Lucas Homer

Lucas Homer

@lucashomer.com

💻🏃‍♂️🥖 in CA Cookery, coder-y lucashomer.com

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The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

theatlantic.comMahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial RunThe pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
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If I did it over again, I *might* have just gone with the in-house managed Ghost experience, but the difference is ultimately fairly negligible. Overall, I chose these tools because they're easy and fast to set up, and once I hand it off, they won't need me very much.

Would love to hear if you've done anything similar, what tools you chose, etc. Side projects are extra fun when they have real stakes and it feels great to give back. They're going to be pretty active these next four years, and they're going to be ready for growth in outreach and audience.

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We've set up a Stripe account, transferred domain registration from Namebright to Cloudflare, and created a self-hosted instance of Ghost + MySQL via Render. Email delivery with Mailgun. Forms with Formspree. Bought a Ghost theme that suits their needs and vibe. All in, it's about $70-80 per month.

Considering the current site's registration and hosting and everything costs them about $35-40 per month, and does essentially nothing, it's pretty great to get SO much more with the modern set of tools and infra for around twice that.

Outside of dev work, I spend a lot of my time running in the mountains surrounding Ojai where I live. We're blessed to have land trusts, conservation groups, etc. Keep Sespe Wild, was instrumental in getting protected status for the Sespe Wilderness. My mate runs it now, and I offered to help

If you look at the current site, it's a bit sparse, to say the least. It's time to change that. Some requirements: Email newsletter, online newsletter archive, some educational resources pages, online donations, contact and volunteer forms, and a way to sign up for the print newsletter too.

sespewild.orgLodging - Home Page

Okay it’s time for me to write a thread about bringing a local nonprofit from EarthLink-hosted one page site into 2024. With receipts!

Technology Connections@techconnectify.bsky.social

I wish we could cultivate a culture where people get excited about and share the new skills they've learned more than the new stuff they've bought.

Solved our non-US SMS login issue! Twilio quietly switched off all non-US/Canada geo-enabling so we had to dig around the dashboard and find that page, then manually opt-in for each territory, and then opt out of those that weren’t labeled “high risk” but they emailed us saying they actually were 🥲

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This is what you are looking for, my beautiful babies.

Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social

If you’re good at internet sleuthing and want to put your skills to work to help wildfire victims you can check for LA county rentals that have suddenly doubled in price, publicly name and shame the agents doing this, and report them to the government because it’s illegal: oag.ca.gov/contact/cons...

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this is our actual climate future staring us in the face - no consensus reality or shared source of authority, rampant conspiracies everywhere, more pressure to address made up nonsense than the underlying problem conspiracy theories are fully mainstream now

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social

LA Fire TikTok comments are BLEAK. Every conspiracy theory I’ve ever heard plus a bunch that are brand new.

The amount of conspiracy nonsense and general ignorance and misinformation around the fires and why the happen, what we/“they”/points-at-someone should do/should’ve done… I cannot handle it. Go read Mike Davis. Go read Obi Kaufman. Stop prognosticating and show love and support to those affected.

Run club had a holiday pizza party and a buddy and I made dough. I engineered my face off and he went with a more… unstructured method 😅 Both turned out great

@expo.dev happy friday! I'm evaluating where to run my Maestro tests, and I'm curious about the 'preview mode' disclaimer on EAS Workflows. Do you have customers using it in prod? Is it mostly stable? Would love to leverage these workflows now but don't know if I should wait a bit. Thanks!

The launch went really well! I followed it with a two week torrent of UI details/fast-follows. Dust is settling and it’s time to write a launch post-mortem. I’ve learned a few things and I’m excited to share.

Lucas Homer@lucashomer.com

Seven months of work goes live to our customers today. A new iOS app. Every commit by yours truly. I feel nervous, excited, and a bit queasy.

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You can only be great at Development and programming if you are truly willing to be bad at it first. If you are willing to be bad, pay attention and learn. If you do that, you will truly become great at this!

Showered my friends with fresh baked bread yesterday 😇 I made two of roasted garlic + rosemary and two classic. Holiday season is going to be fun.

last week I self-soothed with the king's college choir singing christmas carols. this week? dune soundtrack. so it's spacious, reverberating vocals, with some religiosity sprinkled on top. got it.

Happy Friday! It’s bake day. Doing some holiday season testing with more additions 😇 This batch is walnuts, dried apricots, and cinnamon. I added 2tbsp honey after the autolyse, same time I add the 20g salt dissolved in 50g water. Now for the 🧈 and ☕️

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there is something very funny about the influx of guys here who really think they are going to troll and make people cry and don’t understand that no one cares about blocking here and will do it at a moment’s irritation