Practical Computer

“Bug fixes and performance improvements”

"small tweaks"

:SHIPIT:

A pull request that has over 9,000 lines added, and over 25,000 lines deleted

To quote @kaspth.com: "LGTM"

With Web Awesome moving towards its release date; I’m finally starting to get a proper design for our apps. The theming is still WIP, but the components are much more cohesive

If you’re gonna be at RailsConf, I’m hosting an unofficial hang before the conference kicks off! lu.ma/railshang…

The Practical Framework 3.0.0 (alpha 1): https://blog.practical.computer/2025/06/02/the-practical-framework-alpha.html

Friendship with Scrivener over: https://blog.practical.computer/2025/05/22/friendship-with-scrivener-over.html

A great read: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/rejecti…

After 3+ years of work and refining in private repos, I’ve finally published an open-source implementation for client-side error handling that should work for 99% of cases! github.com/practical…

This is still one of the best guides & approaches for progressively enhanced form errors. I’ve been running a version of it for 2 years; and will be open-sourcing that library in the next few weeks

cloudfour.com/thinks/pr…

Overhauling an existing app's view layer without halting development: https://blog.practical.computer/2025/04/08/overhauling-an-existing-apps-view.html

Coming soon!

Rails View Layers in 2025: https://blog.practical.computer/2025/03/22/rails-view-layers-in.html

An iOS Lock Screen, with a push notification from Little CRM that says “What’s happened this week?” A dog with a bandana that says “chaotic bisexual” is in the background

Sneak peek of a new feature that’s coming soon to Little CRM

A screenshot from a component preview, notably with the following error text when 4 days a week are chosen: "You picked too many days a week; please pick 3 or less. We arenʼt Duolingo here; I donʼt want to nag you every day—no one wants that."

Having fun with error messages once again

I’m starting to add notifications, reminders, followups, prompts to Little CRM. Let me know your thoughts and what you’d find valuable (and more importantly, what you’d find annoying!)

Now that I’m in the phase of m... https://blog.practical.computer/2025/02/20/im-starting-to-add-notifications.html

New tool: Mustachio Extism Plugin: https://blog.practical.computer/2025/01/16/new-tool-mustachio-extism-plugin.html

A colorful illustration of a lab, with the text “How Little CRM is going to try to build a system to try to help folks who aren’t just plain weird, when the space is filled with just plain weirdos” on a chalkboard in the center on the left: Buffy, a white dog, is looking at a bug under a microscope. A vest on Buffy reads “bug inspector.” To the right, a man frantically tries to explain a technical concept to a herding dog, Kira. There is a mishmash of technical ideas strewn about the cork board next to the man (who is holding a cigarette), most of which is hastily scribbled in.

I know this isn't exactly what @lollibeepop.bsky.social intended for our Technical Writeup header images, but if the energy fits…😅 blog.practical.computer/2024/12/12/h...

How Little CRM is going to try to build a system to try to help folks who aren’t just plain weird, when the space is filled with just plain weirdos: https://blog.practical.computer/2024/12/12/how-little-crm.html

Little CRM update: I’m thinking of hiding “Events” from the UI while I work on the new posting UI. Folks haven’t groked it yet, and I’m thinking they make more sense as special kind of attachment to a micropost, than their own distinct items.

A screenshot of Little CRM's timeline, with 4 section filter links at the top: Everything with 10K entries, Posts with 5.1K, Events with 5.1K, and First Meeting with 100

A peek into the UI overhaul for Little CRM’s timeline. First up is top-level filtering by the entry type, with (rounded) counts. The idea is to help the user avoid blindly navigating.

A screenshot of the GitHub app, for Little CRM, with 1,337 commits

14-year-old-me is chuckling

Drop notes here!

Just finished the first weekend of alpha bugfixes for Little CRM. Improved the readability & grouping of timeline entries a good bit, and finally added avatars to people.

Just finished the first weekend of alpha bugfixes for Little CRM. Improved the readability & grouping of timeline entries a good bit, and finally added avatars to people.

Little CRM’s initial alpha is live!: https://blog.practical.computer/2024/11/19/little-crms-initial.html

Another reason I love Oaken: I’ll be able to setup a reliable, sandboxed, as-needed dataset for performance testing. It’s all powered by a single file, I could run it in test/dev, and easy to maintain

gist.github.com/tcannonfo…

The initial alpha will be coming soon! Here’s the punchlist, minor stuff

Little CRM’s early alpha is almost ready! The plan:

Get this alpha ready to ship
Write a blog post explaining what’s in the early alpha currently, and how it works

That way folks can see what the ethos is, and talk about signing up! So far the reaction has been excitement