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Dad. Traveler. Co-founded & bootstrapped @polleverywhere to $10m ARR. Seeing if I can do it again @rocketshipio while building a future Rails cloud @flydotio.
Feb 28, 2023 17 tweets 7 min read
Sr Rails devs describe Rails as being the easiest and most productive way to build web apps. Meanwhile @joemasilotti @excid3 & others discuss how we’re losing a generation of Jr Rails devs because its daunting.

Can both be true?

Here’s my story on how Rails is losing Jrs.

📖👇 But first, this is NOT a list of complaints—it’s meant to open the eyes of Sr devs to the idea that Rails has strayed from its promise of “convention over configuration” and how other frameworks have caught up to Rails over the past decade.

✌️

Let’s get do it!
Nov 17, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
Got the prototype working!

The form object tracks which fields you’ve used, creates a permitted params hash, signs it, and stuffs it into a hidden `permitted_params` input field.

When the form is submitted, Rails verifies the params and stuffs them into `params.permit` K time for some code!

First up? Here’s what a form can look like that’s implemented with phlex.fun once you get an ApplicationForm setup. Image
Mar 11, 2020 10 tweets 2 min read
Here we go... the VC world talking about “surving hard times” with advice given in lots of words that can be summed up as “be prudent with your money”

I went through YC in S08, known unofficially as “the worst YC class”. It’s when the “RIP good times” Sequoia deck went out.👇 What did we do with our company? We started to raise a small round, but half way through sent everybody their checks back because the amount of revenue we brought in from our customers that year was roughly equal. I called this Customer Capital funding.