and it's all Rowan's and chee's fault

1.hello from the surrey hills

• we are camping and it is raining, a lot
• i just barbecued some smoked mackerel fillets and oh my god. then they got rained on and we ate them in the car
• last time we came here apple maps navigated us to a dead end seven miles away and then said “you have arrived”, very clearly nowhere near the pin on the map
  • imagine being gaslit by apple maps
  • this time we got it to give directions to the pub in the village
• we put a kettle on and almost immediately ran out of butane. and then it got rained on
• i love it here

2. i sold a lens to a friend of a friend

1. WOW I HAVEN'T BLOGGED IN A WHILE

• hahaha funny ironic meta blogging joke

2. okay so i'm the Tech Lead of the FT.com Platforms Team now, what's up with that

hi Alice! hi Rowan

see the thing with writing a blog yourself in rails is you have to maintain it and stuff

i upgraded to Ruby 3.0 because fast but it turns out major versions have breaking changes? weird

apparently URI.decode isn't a thing and also hashes don't become keyword args any more and i can't be waiting for gems i use to fix their shit so back to 2.7 it is

using ActiveStorage it's kind of not even a thing? i drag a file on to the browser and send a form and it just goes into the database? like this frog on a unicycle:

that's stored in Postgres as a Large Object, isn't that neat