Development
Adding live blog URL links to the post dashboard
Making dashboard titles link to the live posts: a configurable path prefix, a pub_date gate against broken links, and a spec column I scrapped.
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Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Adding Pexels image search to my blog manager
In-page Pexels search with Turbo Frames, the auth header quirk that 401s Bearer tokens, and a singleton settings model for the API key.
Development
Building Medium cross-posting for blog-manager
A push-to-Medium button on a deprecated-but-working API: injectable Net::HTTP, on-demand markdown rendering, and a state machine split between job and service.
Development
Live updates from background jobs in Rails 8 with Turbo Streams
Wiring Turbo Streams so scan jobs update the page as they run, and the cable.yml async adapter gotcha that swallowed every broadcast from the worker.
Development
Making blog scans async with Solid Queue (and a Rails gotcha)
Moving the GitHub scan to a background job after it outgrew the proxy timeout, and the rescue_from LIFO ordering gotcha that broke my discard path.
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