2025–W07 #
Using Rails again after a break (from all of Ruby, too, I guess). I still like Go but it's hard to ignore how much is done for you with Rails that you have to piece together yourself with other frameworks and especially when a language is much less opinionated (i.e. choose your own templating/routing/persistence).
I tried Bullet Train (probably a no) and Avo (probably a maybe, but not to expose to customers).
TailwindCSS + DaisyUI is a maybe.
I might always be chasing the thrill of throwing together webapps in Flask+Bootstrap 3 back around ~2014 -- the combination of moving fast and looking good (relative to the apps of the day) was great.
Lots of other random stuff: bought a projector at a thrift shop and it's fully working. It's old -- and it's 800x600, but for video or maybe slides with large fonts, it's not bad. And it was less than $14!
House things: - Replaced every wall register. - I could be happier with the outcome- lots of fettling and force required to make everything work. - Draught excluders on the doors. - If you're picking up a theme it is: our house is too cold. - It seems worse this Winter (I've been here nearly 5 years) -- either it's an especially rough one or we've made things worse through some change that we've made. - Once again having a thermal camera pays off. - Picked up filler to repair holes around one of the basement windows. Come Springtime (when I can remove the windows reasonably) I'll make more substantial improvements.
"Farewell to Harms" (no, I have not read the Hemmingway book — I was simply amused at my pun). I made an effort with the typography and design of my tilde website. I've become good at removing things from my life lately and thought it would be a neat "single-serve" website. I've a list to write up, but was head-of-line blocked by not having the website ready. Well; no excuse now.
At least I didn't build a static-site-generator -- the whole thing is hand hewn HTML written straight into the text editor, as is fit and proper.