Aside from the eclipse hype, one thing that is often missing from both people's accounts and pictures is that during totality, you're able to see solar flares _with the naked eye_ if you pay attention. It made me realize how huge these things are.

Also, I used ruby to automate the picture-taking and bracketing during totality, so I could enjoy it with family instead of looking at a screen. Run `ruby photo.rb` and pray!

I was helping my family book a visa appointment to visit France, which is now done through a private 3rd party company.

As part of the process, they offered to upgrade to a "Premium waiting room", to speed up your waiting time and get more comfortable chairs. For a GOVERNMENT SERVICE.

This could have easily been a satire of late-stage capitalism if it wasn't, you know, real.

I'm speaking at @helvetic_ruby! 🇨🇭

I will talk about how to make the most of your logs so you can ask them better questions 💬 See you there!

I'm speaking at @railsconf this year!

I've been wanting to do this for a while and this year the stars finally aligned, I'm excited!

Oh and I also almost accidentally booked a hotel in Canada..

Today's Rails/Postgres trick: access your postgres stats directly from your app.

You can use this if you have long transactions and need to make sure all new transactions see an updated value of some record (e.g. a feature flag when you're performing a data migration)