myrmidex @myrmidex@mastodon.nogods.be

Finally getting annoyed at code style. That's my personal indication I'm settling in well at a new company.

Was challenging though, not many docs out there for GraphQL on Rails. Luckily among my colleagues there are some shoulders of awesome giants to stand on.

@signal9 hah! Been there before professionally, but come to think of it, it suits rather nicely indeed.

@judy absolutely, will do! I thought of one more question, something I really struggle with: how do you host a personal website?

I've seen so many stategies, and docker isn't really working out for me, so I'm wondering if I should struggle on, or try some kind of nginx/apache capistrano setup on a droplet. For one site at first, but I'd like to have the option to extend it to a few more.

@judy it helps a lot, thank you so much!

Eloquent Ruby is already in my list, but Design Patterns in Ruby looks awesome. Same for Growing Rails actually, so much appreciated!!

@judy ohno I won't treat you as I do StackOverflow 🤣

I've been thrown into the deep end at work with GraphQL and ElasticSearch, but I really like it. But it does mean SO is working overtime 🙂

Maybe one thing I would ask: as I've been downloading and buying a lot of ruby books, do you have any book you'd really recommend? Possibly one on pure ruby or a deep look at rails' inner workings?

A side effect of his books is the urge it throws up inside me to get back to writing myself.

I kinda stopped after writing one really good story. Don't really know why.

On a related topic, is there an English word for `faalangst`? Fear of failure or performance anxiety seem so unpoetic :)

Anyway, switched back to a Murakami book of short stories, always makes me feel right at home.

#books

I just couldn't get into Campanella's The City of the Sun. Just reminded me too much of Utopia - even though that's one of my favourite books.

Am I missing something, should I persist?

#TheCityOfTheSun #Utopia #books

@jasmine (a belated) Welcome to Mastodon!! I'm also interested in philosophy and politics, also a programmer, so I'd enjoy following you! Sending you a request now 🤞 😃

@judy Welcome to mastodon! I've recently gotten into ruby professionally so I'm eager to follow you and learn something! :)

I'm struggling setting up rails on docker on my ubuntu machine. Probably due to the awkward file permissions, but I'm forced to as the plan is to host it on a linux droplet. I'll keep on struggling I guess. There's no way I'll pay DO 5 bucks per project to use their pre-made rails "apps"

@vindarel it really is. I had some notion of early history from Debt: The First 5000 Years but Dawn of Everything really turns all my notions upside down. I love when that happens :D

Headline from my native country of Belgium: People are spending less.

Not a little either, up to 30% less people on the high streets, 12% increase in sales of cheap knock-offs.

Thus it begins. Will it end with a bang, or with a whimper?

Last day of developing PHP at the old company yesterday!

On Monday my new adventure starts, developing GraphQL endpoints on Ruby on Rails, getting professional experience in Python (finally) and learning Go, all using TDD.

I couldn't be more excited!