Mike Dalton

I just wanted Claude to remove the insane number of comments it added. Twenty minutes later...

I’m heading to @sfruby.com conference this year and you should too! It was a lot of fun last year. The team really knows how to put on a conference and the line up for speakers looks great.

I had a great time speaking at RubyConf Africa yesterday! Thank you so much for inviting me to speak and welcoming me to your country.

Join me at @sfruby.com's Startup Conference and get your pixel card too 👾 sfruby.com

In three weeks, I'll be speaking at RubyConf Africa about my experiences building a Hotwire Native app for Calendar Vision. I'm really looking forward to meeting the African Ruby community and visiting Africa for the first time.

Last Tuesday, Neha presented her talk "Powerful Data: Making Rails Apps Faster with Aggregation" at @phillyrb.org. We meet every third Tuesday at @indyhall.org. We've been getting 15-20 people the last couple events and we'd love for even more people to join us!

Accidentally listened to the clean version of Tears and learned they bleep out “wet” 🤣

This week I spoke at @RubyConf for the first time. This conference has been a big part of my life the last 10 years so it was really cool to take the stage for the first time and share what I’ve been working on.

Thanks for having me on!

I just survived Authentication Hell 😈🔐 — the full credential gauntlet. Think you can beat it? Break a leg, @kcdragon.bsky.social! #RubyConf authenticationhell.com/public/certi...

Matz at RubyConf: “Give up the keystrokes, not the responsibility.” Love this.

Even the Comcast Center outdoor TV isn’t immune to this annoying pop up 🤦 We missed the France goal because of this lol

Can’t wait to see @kcdragon.bsky.social’s talk on Thursday! Are you joining us? RSVP here: luma.com/7mq7d7m8 #ruby #infosec #phillyrb

On Thursday night, I'll be giving a preview of my @RubyConf talk at @phillyrb.org. I'll talk about the game I'm building with DragonRuby and Rails. All are welcome! https://luma.com/7mq7d7m8

I like what Philly has done with the south side of Market right before the World Cup and All Star Game. It may not look like much but it usually looks a lot worse here.

My doctor told me I need to stop eating potato chips. Not buying all three kinds took a lot of restraint.

I remember playing Fable 3 on the Xbox. I can’t wait to see what they’ve come up with for Fable 5.

This is one of the weirder ways I've been asked to select a state on a website. It looks like a dropdown but then it opens a modal with radio buttons representing each state.

I didn’t watch WWDC. Did Apple announce a fix for this?

I'm excited to share I'll be speaking for the first time at @RubyConf in July in Las Vegas. 10 years ago I attended my first Ruby Conf in Cincinnati so its pretty cool to be speaking there for the first time. I'll have more to share about my talk shortly. #RubyConf2026

Claude Design does a pretty good job with app store screenshots. Five images for both iOS and Android translated into five different languages. It was able to get the dimensions and file size right with a little prompting.

I recently redid the home page for Calendar Vision. The original one had some AI generated placeholders that I wanted to eventually replace. I think the new one does a better job of providing examples showing how you can use Calendar Vision. I'd love feedback if anyone has it.

I finally watched Marty Supreme this weekend and my only thoughts are: why is the shark tank guy a main character in this movie?

Join us for Philly.rb at Indy Hall on Tuesday the 19th for a Hack Night! https://www.meetup.com/phillyrb/events/314752139/

Stain glass panels are really popular in Philly rowhomes. I finally got one for mine.

This is a cool feature in @conductor_build. Submit a feature idea prompt and they might run it and include it. I'd love an easy way to setup a new project for use with Conductor. I already prompt Conductor to configure Conductor. I want a button that prompts Conductor for me.

In case you were wondering, this is my number one ranked cereal

A friend told me that IBM does video interviews with an AI voice that asks you behavioral questions. I guess I shouldn't be surprised but that feels so dystopian.

Claude asking me this is so annoying. It's obvious it should be fixed but I easily miss it when queueing additional prompts.

VC coffee is coming to Philly

Of course he’s got a LinkedIn sponsorship 😆

Does it drive anyone else crazy that Unreads isn't shown by default in Slack? That's my favorite view.

I took the 2026 #Rails Community Survey. You should too! railsdeveloper.com/survey/

Tonight we're having a @phillyrb.org meetup at @indyhall.org. All are welcome. https://www.meetup.com/phillyrb/events/314336149

I've started using @Hetzner_Online for my projects. I'm running into an issue where I cannot get a better instance in US East. I've tried 3 times over the past couple weeks and get the same error each time. Are they at capacity? Am I doing something else wrong?

Exactly what I need from Starbucks

All microwave popcorn bags say don’t use the popcorn button and all microwaves have a popcorn button. What’s wrong with the popcorn button?

The Apple AI feature I actually want is to search settings for things like "don't turn off display on battery".

We’ve gone too far

I used to leaving a failing test for the next day but now I leave an unapproved plan.

I vibe coded too hard yesterday and passed an entire image as a parameter to a background job. I should have caught this but shouldn't Claude have caught this too?

I love when Claude comes up with an interesting solution that I'm not familiar with. I wanted a textarea with automatic styling for some words. It recommended a "Transparent textarea + styled backdrop". This is probably well known but I had never heard of it.