A Rails workflow tip I’ve been getting a lot of mileage out of lately is

bin/rails c --sandbox

This starts a rails console wrapped in a transaction so that when you exit the session the database hasn’t been polluted by your tomfoolery.

it’s the little things

#ruby #rails

A non-obvious thing I've learned about Wasm in browsers is that a hypothetical future DOM API interop feature might not be built on top of JS interop.

DOM APIs are defined in WebIDL, which has a lot of type information. For example, a WebIDL `dictionary` has a fixed set of fields. In source languages which have `struct` types, a `dictionary` might be best passed as a `struct`, rather than going through the JS representation of a `dictionary`.

`externref`, custom descriptors, js-string-builtins, etc. can help code that's aware it's talking to JS, but won't necessarily be the best tools for code that wants to talk to browsers.

Here’s an article from the industry news site about Federal funding for Public Media. TLDR: Corporation for Public Broadcasting to the Feds: You’re not the boss of me.

https://current.org/2025/05/in-executive-order-trump-demands-cpb-stop-funding-pbs-npr/

#USFederalFunding #PBS #NPR #CPB

I needed to read this today. My New Years revolution is to live life vibrantly, like a benevolent alien.

I think it might help. 🧡