Verify Recurring Job Schedules With a Spec My Ruby on Rails app Monolithium uses Solid Queue for background jobs but also has some recurring jobs. When I migrated to Solid Queue I typoed the schedule strings for these recurring jobs and then h...

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Week in Review: Week 9, 2026 I ended up taking Monday off this week because I hurt my back and needed to work on making it feel better. What I would like to tell you is that I hurt it because I was doing something awesome. Sky-di...

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Show Timestamps in Local Zone My Ruby on Rails application Monolithium stores times in UTC and thus far I've been content to show them without considering timezone. As an example, the Boops Page will show the created_at timestamp ...

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Week in Review: Week 8, 2026 This was a short week for me with Monday being a holiday. Not much to report other than I did my best swim this week - 850 meters!

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Upgrading to Ruby 4.0 Ruby 4.0 was released a couple months ago on Christmas and I had been meaning to upgrade for a while. I noticed that version 4.0.1 came out too so that's always a good sign that things are stable and ...

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I guess it was only 1,710 words @pepopowitz.bsky.social so you might not even need Claude to summarize!!

Thanks I got the boop!! 🤩

Making Time for Boops A couple months back, just before the Christmas holiday break, I received a TIME smart clock as a gift from Shopify. They gave everybody the choice between a few different items from merchants on the ...

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Nice! I’m mostly there with moving off Google services but damn Apple Maps just is not as good as Google Maps. Also it is virtually impossible to live a life without some YouTube coming across your desk.

Week in Review: Week 6, 2026 There were parent/teacher conferences this week so the boy was off school Thursday and Friday. He's 10 so not too bad but I just found it hard to focus. We went to the gym on Friday and hit the pool w...

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Oh totally Ant is awesome. Don’t tell anybody but I am kind of becoming a Wolves fan! It helps that they have been in the playoffs in recent years.

Week in Review: Week 4, 2026 This was a weird week on many levels. Monday was a holiday but then people were talking about a general strike for Friday. No work, no school, no shopping. I wasn't sure what I would do but then at th...

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Week in Review: Week 3, 2026 This was another hard week to be living in Minnesota. Don't listen to what the White House is telling you - this ICE activity has nothing to do with fraud and everything to do with terrorizing a commu...

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Oh man I love those lil gears you added

This is a big boy - good luck, have fun!!

Building Analytics Reports in Rails Using Apache Logs Over on Evaluating Apache Access Log Data I dove deep on the data available to me from my many years of hoarding Apache access log data. By working with the logs in this way I learned what data points...

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Configure Spec Task Without Verbose Output My Ruby projects use the default Rake task to run linting and the test suite plus anything else that might gate the merging of a PR. These days that is Standard Ruby and good old RSpec but I sometimes...

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Week in Review: Week 2, 2026 The first week back to work after a couple weeks off is brutal. Everyone in my house was tired and crabby. Luckily I found the time for a few naps - that really helped. And really by the end of the we...

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I think it’s about the oil- America loves oil so much!!

Add to Warm Fuzzies list!

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My main work iTerm window is one pane with Claude working hard and another with Glow showing me the markdown planning files we are collaborating on. I miss you vim but this is the new world we have brought upon ourselves.

LGTM

Week in Review: Week 1, 2026 This week was the second of my 2 weeks off for the holidays. I can't believe how fast it went and how few things I actually crossed off my list of things to do! Not that I didn't accomplish a lot - it...

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Fixing Issues in CRUD Pages With JSON Fields I have a section of my Rails app that is an admin interface to perform CRUD actions on various models. They are fairly standard pages and honestly don't get a ton of use. Recently I was poking around ...

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This is an underrated aspect of today’s LEGO sets. The engineering blows my mind basically every set I build!

Week in Review: Week 50, 2025 I didn't have a ton of time to work on personal projects this week but I did dive back into my Rails app and analytics reporting. I reviewed the work I had done like a month ago and then started over....

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OP and Toronto I mean...

Oh shit I just looked it up and they are only like a couple hours drive apart!! Damn missed opportunity Jon!! 😱

Week in Review: Week 49, 2025 It's been a while since my last review post just because life has been so busy. There was a work trip in there to Toronto plus then a trip to Arizona for the Thanksgiving holiday. Getting caught up wi...

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