Ben Sheldon

#civictech is about benefiting the public good - not government efficiency

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@derekeder.com and I write for @civictechallies.bsky.social on what civic tech volunteer groups can do to reduce harm brought on by the new administrations policies (thread!)

I finished it a few weeks ago. Really good! I'm almost done with Martha Well's entire catalog. So good.

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Feature request: Ability to target multiple frames · Issue #475 · hotwired/turbo Currently Turbo frames is amazing at handling HTML updates back to the UI when specifying a single frame target to update on the page. In a lot of cases this is all you need however in more complex...

Unfortunately not: github.com/hotwired/tur...

Replace two different turbo-frame from one response · Issue #56 · hotwired/turbo Situation: There is a profile form where the user can update his own name. There is, in the same page, a navigation bar where the username is shown. When the user submit the profile form, the respo...

Ooh ooh. Maybe I'll go subscribe 😄

I've been looking for someone else doing a good job of this: github.com/hotwired/tur...

If people leaving USDS are looking to stay in #civictech, the Alliance of Civic Technologisits (@civictechallies.bsky.social) is recruiting for both our current member organizations and for starting NEW civic technology volunteer organizations.

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Oooh! Are you using streams to do the Refresh All?

GitHub Next | Copilot Workspace GitHub Next Project: A Copilot-native dev environment, designed for everyday tasks.

Totally. Cursor has a thing called "cursorfile" that is the system prompt for a project. Unfortunately it can't reference files (there was an earlier feature that could but it disappeared in a recent update)

Copilot Workspace is web only: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-workspace

I'm rereading "Radical Focus" to sharpen up my dislike of how OKRs are practiced.

They're same same. I just tried Windsurf again this past weekend and couldn't really tell the difference.

Copilot Workspaces (disclosure: I work at GitHub) is kinda different. It exposes the chain-of-thought steps as editable UI, rather than a chat prompt. More precise maybe, but takes more time.

😄 That's Cursor.ai.

A screenshot of an application in which it has been typed "Update document_needs_spec.rb to match the behavior of document_needs.rb"

I guess this is how we code now 🫠

tbh I'm not unhappy with the result, just disappointed in myself.

GitHub is now running Ruby 3.4.1

I wrote some high level thoughts to help make sense of the current reality of AI: https://island94.org/2025/1/how-im-thinking-about-ai-llms

I wrote about moving my static site blog from Jekyll to Parklife+Rails: https://island94.org/2025/1/living-parklife-with-rails-coming-from-jekyll

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RubyConf 2024 talks on RubyVideo.dev

RubyConf 2024 talks are live on @rubyvideo.dev! 🥳

See you at the rubocop riot 😆

Prepending a + to the string literal also works:

+"the string"

I think it was introduced in Ruby 2.3, so you might see 8+ year old discussions saying "it's not backwards compatible" which can probably (hopefully!) be disregarded in practice today.

I guess one thing, still on my todo, is that I should put it in /tmp instead of [project]/tmp so I don't have to do the weird rename of bin/rails (because the rails installer refuses to install into a subdirectory below a bin/rails file)

lol. That test setup was definitely in the category of "I guess this will work until someone tells me there's a better way" 🤷

Same same 😊

shouldve titled the piece "zones of ethical interest"

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