Garrett Dimon

You write tests to catch bugs. You use feature flags to survive them in production.

Just slayed the API endpoint performance for flipper cloud. Added memcached around the adapter used to deliver gate data.

Should save me $2-3k/month.

Only because "Limpin' ain't easy" doesn't fit.

A pair of white, low-top Nike dunks. The back tabs on the shoes have been customized to replace the Nike logo with "404" for the left show and "200" for the right shoe.

Looking into some new shoes. Hashtag amputee humor.

Can totally relate on how hard to resist fun activities even when not feeling well. Hope you’re feeling better soon!

That @brilliantcrank.com is so hot right now. Love seeing his voice and perspective in my feed reader.

Keep it up, sir. You’re inspiring some of us to write and explore again.

Yes, you can read Active Record's code · Zoom · Luma What's in Active Record, is it just tons of magic? tl;dr: I'm a former Rails core member showing you in this live session how the parts of Active Record you…

Next Thursday, I'm excited to dive into Active Record's internals and show you what's going on in there.

Let's level you up, dispel some of the magic and have you more confident when you're using Active Record!

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Definitely accurate, and, in my mind, automatically assumed/implied with any aspect of the government “saving money”.

Reducing access to help and resources that can enable people to regain mobility and control over their lives is absolutely a net negative for individuals and society.

Just another way to further diminish and marginalize yet another already disadvantaged group under the guise of saving money.

“On Friday, May 30th, the Presidential Budget eliminated funding for the National Limb Loss Resource Center for federal fiscal year 2026…”

Choosing to amputate was an incredibly difficult decision due to the lack of information and resources, but it was absolutely the right decision for me.

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)

Azimuthal equidistant projection - Wikipedia

Stumbled across “azimuthal equidistant projection” maps, and they’re fascinating both from a geographic standpoint and from the way they show how looking at the same information with a different perspective/context can drastically impact how we perceive something.

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Action View source Deep-Dive · Zoom · Luma This event is a spin off of my overall Rails guided tour where we go deeper into parts of Rails. Guiding You through the Rails Source -…

Just registered for @kaspth.bsky.social's Action View source Deep-Dive. Really looking forward to this! lu.ma/sgjrzf3w?tk=...

Choose the Best Format for Your Podcast: Solo, Interview, Narrative, and More Discover the different podcast formats—from co-hosted conversations to solo shows and narrative storytelling—and find the best fit for your podcasting style.

Solo, co-hosted, interviews, panels — so many ways to podcast! Not sure which format fits you best? We’ve got you covered.

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Had a really fun conversation about my meandering and relatively broad career path in consulting, SaaS, writing, and all that with @jeremysmith.co and @bjessbrown.com. Hadn't ever really thought about how it all connected until they asked.

We had our final game of the season last night. Coaching has consumed every spare moment and emotion and not always been convenient or easy, but it’s enjoyable beyond belief.

Looking forward to a less hectic schedule for a while, but still going to miss it something fierce until next season.

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

Snow report showing 17” of snow in the last 12 hours.

How it’s going right after the last two weeks had felt like Spring was already here.

And it’s wet and heavy snow with more in its way. Crummy time to be sick and struggling and miss out on a pow day.

You know that project you've been meaning to get to for months? It's a thorn in your side, but more urgent stuff keeps coming up...

I can take that off your plate.

I'm still looking to book one more client for the spring. Send me a dm and we can talk about what that'd look like.

I also wondered about that, but since it was first on the list, I just assumed there was a very good reason.

I'm on here too. (Pretty sure I wasn't on the list.)

Great post about AEA and ABA, by the way. Can only imagine the ride, but really appreciate sharing the story and what y'all have done for the community through the years. ❤️

Post a picture of yourself from a different era.

Early 20's. Still had both legs. Could still dunk. Could never spend enough time on a basketball court.

As someone who came from more of a design and front-end background, I put off digging into the Rails source code for far too long. Once I did, everything became easier to understand and reason about.

Having a guide like Kasper in this format would have been huge. bsky.app/profile/kasp...

Guiding You through the Rails Source · Zoom · Luma What problem does this guided tour solve? Rails is your app's biggest dependency and you probably don't know what's going on in there. There's features you're…

If you want to take your Rails career to the next level, you need to start digging into Rails.

Don't sleep on becoming a better code reader, it's a force multiplier (ask me how I know lol).

Sign up here:
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Cold but fair. In my case it was driven more by social network reduction in general rather than any kind of moral judgement about Facebook in particular.

Instead of React as the new Flash, the pace of CSS improvements is making a case that JavaScript in general might be the new Flash.

It doesn't seem wild to imagine that ten years from now, sites could still provide most of the same functionality while barely needing JavaScript at all.

Leaving behind access to the array of amputee/disability groups was absolutely the most difficult thing about quitting it. Those communities helped so much when navigating amputation.

Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?

Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

My software development philosophy:

1. Minimize external dependencies.
2. Actively upgrade dependencies.

"Dependency" is just another word for "save a little time now in order to permanently increase your workload by committing to monitor changes and responsibly update it in perpetuity."