Chris Waters @activerecorder

I do Rails at @shopify, walk the dog, and drive the kids to netball. Woodbridge, England Joined May 2008

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Chris Waters @activerecorder

7 months ago

@dvassallo I have a Miele Duoflex and it’s great. Battery not amazing if you’re on a long stint, but for a quick zoom around the kitchen, it’s brill.

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Apple Music, but with something like Claude skills, so I can spend an unnecessary amount of time explaining why The River is probably the best Springsteen album, and yet Darkness is my favourite. Or that Rubber Soul is the perfect pop record. In markdown. 🔥

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Chris Waters @activerecorder

7 months ago

Rails was always a *crazy unlock* for a single dev. Now you have hyper scaffolding. You architect, it builds. But, and I beg you, there is still no need for service objects.

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8 months ago

I think people are sleeping a bit on how much Ruby on Rails + Claude Code is a *crazy unlock* - I mean Rails was designed for people who love syntactic sugar, and LLMs are sugar fiends.

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Chris Waters @activerecorder

8 months ago

@joulee Maybe it’s time to reframe that job. Nobody questions the importance or skill of a great book editor. To improve clarity, steer narrative, and trim the meaningless feels more necessary than ever.

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Chris Waters @activerecorder

8 months ago

@SlexAxton Spelt is acceptable in the UK. Which, relatively speaking, is quite the optimisation.

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8 months ago

@matheusrich Very useful for 🔐 100% secure SSL certified Pay Now retro buttons

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Chris Waters @activerecorder

9 months ago

@cooperx86 This is the way. We have one in my part of Suffolk, too. Good fun. Bloody loud. We took the dog one year and I think he’s never forgiven us.

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Chris Waters @activerecorder

10 months ago

@theatreofchips @bushontheradio Oh my, I was thinking about this game on the dog walk today. Trying to work out why it felt so damn cool. The 3D-ness of it all, perhaps? (Amazing what turning some more board into a couple of walls could do, really.)

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Chris Waters @activerecorder

10 months ago

@nateberkopec That acronym wouldn’t be made up of a few Ds, by any chance?

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Chris Waters @activerecorder

11 months ago

@adamwooding Very kind, although I was just trying to make amends for my mistake. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Keep on building; we love to see it.

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11 months ago

@adamwooding @liam_at_shopify @ShopifyDevs Fix has been shipped.

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11 months ago

@Jahangir503 Fix shipped. Apologies for the confusion.

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11 months ago

@fraxool @ShopifyDevs Deployment is complete. Banners should be gone?

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Chris Waters @activerecorder

11 months ago

@adamwooding @liam_at_shopify @ShopifyDevs No. Nothing you need to fix (unless you are still relying solely on TYP/OSP script tags). I shipped a bug in the display logic that caused this banner to show when it should not. Not my finest hour, but we live and learn.

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Chris Waters @activerecorder

11 months ago

@adamwooding @liam_at_shopify @ShopifyDevs No worries. Least I could do given the confusion it causes. Fix is already rolling out, and should be complete within the next couple of hours. Shout then if you're still seeing it and I will investigate.

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Chris Waters @activerecorder

2 years ago

@schwad_rb I have absolutely no idea what they are. But my guess is that one of them is the “make tests impossible to discern with half million let declarations in your horrible rspec test suite” era.