Proposed page meta approach for SacMusic

A week ago, the question of how to spin up Open Graph images for static pages in SacMusic sent me into a deep dive rethinking how all web application frameworks with a front-end component work. I have an idea for a JS framework to flush these ideas out so that I can share them. But …

Evelate: a back-burner project

I've had a major revelation lately: pages are a superset of routes. This came after posting how I've never had a solid approach to dealing with page meta in my projects, then posting about most frameworks' lack of pages as a first-class entity. I've also been considering what an ideal web framework might look like. …

The boldest revelation I’ve had as a developer

After building websites and web applications for over six years, this is the boldest revelation I've ever had: Pages are a superset of routes.

Rails inline routes

This is just a note for me. https://www.akshaykhot.com/rails-inline-routes/

SacMusic templates are finally linted

I'm sick and slept for a lot of the day, but during my waking hours I wanted some low stress coding. For me, that usually means doing anything but features. Today, I got my ERB templates linted using Shopify's ERB Lint package. It's amazing how much time you can spend coding without delivering anything meaningful …

AWS

AWS is a constant backdrop in our life. This blog, hosted on WordPress.com at the time of writing, may very well be hosted on AWS. I feel like as programmers we've perhaps delegated too much to AWS. Are IAM policies really simpler than firewalls? Is the DynamoDB convenience really worth the lock-in of a proprietary …

SacMusic’s code still sucks

It's been over a year since I create the Rails iteration of SacMusic and the code still sucks not matter how many tests I throw at it or how much clean up I do. That's not to say I haven't been busy though: Active Storage now runs in production with Digital Ocean spaces Variations are …