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jasondjk

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jasondjk··on How we configured OpenTelemetry logs in Rails
I’d contend having user behaviour logged directly into your monolithic app db using the ahoy gem instead of some external grafana/etc system is much more powerful because then you can point an agent at a copy of your database and it can wire together all of your operational and business metrics at the same time without having to try and say, connect a user profile between grafana/salesforce/hubspot/intercom etc. eg. “Claude, tell me which customers activate and convert and which churn and why and make a plan to optimise the funnel”. Hooking that up has never been easier https://insidertrades.directory/built-with-rails/ahoy-blazer... ie. build, don’t buy in the age of AI
jasondjk··on Revisiting the original Roomba and its simple architecture
It’s not exactly easy but it is do-able if you have a compliant vacuum, order a pcb adapter and can boot a laptop into a recent Debian os to flash the firmware. Be careful what you say on the telegram group (I was banned for trying to buy a pcb instead of solder one).
jasondjk··on Django 6
Rails now provides an authentication generator that creates a super terse but fully customisable auth capability. Here’s an example: https://insidertrades.directory/built-with-rails/google-sign...
jasondjk··on Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering
I recorded a bunch of videos like this for Ruby on Rails. This one is generically relevant about operating Claude hands free with —dangerously-skip-permissions and importantly sandboxing it in a separate user account for security: https://insidertrades.directory/built-with-rails/claude-code...
jasondjk··on GitHub Copilot is now available for free
This looks really interesting, cursor has been way better than copilot for me but supermaven looks great. I went down the rabbit hole with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLQuBSuzu2w&t=661s

Your setup sounds interesting. What sort of API key do you use?