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Caleb Hearth

Lead Support Engineer at Heroku
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Caleb is a dreamer, speaker, and computer whisperer. He organizes the Keep Ruby Weird conference, which of course you’ve heard of and are very impressed by. When he’s not painting miniatures or climbing cliffs to jump off into the water, he codes in Ruby and Go at Heroku. He walked barefoot from the wintry tundra of Alaska to the harsh deserts of Arizona. Okay, that’s not true, but he did live in those places. He currently hails from Austin, TX—the taco capital of the United States. Read more of what he writes at https://www.calebhearth.com

It is never easy to know how to react, communicate, or at times, even feel, during something as heartbreaking and real as the struggles that our fellow humans face through no fault of their own. As Herokai, we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and want to share some of our thoughts on the struggle, as well as some actions and resources that we find helpful. We will be keeping this post updated and would love to include your voice. Please send us any thoughts that you’d like to share at: feedback@heroku.com. “Many, if not all, of…

Observatory by Mozilla helps websites by teaching developers, system administrators, and security professionals how to configure their sites safely and securely. Let's take a look at the scores Observatory gives for a fairly straightforward Static Buildpack app, https://2017.keeprubyweird.com. Test Scores Test Pass Score Explanation Content Security Policy ✗ -25 Content Security Policy (CSP) header not implemented Cookies ― 0 No cookies detected Cross-origin Resource Sharing ✔ 0 Content is not visible via cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) files or headers HTTP Public Key Pinning ― 0 HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP) header not implemented (optional) HTTP Strict Transport Security ✗ -20…

Jekyll, the static website generator written in Ruby and popularized by GitHub, is a great candidate for being run on Heroku. Originally built to run on GitHub Pages, running Jekyll on Heroku allows you to take advantage of Jekyll’s powerful plugin system to do more than convert Markdown to HTML. On my blog, I have plugins to download my Goodreads current and recently read books and to generate Open Graph images for posts. That said, it’s not straightforward to get up and running on Heroku without using jekyll serve to do the heavy lifting. jekyll serve uses Ruby’s built-in, single…

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