Brad Gessler
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Brad Gessler
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I build stuff people want with Ruby—like BeautifulRuby.com, Terminalwire.com, TinyZap.com, Thingybase.com, LegibleNews.com, Sitepress.cc, and more.

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Fonts are the most annoying part of setting up server-side OG rendering.
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
It's two things: "transparency theater" and "flooding the zone"

Stuff that's actually transparent is articulated plainly and concisely in a manner that doesn't overwhelm the reader.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I don't know why people are surprised or angry about this.

While I find the "it's a gift" answer kinda dubious, there's nothing stopping people from forking Hotwire into a more reliable and supported frontend.

The gift is being able to work the MIT licensed work that fixes all the issues.
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Esp if they throw something like Swift WebKit into the mix

developer.apple.com/documentatio...
WebKit for SwiftUI | Apple Developer Documentation
Integrate web content into your SwiftUI apps with new standard views you connect to webpages.
developer.apple.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Did the label say how much chicken was in it?
October 17, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I'm going to hook an LLM up to a wildcard route just to deal with your naming schemes. It will cost met $1000/day to run, but I'll get one of those sweet "Trillion token" awards from OpenAI.
October 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
😂 Curse you Drapper!
October 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I haven't tried `falcon-rails`, so just `falcon`.
October 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM