15+ years of Rails experience • Building the Practical Ruby on Rails For Beginners course • I tweet about Ruby, Rails, and web development.
Nov 10, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Do you use TailwindCSS for your emails?
If you do, I think that's cool 👍
But you're not... why not?
I recently tried doing that, only to realize it's not that easy.
Fortunately, there's a simple way to do it. Here's how 👇🧵
1/ Email CSS != Browser CSS
The first thing I've quickly realized after adding my first TailwindCSS class to my mailer layout is that email clients are living in a separate universe.
Every email client renders email content differently.
Jul 10, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Ruby on Rails is coming back!
If you're on the Javascript train, you're probably tired of new releases.
But this one's gonna rock the boat. Here's why... 👇🧵
1/ Hotwire is the new React
I remember when React was the new kid on the block, but I think the JS fatigue is real, and everyone needs a break.
Hotwire is the solution to that. Instead of JSON + React + JSX, you get HTML over the wire. And it works!
But there's more...
Jun 29, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I used to spend hours googling a solution to transition my ideas into code.
Fast-forward 15+ years, the code writes itself.
And it's so simple, I wish I knew this back then. Here's how 🧵
1. Start with the end in mind (WHY)
Most web applications exist to solve a problem for the user.
- What's the user's goal?
- What is the user trying to achieve?
