TWIL April 10th 2026

• When fixing someone else's mistake it's generally best not to make one of your own
  • You can't rescue passing nil to JSON.parse for some reason
• The senior engineer who referred me for my job has (had) a blog!
• More of a 'today I remembered' but there's a native HTML progress element
  • It's much easier than using divs/pseudoelements
• expect_any_instance_of needs to go at the start of the spec, not the end
• Having a StandardError rescue for your controller action (or anything really) is a pretty bad idea
  • makes it very difficult to differentiate among failure modes i.e. should or shouldn't crash the app
  • made me think passing a no_throw param back in the failure response from another service was a good idea
  • I really hope that's not the solution we end up with
  • Should probably just refactor the StandardError to catch specific stuff/API to throw depending on type
  • But dangerous, I wonder if I can catch more specific stuff first...