Stephen Margheim

Getting the walls up was only half the battle. Next major squirmish was figuring out why the fans wouldn’t run consistently. After some exploring and experimenting, learned there was a timer controller that was behaving oddly. Put my amateur electrician hat on and removed it.

It isn’t done and it isn’t perfect, but it is mine and it does work.

Here it is with the tape off and the glue set. Next up base boards (as seen on the ground) and interior.

I don’t care about looks. This is just for the wall with the desk; wont be visible on camera. And I’m sure they will do better than the drywall I have now.

Yeah, I’m covering the front wall, front sides, and ceiling with pyramid sound foam

Great afternoon of progress! The wood acoustic panels are now up on the exterior. Glue on the corner is setting. Doing a bit of door framing then base board and sound foam on the interior. Onward and upward!

I’m not looking for perfect. It just needs to be better than my 100sm open floor plan main room that it is in the corner of

Fear? Oh no

Insulated! Tomorrow we put the exterior acoustic wood panels up. Then interior finishing touches. It is coming together!!

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Fans and light installed!

Me too! And super easy to install. Came framed and ready to go from Amazon

Do it! I’ll post about how well the sound insulation techniques work for me, but here is your dose of encouragement: just do it.

Door is installed! Wiring up the inflow and outflow fans now, then insulation and paneling. Final finishing touches at the end. Slow and steady

Will post more pics as we progress, but mounting a thin diffusion light, an outflow fan, and an inflow fan in the short wall.

Half at thru day two and getting the inner dry wall hung. A bit of wiring, insulation, then the outer panels will finish the walls. Also gotta frame the door. Great progress tho!

Day one: frame is up. It is a small little studio, but it will be mine. Made with my (and my Dad’s) own hands. Onto day two!

This corner is now cleared out and we begin framing the outer walls tomorrow. What was a little work corner yesterday will be a sound insulated tiny studio later this week

As @aaronfrancis.com says, you can just build things. The “build a small studio in the corner of the apartment” project begins now.

For example, I can have CSS generically bind an anchor and its anchored element for a [commandfor] anchor. Semantic HTML is all that's needed, no duplicative `anchor-name` (I know, I know implicit anchors are coming too, but this is just a good example).

We should all probably be using double-dashed idents for our HTML `id`s. Once the advanced `attr()` function is baseline across browsers, this will allow us to dynamically use our `id`s as custom idents in CSS.

Simple fact: HTML is the best component framework out there. It is composable, universal, and grows more featureful by the quarter.

@briancasel.com I’d love some thoughts on using Agent OS with Zed Agents

Maintain AR connection pools in the background by matthewd · Pull Request #54175 · rails/rails Recruit the Reaper to do more work in keeping the connection pool healthy: retiring connections that have been idle1 for too long, or that have been open beyond a configured total maximum age crea...

This PR will add `min_connections` as a db configuration option. SQLite apps with bursts of heavy write traffic can remove the bottleneck of writes saturating the connection pool and holding back reads, since at the db level reads can always occur.

github.com/rails/rails...

After various delays across various modes of transport I have finally made it to my room for #RailsConf2025. Now for a few hours of sleep 😴

At the gate to board my trans-Atlantic flight from Berlin to Philly for #RailsConf2025

I would write 3 tests:
* when A is true and B false
* when A is false and B is true
* when A is false and B false

I would ignore A and B both true

In the app I’m building, I’m currently just using fixed hierarchical paths

I've been using a new text-only affordance for actions (links and buttons):

"Verb →" means a navigation
"Verb ↓" means downloading content
"← Back" means navigating to previous page
"Verb ↑" means opening a dialog
"Verb ✓" means submit form

I love it and users love it!

The weather this time of year in Philly generally changes a lot day to day so take the forecast for #RailsConf with a grain of salt. Here's my suggestions for anyone traveling from outside the east coast: