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Peter Phillips

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Ruby/Rails developer by day, also occasionally by night. (but mostly just a tired dad 🫠) Richmond, VA he/him

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As cool as it is to get a shoutout from Evil Martians (big fan!) I am unfortunately a different Peter Phillips that is also a ruby developer πŸ˜†

29.12.2025 19:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I owned the One Pros for a few months before ultimately selling them. Got the best option (pros) with the hopes of using them for programming on the go. It certainly works, but I found that in nearly all situations I would just prefer using the screen on my laptop. Better image with less hassle.

13.10.2025 12:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s a fair point

26.09.2025 13:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, I don’t think I agree with your reasoning to not sign the letter. I view it as attending a digital protest. it’s about sending a message that there are a lot of us who are unhappy with DHH’s leadership. I think adding to that signal is worthwhile regardless of the fork ever actually happening

26.09.2025 13:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Joel how close are we to a point where yippee could be contributed to by others outside the core team of you and Stephen? I think you’re right we need an alternative framework. I bet a lot of people would wanna help build one!

26.09.2025 12:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you did an obituary on Charlie Kirk that was just quoting directly in context what he was most proud of saying and doing, a lot of editors would say to revise it because it would read as being mean to a dead man

12.09.2025 09:16 πŸ‘ 6304 πŸ” 922 πŸ’¬ 135 πŸ“Œ 38

Somehow worse than just saying β€œSlytherin”

06.09.2025 11:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Whoah nice!

13.08.2025 11:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Having consistent lighting at all times of day for video content is huge (I have no such place in my home haha)

01.08.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is awesome!
Is that light meant to replicate the sun shining through a window? Looks very close to me eye.

01.08.2025 17:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œ1 like”

27.07.2025 20:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I β€œbeat” Slay the Spire on my second run. Do I get some sort of nerd trophy?

11.07.2025 14:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Read this as part of a book club. It didn’t quite land for me personally, mostly because the formula for each chapter became too repetitive. But we had a great discussion around it actually so I have no regrets!

11.07.2025 14:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You could try Writebook’s source code. Probably has a bunch of stimulus controllers in it.
This seems like an odd comparison to me (sprinkles vs reactive component framework) but I’m curious to see it regardless

30.06.2025 22:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Our carbon footprints sure as shit ain’t the same

15.06.2025 18:54 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

2024: shhh don’t tell anyone but I’m using AI to help me write some code

2025: shhh don’t tell anyone but I’m not using AI to help me write any code

09.06.2025 21:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Audiobooks are great because they satisfy the part of me that wants to stay up doing things I enjoy while also putting me to sleep (which is what I actually need)

04.06.2025 01:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A chessboard with only 9 spaces and a knight placed in its center.

A chessboard with only 9 spaces and a knight placed in its center.

when it’s my turn in an argument with my wife

01.06.2025 13:25 πŸ‘ 368 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 3

My latest #rails project is probably the most fun I’ve ever had programming. And also one of the most challenging/ambitious projects I’ve ever undertaken. Will hopefully write some words somewhere on the internet about it soon-ish

13.05.2025 11:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There was a period of my life where I did a lot of surfing (mostly in the Outer Banks) and really loved it. Now as a developer, I sometimes find myself thinking about what life might look like if AI renders my job obsolete… and I mostly just hope it involves surfing more again πŸ˜†

09.05.2025 19:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The White House are such big Star Wars fans that they gave Trump a red lightsaber while trying to claim he's the good guy.

04.05.2025 15:50 πŸ‘ 932 πŸ” 148 πŸ’¬ 104 πŸ“Œ 100

This is a good strategy - hand-roll tests and observability so you can understand what your app is doing. This is a good practice always regardless of AI.

But it does result in yet another fun thing AI is taking away from us. I like writing code a lot more than testing or setting up DataDog e.g.

03.05.2025 15:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Neuroscape: A Cyberpunk TCG Boot up and dive into a high-stakes digital battleground in this next-gen, tactical cyberpunk trading card game! Printed by WJPC.

I just backed Neuroscape: A Cyberpunk TCG on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/neu...
@neuroscapetcg.bsky.social

01.05.2025 21:15 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I see Apple un-disabled Apple Intelligence for me with this latest update how kind of them

30.04.2025 21:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

congrats to canada but also it seems a little unfair that you guys won’t ever elect an evil fascist demagogue to shock US into voting for a liberal

29.04.2025 02:23 πŸ‘ 1200 πŸ” 136 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 7

lol true!

23.04.2025 10:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’‘ I feel like having a local (ie. completely offline) LLM would be insanely valuable in basically any survival/doomsday situation. Near-instantaneous advice for any predicament you could find yourself in.

22.04.2025 23:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Co-sign!

21.04.2025 16:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I wish editors were more integrated with this. My preference would be

private

def foo

But it would be cool if everything below the "private line" could be colorized differently somehow. Maybe a different background or something.

18.04.2025 12:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
More typing with less typing, an introduction to Literal An introduction to the Literal Ruby gem.

New blog post: More typing with less typing

09.04.2025 13:09 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0