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upgraded my screen today

this week in Solidus

❥ the new admin got a tax rates editor (#6617)
❥ Alistair fixed a longstanding issue that caused intermittent database deadlocks (#6609)
❥ we fixed some crashes around products with incomplete pricing (#6566)
❥ fixed up CI on the v4.6 and v4.7 branches (#6625, #6624)
❥ we also closed many issues and stale PRs (there's only 1 page of PRs on GH now!!)
❥ so much more honestly that won't fit here (#6628, #6612, #6636, #6626, #6613)

somehow using fedora for the first time at age 37

I've mostly decided to relearn qwerty and boy it's a struggle. (I type 100+ wpm on norman)

suprise to no one: human expertise has value https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/out-of-distribution-checks-how-human-intelligence-stabilises-agentic-workflows/

Technology is the new opium
They promised us freedom, gavе us feudalism
When will we see that it's a dеlusion
Our golden future will never come

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EeepVS9OXA

doin duoling o drunk to practice for next trip

we just dropped some security releases for Solidus. get yourself patched. https://solidus.io/blog/security-releases-2026-09-09

finally put the colourful lights in my office

love a good (use of) transaction(s) https://baweaver.com/writing/2026/08/22/rails-sharp-parts-the-block-is-not-the-transaction/

hanami, it's worth looking into https://leftofthe.dev/2026/08/24/hanami-3-impressions.html

if you want to support a Ruby framework that's run by great people, Hanami is what you're looking for https://hanakai.org/blog/2026/08/11/sponsor-hanakai-in-2026

more rubydex in action https://metaredux.com/posts/2026/08/05/rubocop-1-89.html

this week in Solidus

❥ the Stripe integration modernization effort made strides this week. CI is passing consistently and we're preparing PRs to upgrades to newer versions of the Stripe gem and more. props to Adam and Alistair!
❥ the project's components and vendored assets all now ship with the correct licenses. (#6559, #6560)
❥ there was a nice ergonomic change to make sure the installer bails out if one of the steps errors out. (#6553)
❥ Adam fixed some small things in anticipation of Rails 8.2 (#6571, #6570, #6568)
❥ Noah improved the Docker development setup (#6567)
❥ 14 issues closed! we triaged really hard.

coming soon:

❥ payment re-use (#6564)
❥ improvements to managing products that don't yet have prices (#6575, #6566)

"don't just pass around a bunch of hashes" is a thing I've said for a while, but it turns out "it's just bad design" isn't the only reason to not do that https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/05/shrinking-ruby-hashes.html

about to attempt to run 15k with itchy bug bites on both feet

in retrospect it's been clear that Solidus' immutable addresses was a mistake, but it's close to the right idea. we need copy-on-write addresses.

also i'm shit at remembering to find new guests for dead code. please help me. who should be on the show next?

I had a really good talked with Charles on the new dc ep. you should probably know/care more about jruby that you currently do. https://shows.acast.com/dead-code/episodes/bound-for-valhalla-with-charles-nutter

I'm no expert in american electoral politics, but I continue to be alarmed by the extent to which establishment dems seem committed to opposed to things their base likes and also winning.