kurtfunai

You make a good point. I just removed GA from my blog.

If that's working for you - fantastic. It seems like the way that you're looking to build products is focused on development ease & minimizing JS usage. We also build products that way at my company, and it allows us to build & iterate quickly with few developers.

If you'd like to implement some modern front-end technologies that lend themselves to this style, you could look to Vue.js (https://vuejs.org/) paired with a technology like Turbolinks or Turbograft (which allows for partial page refreshment).

It allows you to build something that feels more dynamic but still is based in Rails/ERB templates.

These look fantastic! I will definitely be using this library in the future.

I completely agree with this. It has bothered me for a long time that I cannot sort my own projects by what I think is important.

When asked if I prefer physical or digital books, I always want to say that I prefer paper. The truth is, while I switch back and forth pretty regularly, I find paper is pretty annoying.

I'm reading The Wheel of Time series right now, entirely on paperback, and I'm constantly aware of how it is physically more annoying to read. I have to constantly switch positions depending on lighting, or which side of the page I am on.

While reading on my kindle, I get to sit still in a comfortable position and not worry about flopping around to catch the light differently on a each side of the book.

Thanks for the post - I regularly use a lot of these, and I'm a big fan of ng-bind attribute over the <div>{{ thing }}</div> approach.

Things that really caught my eye:

- ng-list: sounds very useful for user forms, tagging, etc

- ng-switch: I dont know how many times I've used ng-show to replicate this functionality. Thank you!

Seems like a cool concept for owners that leave their dog at home during the day. Could finally figure out what those rascals are up to.

Or if an uncommon spike of activity happens in the middle of the day, you may want to check in at home.

You're right, though I don't share passwords between services, I'm curious just the same.

This is one of those cases where I completely forgot that I had an account, and now it has been compromised. I'm scratching my head wondering what information/password I had associated with it.

Makes a case for actively destroying accounts on services that you're no longer planning on using.

This looks great, I'm definitely going to give it a try. Thank you!

I've got a Github sticker on my laptop. It's sort of a "Hey, I'm a developer" flag, maybe it'll lead to some good conversation one day.

I agree, my initial thoughts were that it reminded me of G+.

I personally love the G+ feed, the issue was lack of content to fill it. I was starting to get pretty tired of looking at the same old cluttered feed on facebook. I always felt that the feed column was surprisingly thin, and that the left column took up a lot of real estate for something I interacted with so rarely.

I think this will be a refreshing change for Facebook.

I think the idea of DNA portraits are pretty cool. Could make for a cute (albeit pricey) family portrait.

Is this service affiliated with DNA11? This service seems very similar, right down to sizes, pricing, and colour options.

They also provide DNA canvas art. ( https://www.dna11.com )

Also regarding the header... that background image is just fantastic. Is there a wallpaper version?

The isolation can definitely get to you. I've been working remotely for just over a year and a month now. I found it was becoming really difficult around the 6 month mark.

I was rarely leaving my apartment and working long hours because it was really difficult to "turn off", especially when I never really left the office. I fixed this by getting a dog, and honestly it was one of the best choices I've made. Working remotely, you're in a unique position to provide a great lifestyle for a pet. My dog gets a couple walks a day, and is rarely home alone.

Getting out of the house for one or two hours a day to get some sunshine and take a break is extremely healthy. Plus, there is a local dog park near by that is always filled with people.

Dog aside, it seems that you had much less conversation with other employees than I've got at my job. There is an unwritten rule to leave Skype on, just to hear about updates with the company. Just being able to easily reach out and send someone a message (not through email, basecamp, etc) is important to me.

This works, thank you!

Site took a long time to load, but when it did, I gladly signed up. Got my first email already.

Really looking forward to this, thanks.

* Edit, It appears that the video "Objectified" (Or at least the preview) is not available to rent from YouTube in Canada. "The uploader has not made this video available in your country." :(

I don't have time to try renting it right now, but I'll test it this weekend. Perhaps only the trailer is unavailable. Can anyone test/confirm?

I'm in a similar boat. I've just began with Rails in the last six months, and I've really been enjoying it. These vulnerabilities are unnerving but I am comforted by the visibility of the announcements. The community seems to get the message out very quickly when an exploit is found/patched. My entire Twitter feed is filled with Rails developers telling others to upgrade immediately, and HN has multiple new posts about it.

If I deny access to my gmail, I get the generic rails 404 "The page you were looking for doesn't exist."

Thank you for this! I'm in the process of teaching my brother HTML/CSS, and this is the perfect tool for when he is not sitting next to me.

For roughly the first year when beginning to learn to code, I refused to use an IDE or any editor that had intellisense. The result was having to remember the syntax of different languages, method names, etc.

I was in college at this point, so it made spotting syntax errors easy for multiple choice questions or debugging on tests.

I also approached coding problems on paper before typing a line of code. This helped to grow how I approached problem solving, rather than whether the page would run properly or not.

If I were to start fresh I'd still take the same approach. I'm a huge believer in repetition for remembering, and writing out code rather than copy/pasting or have it be autocompleted, eventually pays off.