TWIL March 13th 2026

• You can give buttons values in Rails
  • Actually I kinda knew this from seeing 'Submit' in params a bunch of times
  • but never considered using it to save as a draft or not for example
• SQL really cares about trailing commas
• Microservices make testing annoying (again)
  • This time because FDW tables are obviously not available if the 'Foreign' part isn't
  • So had to find and update a test stub SQL file which creates them as regular local tables
• Making a way to configure things through an admin UI can save a lot of dev time (/annoyance)
  • No more tickets to set up SSO for a new client! Ty anonymous Japanese senior engineer
• ONWARDS TO ITALLLYYYYY!!!! No TWIL next week, I'll be too busy eating cheese and drinking wine

Links

• Searching for Birds - Visual Cinnamon

I am not a bird person, but if I were even a little bit this site would probably be incredible. Clearly a lot of care put into the visuals, interactivity and content.

• Abusing Customisable Selects - Patrick Brosset

Will probably never do anything quite like the examples at work, but the general concepts this covers could be useful next time someone tells me we need a UI library to style a select.