actually see the "thought" tokens in DeepThink R1 as opposed to o1 which obscures them from you. I find I'm able to get to the output I want much faster because I know the "why" behind it. #llm #openai #deepseek

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

New Puma release - a few goodies for JRuby, refork users (more coming for this as well), and some observability/debuglogging stuff

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Testing JavaScript used to take so much time (and frustration) out of me but now it's part of my day. It all started with a Node upgrade project. The results? A RailsConf 2024: "From RSpec to Jest: JavaScript Testing for Rails devs". Check it out here: hexdevs.com/posts/railsc...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Here, have whatever this is

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing suspicious about virtually every upvoted post on /r/deepseek is handwaving CCP censorship.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Hackers took data on 190 million Americans from UnitedHealth, "believed to include health insurance member IDs, patient diagnoses, treatment information and social security numbers, as well as billing codes used by providers." They should be fined for every effected person.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

We're launching a complete Hotwire course! ⚡️ Turbo, Stimulus, and Hotwire Native are in a great spot with many patterns and approaches sorted out. We've teamed up with @_williamkennedy to cover as much as we can in one course. Sign up to get notified when we launch: learnhotwire.com

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Jokes on you, my rage drives my productivity.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments