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Friday, 6th August 2021

Apply conversion functions to data in SQLite columns with the sqlite-utils CLI tool

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Earlier this week I released sqlite-utils 3.14 with a powerful new command-line tool: sqlite-utils convert, which applies a conversion function to data stored in a SQLite column.

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Breaking Changes to the Web Platform (via) “Over the years there have been necessary changes to the web platform that caused legacy websites to break.”—this list is thankfully very short, only 11 items so far. Let’s hope it stays that way!

# 6:32 am / web

The thing about semver major version numbers are that they don't mean new stuff, they're a permanent reminder of how many times you got the API wrong. Semver doesn't mean MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, it means FAILS.FEATURES.BUGS

Will McGugan

# 4:17 pm / versioning, semver, will-mcgugan

Running GitHub on Rails 6.0. Back in 2019 Eileen M. Uchitelle explained how GitHub upgraded everything in production to Rails 6.0 within 1.5 weeks of the stable release. There’s a trick in here I really like: they have an automated weekly job which fetches the latest Rails main branch and runs the full GitHub test suite against it, giving them super-early warnings about anything that might break and letting them provide feedback to upstream about unintended regressions.

# 4:30 pm / continuous-integration, github, rails

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