Ben Pickles

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♥ Ruby, request/response, JavaScript, progressive enhancement (I don't h8 React ⚛), London-ish
Webhttps://www.benpickles.com
GitHubhttps://github.com/benpickles
🌳 Parklife inter-build caching update: first run fetching 75 pages in 12.1 seconds, second run (no changes) in 1.3 seconds - and actually I’m guessing much of that is Rails boot time
@eljojo that’s brilliant 👏🏻
Upstairs on a train in France, so good 🚅🇫🇷
@mudge have you heard of Parklife? It lets you use the Ruby frameworks and knowledge you already have, here’s the introductory post https://www.benpickles.com/articles/90-introducing-parklife
Introducing Parklife

Parklife turns any Rack app (Rails, Sinatra, Hanami, Roda, Camping) into a static HTML build ready to be hosted on GitHub Pages, Netlify, Now, S3, or any other web server. The great thing is that y...

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🌳 Parklife’s inter-build caching is slowly taking shape, it uses HTTP caching which means it’s completely framework-independent and lets you use the knowledge you already have
@lkdjiin i am loving this 👏🏻 i don't know this game but it has a great 80s feel (squares of interaction when you step over things). did you think about doing this in (dragon) ruby? (only because you are a ruby.social native)
Turning an old Rails site of mine into a static Parklife build, a small fraction of its content changes a couple of times a month so it’s pretty much static anyway. 6188 pages took 295 seconds to build which I want to improve in 2026
@henrik sent from my iPhone cringe
@tisba @kyrylo same, I don't use telebugs but i like the journey and your sensible / no fuss / thoughtful / appropriate approach
it's my birthday today, it's also international pickle day. coincidence? 🥒