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: blog.travisfantina.comThis system doesn’t get heavy usage, but for a legacy Rails app that I’ve spent the last year upgrading and adding features too it’s nice to see this right in the peak of “busy season”.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/197914/2026/screenshot-2026-11-09-at-09.41.46.png\")
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Diffs like this make me proud… Admittedly I also wrote all those 1365 lines; no regrets! They worked in production for about three years, the client switched vendors, the process is more streamlined now my work around was no longer needed.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/197914/2026/screenshot-2026-09-16-at-20.49.25.png\")
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Block Editors: blog.travisfantina.com
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\nAI, and so much “technology” - or we’ll say services (ie. Uber Eats) seem designed to “take the friction” out of our daily lives; you don’t need to hail a cab, you don’t need to go to the record store, you don’t need need to...
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","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/05/19/an-evening-in-december.html","date_published":"2026-05-19T13:26:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-19 13:26","date_timestamp":1779197193,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89969574","content_html":"My daughter uses the same backpack I did 30 years ago! Hail to the once great, and again trendy Jansport.
\nI also love that she’s adorned it with some finger knitting!
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/05/12/my-daughter-uses-the-same.html","date_published":"2026-05-12T13:43:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-12 13:43","date_timestamp":1778593419,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89763587","content_html":"Infinite Blahs in a GitHub username: blog.travisfantina.com
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\n\n\nAsked late on Thursday whether he would consider pulling US troops out of Italy and Spain, Trump told reporters: “Probably …\"
\n
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2…
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","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/04/29/leaving-vercel.html","date_published":"2026-04-29T11:10:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-29 11:10","date_timestamp":1777461038,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84435083","content_html":"@manton it’s nice to have the perpetual “redo” button with deploys but I think we’d all do better to code with the “only ship once” mindset. Leads to better code, less wasted resources and happier customers (I am by no means an expert in any of this).
\nI remember someone once making the contract between software architects and watch designers; when a watch is built there isn’t really any going back, if you have to take it back in six months or six years even then it’s sort of a failed product.
@manton so sorry to hear about this. Your work has meant a lot to me over the years. From longer posts to the single photos. My wife makes fun of me for getting so much joy out of the photos of iced coffee you post, the small mundane things in my RSS feed help me appreciate everything around me.
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