Ben Sheldon (he/him)

@bensheldon@ruby.social
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I help small teams do big things and help big teams have big impact. And I build GoodJob, Day of the Shirt, Panlexicon, and Brompt too.
Bloghttps://island94.org

I wrote about why you might consider using Thruster on Heroku:

https://island94.org/2025/07/consider-thruster-with-puma-on-heroku

Consider Thruster with Puma on Heroku | Island94.org

Anyone in SF have a 3d printer? I need some clips for my crisper.

https://www.printables.com/model/418756-humidity-control-lid-tab-for-fisher-and-paykel-ref

Humidity control lid tab for Fisher and Paykel refrigerator, model E522B by Anghelos | Download free STL model | Printables.com

A replacement tab for Fisher & Paykel fridge's humidity control lid. | Download free 3D printable STL models

Printables.com

Frontend/Browser/JS question: is there a contemporary 2025 way of triggering a "hey, are you sure you want to close this tab with its form inputs?" confirmation?

... that isn't beforeunload?

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

It’s not easy being king …
I don't mean to brag you guys but loads of companies really care about my privacy
TIL it's really simple to make iteratable jobs with Active Job (though maybe GoodJob only) by mutating the arguments and retrying the job. A little writeup: https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job/discussions/1627
Simple iterable jobs: modify the arguments and retry · bensheldon good_job · Discussion #1627

I just wanted to share this because I wasn't quite sure if it would work, but it does. My goal: to trigger a phone call 5 times at 15 minute intervals. I could do this with a batch but found that i...

GitHub
✅ Accepted 🙌
Five years later, here's a presentation I once gave about assisting welfare applications during the first month of COVID-19 (mostly about websites falling over and how my team helped): https://island94.org/2025/03/flattening-the-curve-for-the-safety-net
Flattening the curve for the safety net, five years later | Island94.org

dude 18f got fired fuck