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I'm working on an interesting refactor in Ruby/Rails involving a "compiled configuration" object, which an object that gets...

I'm working on an interesting refactor in Ruby/Rails involving a "compiled configuration" object, which an object that gets recomputed whenever anything changes within a model's configuration tree (i.e. a number of related models / tables used for configuring this singular object). The goal is to use this object for 1. validating that no two configurations/plugins added to the object are in conflict (based on a well-defined set of hooks/callbacks) and 2. caching this object to avoid all the DB lookups involved in fully recomputing this object on every request.

Is there a name for this pattern? Has anyone implemented something like this at work? I'd imagine something like this pattern exists for, say, AWS IAM permissions+policies+roles calculation/caching.

the old indiana jones's... kinda suck?

the old indiana jones's... kinda suck?

when fonts collide

when fonts collide

Progress: integrated YappLabs' ember-nav-stack with FPR's ember-navigator for stack-based navigation (with slow/cancelable drag...

Progress: integrated YappLabs' ember-nav-stack with FPR's ember-navigator for stack-based navigation (with slow/cancelable drag transitions -- something that's often difficult/impossible with classic / desktop-centric routing solutions)

Working on an Ember port of KonstaUI (Tailwind-based mobile component library). If folk are interested I'll put in the effort to...

Working on an Ember port of
KonstaUI
(Tailwind-based mobile component library). If folk are interested I'll put in the effort to addonize and publish.

Ember folk: I assume I should be using native promises more and more, but as someone who's used to using the afterRender run loop queue...

Ember folk: I assume I should be using native promises more and more, but as someone who's used to using the afterRender run loop queue for running logic after components have finished rendering to DOM (but likely before browser has started doing layout / paint), is there a perf implication to moving that logic to the browser's microtask queue? Does using native promises mean I'll start getting render flashes?

Anyone in the web world have opinions on SwiftUI components? I maintain a mostly-mobile app and I find some of these layout components...

Anyone in the web world have opinions on SwiftUI components? I maintain a mostly-mobile app and I find some of these layout components appealing, e.g. using LayeredStack (e.g. ZStack) when you want to have overlapping elements (e.g. text over a bg image), so a Spacer component to take the remaining space of a (flex?) parent container.

All of these have CSS solutions but perhaps building atop these components is easier to keep in the brain than dipping into your 2000 word Tailwind vocabulary?

I've been using Anki flashcards for about half a year now as a spaced repetition memorization app. I have about 800 notes covering...

I've been using Anki flashcards for about half a year now as a spaced repetition memorization app. I have about 800 notes covering anything from tech, politics, and personal/social stuff I want to remember and keep reasonably fresh in my brain.

It works great for what it is, but having successfully maintained a habit of doing a daily Anki review for 6 months, I see the shortcomings of this approach: I can correctly "answer" the flashcards, but my understanding of underlying content and network of ideas is quite shallow. I'd hoped that by keeping the peripheral flashcard-able ideas fresh in my brain that that would strengthen the underlying conceptual bonds, but unfortunately that isn't the case. (And frankly, the fact that I could keep this habit so easily makes me feel like maybe it was a lazy half-ass approach to feeling like I was deeply learning.)

So it's on to the next thing. Perhaps variant of the Feynman method?

gonna post like it's 2012 and I'm bout to use Photoshop to House of Cards my way onto the Ember core team

gonna post like it's 2012 and I'm bout to use Photoshop to House of Cards my way onto the Ember core team

my neck fucking HURTS

my neck fucking HURTS