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Ahh incredible. Thank you. I guess I _did_ mis-understand after all lol.

Another question for developers who’ve started an app:

- How did you handle payments? Specifically for subscriptions.

Reading through Stripe pricing info it seems like pricing for “recurring billing” capability is ~$600 USD per month.

Any chance I misunderstood this?

Ohhh love the lifetime access. I’ve seen a few that are $10-15 a month for like 10,000 unique visits which is annoying. Thanks for the suggestion!

To all my friends that have built and launched an app I need some suggestions:

What did you use for:
- Creating your Privacy Policy?
- Creating your ToS Agreement?
- Creating that annoying cookie opt-in-out thing?

I'm building a rails app and need to implement these things and would love thoughts

Ohh thanks for this, I’m working on a Rails 8 side project now and want to add a native app for it. This guide is perfect!

What are folks using to generate a basic ToS and cookie agreements for their apps?

A screen shot of The Storygraph readalong page for Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby.

Let's do a community readalong of @sandimetz.bsky.social's Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (#POODR). We'll read a chapter per week with prompts and conversation on @thestorygraph.com.

We'll start on Jan 8th and the first chapter is due on Jan 15th.

app.thestorygraph.com/readalongs/5...

Reading was honestly my path to leaving my phone alone at night. I would scroll for too long and I felt my mental health just getting worse. So reading became the vice that replaced it lol. It works well for me but I get it's not for everyone.

So in 2024 I read a total of 26 books.

Highlights include:

- Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weird
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons

There were a bunch of other books I read and enjoyed as well. My goal for 2025 is 50 books 💪

Just finished Wind and Truth last night and now I have to wait ~9 years to find out what happens next. _Storms_.

Read all of the Stormlight Archives between September and now. Around ~6,000 pages and I have no idea what to do with myself now.

Too much is happening this week. Tomorrow is Path of Exile 2 early access AND Wind and Truth releases.

Welp. Going to no life it up I guess 😅

The definition of DRY, from "The Pragmatic Programmer"

> Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.

It has never been about whether you repeat lines of code. Never.

Good morning to everyone except the person who almost hit me in a roundabout this morning illegally crossing lanes to go to the next exit point while I was taking my kids to school.

1. The gaslighting when a leader does something wrong and you call it out. Than you “just have a spirit of rebellion.”

2. The cult behavior knowing if you question something “foundational” you threaten the loss of community, incentivizing you to avoid asking hard questions.

Elisp is extremely fun for me. I tried Go as well recently and had a blast. I’ve written a decent amount of Python but it just makes me feel smart as opposed to it actually being fun lol.

Hack the Planet!

So I updated the post jd.codes/posts/kamal-... to be correct and noted the mistake I had made. Now everything works 🚀

Ok issue has been resolved. I posted on Reddit and someone linked me to a commit lol www.reddit.com/r/rails/s/wi...

Solution was to tell Kamal that the App server IP was the internal one not the public one then leave the ssh config to proxy through the public IP. Seems obvious in retrospect lolol

For folks preaching not having “a spirit of fear” they really gave a lot to us as kids. 2/2

Man I relate to this so much. I watched Thief, Left Behind, and Tribulation in the span of a month at a small group because of a month long “end times” series at the church i grew up in. I was about 10 years old and it really messed with me for years. 1/2

We also monitor your rizz and alert you if it dips below the cringe threshold

Ok I may have misunderstood something here. So if I try to get to my prod rails console with the proxy, the SSH connection uses itself as a proxy to itself and then dies? wat? If I disable the ssh proxy in the Kamal configuration it works….

Huh? So how do I manage the accessory without the proxy?

Here’s the setup I used for deploying a #Rails 8 with #Kamal whose DB server is accessible via a private network. Truly exhilarating stuff lolol

jd.codes/posts/kamal-...

Done! jd.codes/posts/kamal-...

I got hung up on proxying through my app server into the db server. My DB server is only on an internal network and all external ports are closed down behind a fire wall. I “forgot” I set it up this way i guess and I didn’t configure Kamal to use the internal network IP for the DB server 😅

First Kamal/Rails 8 deploy down!

Today I wrote an extension to `web-mode` because of some special files at work. Everyone else is struggling with working on those files because of the lack of an lsp, no syntax highlighting, etc. I wrote 15 lines of elisp after roaming the docs and I have it all as if it's natively supported!

Part of why I still use it, despite it's oddities and inconveniences at times is because I'm not smart or patient enough to figure out how to make other editors do what I want them to do, even though they're just as customizable. With Emacs the docs and examples are just a keystroke away.

I've had several folks throughout my career express a level of intimidation about using Emacs to me. I'm not huge into the Emacs vs Vim vs VSCode thing, but one thing Emacs does better than every other app I've ever used, is having incredible documentation and help navigation natively in the editor.

I love ERB, but wow, why does commenting out a block of code have to feel like a boss battle?