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Jonah Peretti and Nike

From: "Personalize, NIKE iD" nikeid_personalize@nike.com To: "Jonah H. Peretti" peretti@media.mit.eduSubject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000

2001-02-19T03:04:36-0800 The Guardian Guardian staff reporter 1,000 words

Rated 2025-09-14T19:47:27-0700 - sethherr

Rails on SQLite: exciting new ways to cause outages

This post was originally given as a talk for Friendly.rb. The slides are also available. Between Litestack and the Rails 8 trifecta of Solid Cable, Solid Cache, and Solid Queue, it’s easier than ever to spin up a Rails app that doesn’t need a database service, or a redis service, or a file storage service. It’s great to simplify things, but even after 20 years of deploying Rails apps I was still caught out by some of the ways things are different.

2025-09-11T08:29:51-0700 André.Arko.net André Arko 3,000 words

Rated 2025-09-11T21:12:12-0700 - sethherr

Hotwire components that refresh themselves | Boring Rails: Skip the bullshit and ship fast

boringrails.com

Rated 2025-09-09T08:43:46-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | Stop Funding Trump’s Takeover

Democrats aren’t powerless, and they don’t have to enable autocracy. #Corruption #Donald Trump #US Politics

2025-09-06T22:02:19-0700 The New York Times Ezra Klein ($) 4,000 words

Rated 2025-09-07T14:12:19-0700 - sethherr

This power source is 15,000 ft below the ground | Bill Gates

A company called Fervo Energy is hoping to supercharge geothermal power with an innovative new approach to turning the earth’s heat into power. #Climate Change

gatesnotes.com Bill Gates 1,000 words

Rated 2025-09-06T14:43:17-0700 - sethherr

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