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I’ve spent most of my willow.camp work on finding a new backend language. But I’ve still updated the Rails app! Here’s what’s changed since my last update. * Moved HTML storage out of the post table and into ActionText. It was this deep dive that made
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I have spent the past few weeks figuring out the future of willow.camp. It turns out I love making it, and I love that a handful of people are using it. I built willow.camp in Rails because I could prototype quickly without having to think about things like
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Quiet on the updates this week. I could rename “Major Features” to “Major Worries” because I’ve spent more time worrying about how images should work than testing them with real users! I enabled image uploads on the marksmith text editor this week, and a few people tested it out
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I recently enabled image uploads in the marksmith text editor on willow.camp. I’ve been hesitant to add media management to willow.camp for two reasons: it is hard to get the user experience right, media management adds extra cost. I am being cost-conscious on willow.camp because it
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It’s been a busy month! I took some time off for a much-needed vacation and forgot to post about willow.camp. I’ve worked on some fun features in the past few weeks. New Features 1. Favicons now use OpenMoji emojis! I think these are adorable icons. I have
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It felt like a quiet week on willow.camp but somehow I still got lots done. Aside from the release notes below, I’m focusing my energy on getting proper favicons for willow.camp blogs. My first version of this will use OpenMoji emojis for favicons. I like their simple
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willow.camp has a small system test suite that runs on CI. It used to use the out-of-the-box settings that come with Rails: Capybara, Selenium, etc. I noticed a flaky test on CI, which launched a journey to replace Selenium with Cuprite. Fixing the Flaky Test I worked through the
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Really quiet week for willow.camp this week. I updated a few dependencies and upgraded the server it runs on. Everything’s been running smoothly! I’ve also been working with an LLM to learn Hanami and might eventually move the backend over to Hanami. I’d lose a lot
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It was a quiet week for willow.camp. The biggest thing I did was to test out generating Open Graph images using a browser canvas. I also improved logging for Honeybadger Insights, which will help me find performance issues. Beta Features * Added a beta feature for auto-generating Open Graph images
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🏕️This post was written when enumerator.dev was hosted on willow.camp, my custom blogging platform. I don’t like competing for clicks. But I do like people reading my blog. If you landed here form LinkedIn, you probably saw a colorful image showing the title of this post. Where
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Here’s everything I did on willow.camp this week. It blows my mind how much I can get done when I’m having fun! I work on this app for about an hour every morning and evening. Major Features Added * Featured posts functionality with toggle UI * Tap/click to
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I asked Claude to find the slowest test file again after my success earlier today and Claude found a call to BCrypt in my fixtures that was gobbling up time. I need user records all over the place in my test and each new user is a new call to