News from Betterstimulus - November 2024

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Julian Rubisch
December 03, 2024

Dear subscribers,

as usual, here are some updates to my activities that happened in the month of November 👇

Betterstimulus

I've added a new recipe to the cookbook section:

  • Refresh when visible: Use the page visibility API to issue a (morphing) page refresh when a page becomes visible

🚀 And there’s more coming for Hotwire Club subscribers:

In preparation for upcoming "pro" recipes, you can now sign in using your Patreon account. In the future, I plan to publish recipes that are exclusive to patrons, so stay tuned 🔥:

New Hotwire Club Challenges

One new challenge plus solution was posted in November:

Turbo Drive - Swiper-like View Transitions: Use the View Transitions API to drive powerful native-like animations

There will be one final challenge this year, and it will be about Faceted Search 🔍

Avo Hackathon

Something unusual happened last week: I had Adrian and Paul from Avo over for a week-long hackathon, and not only did we have a great time but also worked on some really cool new features:

Writing

For the RorVsWild blog, I've written a blog post detailing how to speed up full text searches in PostgreSQL using materialized views:

As always, I hope there was something in there for you and you keep me in good memory 😉

Hey, it’s Julian 👋

You probably know me from one of my open source endeavors (StimulusReflex, CableReady, TurboBoost) or one of the info products I built.

But apart from this, I’m a freelance Ruby on Rails consultant with a focus on simplicity, aesthetics and code quality. I especially know Reactive Rails technologies like Hotwire (Turbo, Stimulus) inside out and can help you transition to a brighter future with less tech debt and more flexibility.

I’ve got the following offerings for you: