Building that vanity metric counter was fun. Since I'm borderline allergic to websockets for things this simple, I'm using a countup and 30s polling.

Pretty pleased with the result.

😂

currently working on this as well.

The Value of In-Person Events Why getting in the room beats watching the stream.

The Value of In-Person Events jaredlemler.com/blog/in-pers...

What a photo! #CascadiaJS @cmgriffing.bsky.social

Also, want to thank a few folks as well for being open to having conversations with me: @andrewdmaclean.bsky.social @jasontorres.bsky.social @melkey.bsky.social @philna.sh @chefbrent.com @drewigg.bsky.social @simonplend.bsky.social and many more! Can't wait to make it out to Seattle more often!

Had an incredible experience at @cascadiajs.com , I can't thank @carter.rabasa.com and @cmgriffing.bsky.social enough for giving me the opportunity to be able to come to the West Coast and be a part of the event.

@jaredlemler.bsky.social is wearing this year’s cmgriffing Halloween costume a month too early.

Huge thanks to @cascadiajs.com , @cmgriffing.bsky.social & his stream for the raffle! I’m so grateful to have won a ticket to Seattle for CascadiaJS. Still early in my dev career, learning & finding my path. This is an amazing chance to connect, learn, & grow. Excited for #CascadiaJS!

Big Problems From Big IN lists with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL Introduction If you’ve created web apps with relational databases and ORMs like Active Record (part of Ruby on Rails), you’ve probably experienced database performance problems after a certain size of data and query volume.

Great post by Andy on how to deal with big IN clauses in Postgres. I didn’t even know about ANY.

andyatkinson.com/big-problem...

Tomorrow is my Streamiversary. 7 YEARS!!!
As part of the celebration I will be shaving the mustache live. (long overdue)

We will also be announcing the winner of the giveaway for a free ticket to @CascadiaJS.
You still have time to enter. Just hop into stream and ask for the link.

I Dockerized my FastAPI app – and it was a rollercoaster. From containers refusing to run to finally getting everything working across Mac and Windows, here’s what I learned!

jaredlemler.hashnode.dev/my-docker-le...

From electrician to backend dev.

I just published my first blog about switching careers, building with FastAPI, and why I’m learning out loud.

Read here: jaredlemler.hashnode.dev/from-electri...

#learninpublic #careerchange #fastapi #python #postgresql