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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 22d

Friends, tickets for the San Francisco Ruby conference are on sale and available. Grab yours, and I’ll see you with 600 Ruby friends and dozens of Ruby startups to pave the bright future for Ruby and Rails together on November 19-21!
sfruby.com

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wow. Very cool.

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’ll see you at Euruko!

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Aug 28

I've been working on a Hotwire Native app called Calendar Vision and it's finally made it to the app stores! The app extracts events from photos and emails then adds them to your calendar. You can read more about it in this post and find the app store links there mikedalton.co/2025/08/27/c...

Calendar Vision 1.0 — Mike Dalton

Earlier this week I released my new Hotwire Native app, Calendar Vision, to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Calendar Vision extracts and creates e...

mikedalton.co

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Mar 31

Does anyone do Ruby on Rails development on an iPad? It would be nice to travel only with an iPad.

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Feb 25

Search Engine is like the two you mentioned. It’s by one of the guys who did Reply All.
Planet Money is another NPR show that I like that focuses on random economic issues.

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Feb 3

I asked but no one knew of any

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Jan 29

Yep, I’ll ask them

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Jan 29

I’m not in that area but my company is based there. Most of my company is remote though but there might be some rails devs there. If something gets set up I can post about it in my company’s slack.

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Jan 15

Have I ever known you without facial hair?

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Jan 15

Wow. I don’t recognize you in that photo at all lol

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Jan 7

And on a related note, has anyone ever clicked "Bookmark All Tabs..." on purpose? If so, why?

Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Jan 7

Whoever created the "Reopen Closed Tab" button deserves the Turing award. Seriously, what an amazing button.

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Dec 15

Replace a word in a movie title with 'butthole'

Butthole and Butthead Do America

Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net · Dec 15

Replace a word in a movie title with 'butthole'

Butthole at Tiffany’s

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · Dec 15

Replace a word in a movie title with 'butthole'

The Buttholes of Madison County

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Dec 10

This sort of works but it updates all the columns on the model and I only need to update a single column. upsert_all seems to require every column.

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Dec 10

What's the best way to do the following in a single trip to the database in a Rails app? Multiple rows, single column, different values for each row.

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Nov 26

I usually have Google Calendar tasks for things I need to do but it’s not great. I had a similar idea in the past when I was buying my home. I figured there was a whole bunch of tasks that I should have been doing but didn’t know it was something homeowners need to do.

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Nov 22

Oh nice. Maybe I’ll go. What do you usually do there?

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Nov 21

I would agree with this. And relatedly, try to keep uses of params close by the controller. I want to be able to look at a controller and easily figure out the input and output.

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Nov 21

Logging that’s really annoying in development

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Nov 21

Cursor. I think RubyMine is a better editor but the AI features in Cursor are too good not to use it.

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Nov 19

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...

Counting crows august and everything after album cover

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Nov 10

Nice. I’ll have to check out the gem.

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Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social · Nov 10

I had a similar problem with a site I’m building and I’m surprised at how effective a hidden text input is. Bots always fill it in. Is that how this gem works?

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