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* Want to allow your users to write rich text? Easy just use ActionText * Storage and attachments? ActionStorage is easy to setup * Job queue, asynchronous work? No problem with ActiveJob

Today I learned about Rails system tests and found it so cool. With almost no configuration I can write tests that interact with my app through a headless browser.

Rails is the ultimate solo developer and hobby project tool for me

[1] https://embolt.app

We're offering online memberships, event management, and a member database packed with features. Membership management is a crowded space, but it's also a low-tech space with lots of sleeping giants not willing to iterate on their product.

It's been a really fun project so far and even more rewarding to see clubs using embolt for their daily operations. [1] https://embolt.app

Maybe the grass is always greener, but it just sounds like an incredible opportunity for anyone working on the Valorant team. You get to solve challenging, interesting problems that hundreds of millions of users will benefit from, that's just so cool to me.

A lot of small-medium sized clubs today use a pretty scrappy set of tools to get by (PayPal / Sheets / Forms) but we're going to offer a x10 better experience paired with low transaction fees.

If you want to tell me more about what you'd use embolt for feel free to shoot me an email over at grant at embolt.app!

We're offering online memberships, event management, and a member database packed with features. Membership management is a crowded space, but it's also a low-tech space with lots of sleeping giants not willing to iterate on their product.

It's been a really fun project so far and even more rewarding to see clubs using embolt for their daily operations.

[1] https://embolt.app

We're offering online memberships, event management, and a member database packed with features. Membership management is a crowded space, but it's also a low-tech space with lots of sleeping giants not willing to iterate on their product.

It's been a really fun project so far and even more rewarding to see clubs using embolt for their daily operations.

[1] https://embolt.app

We definitely offer evaluation plans & free tiers, if you want to give me a shout over at grant@embolt.app; I can help set you up with an account to try us and we’ll see if we can help!

I checked out another startup I know of (https://highlight.io) and it listed the same results.

Maybe I’m misinterpreting what this section means?

I remember wanting to use Heap's session replay only to release they want hundreds of dollars per _month_, my last bill with highlight was $2.38 I recall.

That's all to say that I'm glad Highlight is figuring out how to scale while still offering their features to the small players of the world.

[1] https://embolt.app

An equivalent example imo is the PHP ecosystem, which itself has been growing rapidly and thriving over the years -- but at the same time if you did deep enough you'll find a graveyard of long since abandoned frameworks, libraries, etc...

Last year I started a new project[1] for a member management platform and really fell in love with the new jsbundling pipeline paired with stimulus, it feels like I've rekindled my passion that led me into programming initially; the ability to hack & prototype with rails is pretty unmatched (though it's worth mentioning Django holds a special place in my heart as well)

[1] https://embolt.app

    from typing import TypedDict, Unpack, NotRequired

    class Movie(TypedDict):
        name: str
        year: NotRequired[int]

    def foo(**kwargs: Unpack[Movie]) -> None: ...

    > Given a hello world C++ snippet, submit the smallest possible compiled binary

[1]: https://www.muppetlabs.com/%7Ebreadbox/software/tiny/teensy....

I've been working on a project that creates tenants on subdomains and maintaining a 50 line long lists of hosts to test in /etc/hosts, this was a game changer for me.

Still sticking with server-side rendering though, always loved that approach to building webapps and tools like HTMX & Turbo make it much easier to integrate with complex UX interactions.

[1] https://medium.com/@csofiamsousa/hotwire-turbo-and-stimulus-...

Not every club charges dues, but those that do generally start off with a google form and a pinky promise that you'll send your dues after submitting the form.

Works for awhile but it's hard to maintain, speaking as someone who's had to do this before. embolt is my go at offering a member platform with a very low (the lowest) barrier of entry to getting up and running with paid registrations forms & an admin dashboard.

I scrapped together a form-builder-with-payments using RoR and RailsAdmin last year for my club and ended up spinning it off into a pay-per-use SaaS[1].

As it turns out, forms are a fundamental aspect of a LOT of things, and offering free use tools can change the game for clubs or organizations looking to keep their data in one place.

[1] https://embolt.app

As it turns out, even the company the initially developed the gem ended up ditching the approach due to some of the issues you outlined above.

Managing separate schemas feels like one of those nefarious decisions that make things simple _initially_ but get you into a world of hurt when you need to scale. The company is since defunct but they have an article where they discuss why they ditched the approach [2], TL;DR it's too difficult to maintain and scale

[1] https://github.com/influitive/apartment#tenants-on-different... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20201108191323/https://influitiv...

I think it’s much too early to really say the trend is sticking.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/7s85fsvxULfVNGxUVQAMtT?si=g...

I find co-pilot primarily useful as an auto-complete tool to save keystrokes when writing predictable context driven code.

Writing an enum class in one window? Co-pilot can use that context to auto complete usage in other windows. Writing a unit test suite? Co-pilot can scaffold your next test case for you with a simple tab keystroke.

Especially in the case of dynamic languages, co-pilot nicely compliments your intellisense

I never realized how _nice_ it can be to have types in a dynamic language, even if they’re just annotations.

To be fair though Ruby is a much much harder language to wrangle under types than python.

Running a club with events on meetup is great only until you need your community to contribute to the growing cost of running a successful club. At that point, you are no longer their customer — your members are a commodity and they give you just enough to stick around but not enough to function in a sustainable way. We all know communities are basically revolving doors for burnout, lack of tools and support is a big reason.

[1] https://embolt.app — public launch coming later this year!

2. Modify the parameters to hijack any relevant content

3. Reshare the smol site with your changes under the guise it’s the original link

Rock climbing is really popular here Las Vegas, but due to the sandstone being brittle it's both dangerous and "bad ethics" to climb after rain and risk breaking popular climbing routes. I wrote a tool that checks precipitation information from the rain gauge at the park's visitor center and displays it in an easy-to-understand manner.

Nowadays the site supports a couple other rain-sensitive areas, but Red Rock is primary the reason people visit this site.

I work in a large python codebase, we have almost no usage of `*kwargs` beyond proxy methods because of the nature of how they obfuscate the real interface for other developers.