Tate Johnson @tatey@mastodon.social
Strong opinions, unowned retained. CTO at Five Good Friends. Swift, Ruby, and servers.
Joined Jun 2017
Rails, CSRF protection
I thought I found a neat way to link to POST and PATCH requests from emails.
1. Links go to /magic?method=POST&action=/path/to/action
2. /magic loads HTML page with form which is submitted via JS
This would let me contain all the messiness to one page, re-use my existing actions, and get CSRF protections.
It’s been working well, but there’s a handful of people who seem to consistently get an CSRF authenticity exceptions.
I’m stumped. Token is there. Is session reset?
I’m grateful for @davidherse making a Zap that randomly assigns 4 co-workers in Basecamp for a “water cooler” chat once a week. The bot gives us a window of time and we just use the comments to find the last mile. I prefer this flexibility over rigid calendars.
The number of “Deliver status notification” emails I got from my background job running on my VPS. Hmmmmmmmmmm, something is misconfigured.
I’d prefer to use DNS, but at least I can send and receive from my custom domain now.
I’m building a landing page and as an experiment I decided to “design” straight in HTML/CSS instead of Sketch. I’m pretty happy with how it’s going.
How do you know someone uses vim? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you about it.
It’s nice to get a preview of a tab from hovering over the tab bar in Safari 14 on macOS.
My hack kind of works!
You send an email to apply for a job and the hiring manager reads your cover letter without seeing names, genders, nationalities, languages, or places you talk about. If the hiring manager wants to reach out the original email is attached.
Pretty sure I am not supposed to be using Boosts inside Basecamp this way:
Strong opinions, unowned retained. CTO at Five Good Friends. Swift, Ruby, and servers.
Joined Jun 2017
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