No release, weekly updates, and weekly tip

No release

No release this week as Taylor is on still vacation.

Weekly Journal

Ashley took a day trip last week that turned into a 3 day trip due to some weather. In addition, Emma got sick over the weekend. Again, parent life.

Anyway, this week I'm catching up on the Human Shifts as well as video editing. I've been in video editing hell for about 2 weeks now. So given that and being behind, I'm skipping my Wednesday livestream this week.

On a coding note, I'm looking to swap my email sender from Mailgun. I've just kind of hobbled along with Mailgun. But they are not what they once were. That is unfortunately the case for many services I've used over the past 10 years. I've heard good things about Postmark, Bento, and Resend. But it seems many of these services just wrap SES. So maybe I should just use SES. We'll see.

Weekly Tip

Per the above, I didn't write much code over the last week. However, I did think more about the Action pattern. My challenge is that it can be a weak abstraction. That is most simply take a block of code and copy/paste it into an Action class. That's not really its intended use.

I think its true goal is to encapsulate a block of reusable code. So if you're just plopping your controller code into an Action class, or aren't actually reusing the Action, I don't its the value.