
Hi, I'm Stanko
I am a Web developer making products with Ruby on Rails, Hotwire and Tailwind. Welcome to my neck of the woods. This is where I share my thoughts and projects.
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Corporate newspeak
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought
- George Orwell”
One thing that annoyed me anywhere I worked was that people limit themselves to a narrow subset of English. A subset that's full of buzzwords and phrases that sound impressive but lack meaning. It's a subset design...
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From Markdown to ActionText
I started this iteration of my blog because I grew dissatisfied with Medium. Like anyone migrating from any one platform to another I requested an export of my blog posts from them and got back a ZIP file containing HTML files.
The first thing that stood out was a lack of any media files - there...
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Vanilla Rails view components with partials
Many projects I work on have some kind of view component that is repeated multiple times in the same view, or is present in multiple different views. These view components can be anything that has a specific styling, JavaScript specific attributes (like Stimulus controllers), rendering logic, and...
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