{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - John Beales","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/beales","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"2463","username":"beales","bio":"Make websites. Ride a bike. Grow a garden.","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":16,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"John Beales","url":"https://johnbeales.com","avatar":"https://micro.blog/photos/200/https%3A%2F%2Fjohnbeales.com%2Ffavicon.ico"},"items":[{"id":"95839615","content_html":"\n

I was just thinking this morning how nighttime temperatures have dropped, and that probably means that the hot part of summer is over, and fall is on the way. \"šŸ\"

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Updated my 13 year old API mashup, Monarch Migration Explorer, to use Leaflet & OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps.

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Take a look at where Monarch butterflies have been spotted over the last several years at https://monarchs.johnbeales.com

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Saw a post on X about Harvest jacking up their prices, so I checked my account. They had me scheduled to go from US$12/month to US$116.50/month at the end of August, by putting me on an Enterprise plan with unlimited usage.

The thing is, I donā€™t need an Enterprise plan with unlimited usage, I would be fine...

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Read (well, skimmed) this fascinating article about dealing with bot traffic on PatronView just now. Unlike Nick, at 4RoadService we do have our site on a VPS, so when the bots came for us it took us down.

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Iā€™m heading down the same road as Nick. Our audience is also in North America, so several weeks ago...

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The Notebook: johnbeales.com

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Making the Impossible Possible: johnbeales.com

","summary":"I find myself waiting on the blinking square cursor of the Claude Code TUI thinking ā€œgo faster,ā€ even though I know itā€™s already going so much faster than I would have been able to go myself a few months ago. Since starting development with AI agents I feel there is so much more to do [ā€¦]\n\nThe post ...","url":"https://johnbeales.com/2026/making-the-impossible-possible/","date_published":"2026-07-02T20:25:50+00:00","author":{"name":"John Beales","url":"https://johnbeales.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fjohnbeales.com%2Ffavicon.ico","_microblog":{"username":"beales"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-02 20:25","date_timestamp":1783023950,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92923375","content_html":"\n

Working with CSS Container Queries for the first time today, and they donā€™t quite work how I expected them to work. Itā€™s leading to me having to declare selectors in ways that are not natural to me, although the selectors are working as expected. In short, itā€™s making me think, harder than most days.

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The...

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The Apollo Murders \"\" : johnbeales.com

","summary":"With a title like The Apollo Murders I expected something a lot closer to a classic whodunnit. This wasnā€™t that, and Iā€™m glad it wasnā€™t ā€“ it was better! Want to read it yourself? Get from Amazon: Amazon.com (USA) Amazon.ca (Canada) Amazon.co.uk (UK)\n\nThe post The Apollo Murders appeared first on Joh...","url":"https://johnbeales.com/books/the-apollo-murders/","date_published":"2026-06-20T13:36:11+00:00","author":{"name":"John Beales","url":"https://johnbeales.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fjohnbeales.com%2Ffavicon.ico","_microblog":{"username":"beales"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-20 13:36","date_timestamp":1781962571,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92401428","content_html":"

Web Cartography \"\" : johnbeales.com

","summary":"Iā€™ve been meaning to read this for years. I finally picked up a copy for a decent price last year, and read it as a refresher before embarking on some map creation. It seems a bit strange, reading a technology-related book from 2014 in 2026, but Ian Muehlenhaus did a good job of keeping most [ā€¦]\n\nTh...","url":"https://johnbeales.com/books/web-cartography/","date_published":"2026-06-18T00:38:17+00:00","author":{"name":"John Beales","url":"https://johnbeales.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fjohnbeales.com%2Ffavicon.ico","_microblog":{"username":"beales"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-18 00:38","date_timestamp":1781743097,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92119467","content_html":"\n

Yesterdayā€™s Fable ban caught me by surprise, I was planning on using Fable 5 until at least June 22, and hoping that it wouldnā€™t actually go token-only after June 22. Fable is good, even great!

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Iā€™m back on Opus 4.8 with GPT 5.5 supervision earlier than expected. \"šŸ˜ž\"

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Itā€™s time for the Jetbrains Developer Ecosystem Survey! Participate at my referral URL! https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/developer-ecosystem-survey-2026-sh?pcode=473387363801875378

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Fixing Chromeā€™s ā€œNo usable sandbox!ā€ During Web Requests with Browsershot and Puppeteer: johnbeales.com

","summary":"After getting Chrome up and running as the www-data user for Laravel workers, I tried to generate a PDF during a web request and got Chromeā€™s ā€œNo usable sandbox!ā€ error. Uh-oh. Chrome needs a sandbox, it is strongly discouraged to run without one. So, how to get a sandbox up and running? A lot of [ā€¦...","url":"https://johnbeales.com/2026/fixing-chromes-no-usable-sandbox-during-web-requests-with-browsershot-and-puppeteer/","date_published":"2026-06-11T01:43:13+00:00","author":{"name":"John Beales","url":"https://johnbeales.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fjohnbeales.com%2Ffavicon.ico","_microblog":{"username":"beales"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-11 01:43","date_timestamp":1781142193,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91945422","content_html":"

Install Chrome as the www-data User: johnbeales.com

","summary":"After recently rebuilding the 4RoadService web server on Debian 13, Browsershot wasnā€™t working right. It wasnā€™t working at all. We run Laravel on a slightly old-school LAMP setup with PHP-FPM, and run the Laravel workers as the www-data user, the same user that runs the web server, so that user need...","url":"https://johnbeales.com/2026/install-chrome-as-the-www-data-user/","date_published":"2026-06-11T01:16:55+00:00","author":{"name":"John Beales","url":"https://johnbeales.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fjohnbeales.com%2Ffavicon.ico","_microblog":{"username":"beales"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-11 01:16","date_timestamp":1781140615,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91863688","content_html":"\n

Asked Claude Code with Fable 5 to write some API docs based on the code, and it did, and also pointed out some bugs in the API, which it is now fixing, and updating the docs to match the fixes.

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Iā€™m migrating analytics to a new database structure for 4RoadService, it looks like this will take a few days. This should enable faster, better, and more accurate reporting for our customers.

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Playing around with Anthropicā€™s Fable this afternoon to do some code review and write some documentation. So far it seems to be very thorough.

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So far all my Claude Code work has been with Laravel. Today Iā€™m starting a new project with WordPress, and will be interested to see how Claude does in a slightly different domain.

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I am now a member of the ā€œClaude code deleted something that it shouldnā€™t have from my databaseā€ club! Good thing it was a development database.

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Developer headaches meet real-world applications.

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Thatā€™s pretty cool that cruise ships are stopping there, itā€™s the type of useless, geeky ā€œvisitā€ that nobody needs to make, but I would love to be able to say I have done.

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The Historian \"\" : johnbeales.com

","summary":"I received Elizabeth Kostovaā€™s vampire novel The Historian for my birthday earlier this spring, and finished it last night. It has been great fun to read. I read Dracula back in 2023, but it seems like this year, for some reason, I have had more exposure to vampire stories, maybe because my Russian ...","url":"https://johnbeales.com/books/the-historian/","date_published":"2026-05-23T21:25:51+00:00","author":{"name":"John Beales","url":"https://johnbeales.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fjohnbeales.com%2Ffavicon.ico","_microblog":{"username":"beales"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-23 21:25","date_timestamp":1779571551,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90657637","content_html":"\n

Switched to the new ATmosphere plugin for Bluesky/AT protocol integration from johnbeales.com, and it seems great. So far it does exactly what I want it to.

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WordPress 7.0 upgrade completed, nothing seems broken.

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\n","summary":"","url":"https://johnbeales.com/micro/2026-05-21t151625-0400/","date_published":"2026-05-21T19:17:15+00:00","author":{"name":"John Beales","url":"https://johnbeales.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fjohnbeales.com%2Ffavicon.ico","_microblog":{"username":"beales"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-21 19:17","date_timestamp":1779391035,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90657639","content_html":"\n

Time to update to WordPress 7.0! It seems like a big release.

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Did a lot of cleaning today while Claude & Codex were churning. Iā€™m going to have to spin up a side project or something to handle the waiting.

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@aaronpk is that a chain store that might have a Montreal location? Iā€™d love to grab some more ABA books, but shipping to Canada is super expensive.

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