Adam Fortuna

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Hey hey! I'm a full-stack product developer in Salt Lake City, UT. I love enlivening experiences, visualizing data, and making playful websites.

🧑‍💻 Formerly Course Director @ Code School.
📚 Currently founder @ https://hardcover.app

✏️ I write about personal growth, building websites (#ruby #nextjs #rubyonrails), #minimalism, #mindulness, #FIRE, recovering from an ACL tear, and awkwardly posting on TikTok (😂).

Personal Sitehttps://adamfortuna.com
Minafihttps://minafi.com
Hardcoverhttps://hardcover.app
Line of Thoughthttps://lineofthought.com
Adam FortunaNov 10, 2024

I’ve been looking forward to Heretic for months and it didn’t disappoint.

A horror movie about LDS missionaries staring Hugh Grant?

What I don’t expect were in depth theological discussions.

https://boxd.it/7LW5Sx

A ★★★★½ review of Heretic (2024)

Seeing this in SLC, the biggest laugh was when one of the missionaries said she was from Ogden. Now I want to play Monopoly.

Adam FortunaNov 9, 2024

Just finished & enjoyed Jade War (#2 in the Green Bone Saga). 💙📚

This series reminds me of Avatar: The Legend of Korra meets The Poppy War. It's set in a world undergoing an industrial and economic revolution due to magical jade.

Let's see how the series resolves!

https://hardcover.app/books/jade-war/reviews/@adam?referrer_id=1

Adam's review of Jade War by Fonda Lee

Adam rated this book 4⭐. Jade War by Fonda Lee. #2 of 3 in The Green Bone Saga. 4.38⭐. 186 ratings. 31 reviews. 609 pages. In Jade War, the sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City, the ...

Adam FortunaNov 7, 2024

I am giving BlueSky a try after seeing more programmers trying it out.

I'm unsure where I'll stay, but I enjoy exploring it. With my break from Reddit/TikTok, I need something to fill the time. 😂

If you're on Blue Sky, let's be friends:
https://bsky.app/profile/adamfortuna.com

Adam Fortuna (@adamfortuna.com)

Full-stack product developer (Rails & React atm) in Salt Lake City, UT. I love enlivening experiences, visualizing data, and making playful websites. 📚 Founder @ https://hardcover.app ✍️ Blogger @ https://adamfortuna.com Mastodon: @[email protected]

Bluesky Social
Adam FortunaNov 6, 2024

New blog post: My Second Term Plan

https://adamfortuna.com/my-second-term-plan

#blog #blogging #goals #habits

My Second Term Plan

What I'm shifting my attention to over the next 4 years.

Adam FortunaNov 6, 2024
The time leading up to the 2016 election, and pretty much his entire first term were a slow boil to see how much news and information I could take in. I'm following Kamala's advice and not going back to that.
Adam FortunaOct 16, 2024
Franke JamesOct 14, 2024

Welcome 📚 news! Publishing expert Jane Friedman said in her Electric Speed Newsletter, "I’ve seen many #book review... apps come and go, and this one may fade over time like just the others. But it’s worth checking out anyway: #Hardcover, available on the web and as an iPhone or Android app. The people behind it want to create an alternative to Amazon’s #Goodreads." 👏 👏 👏

https://hardcover.app/blog/goodreads-vs-hardcover #writers #authors

Goodreads vs. Hardcover: Which is Right for You? - Hardcover

A feature by feature comparison of Hardcover and Goodreads with screenshots.

Adam FortunaOct 8, 2024
Always a bit funny when I say "I'll give it one more try in Cursor before I have to download this library and investigate why I'm getting a specific error" - then it works. 😅
Adam FortunaOct 6, 2024

For the Hardcover migration from Next.js to Rails, one thing I'm removing is any use of Apollo Fragment caching to determine UI state.

Previously for things like a Like Button, or your Ownership for an Edition, we'd prime the Apollo cache and then load your state from that.

With the new setup, we're just loading that data into Redux (what you've liked, what you own), and then the initial render can use it.

So far it's a lot cleaner - and no GraphQL to worry about.

Adam FortunaOct 5, 2024
New updates on the Hardcover Book Page are looking good - and with nice caching for network activity.
Adam FortunaOct 5, 2024

Next.js is the first non-MVC framework I've used since 2006, when I moved from spaghetti PHP code to Fusebox, an MVC ColdFusion framework.

Having a single place for everything is so refreshing. The logical load from solving problems AND deciding on an architecture for every problem makes for slower development.

Also, caching in a non-MVC framework is 🤯, but not in a good way.

All this to say, I'm enjoying the Rails + Inertia.js + React migration. 😂