There are many scams in vacation rentals, of which Booking has many. However, there are fewer scams when booking via the big sites, Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.
https://HiChee.com lets hosts "verify" their listings to offer book direct pricing. Plus, guests can pick which platform has the lowest price for a chosen rental.
Many Rails apps are considering migrating away from Heroku. Control Plane provides more compute power at a much lower cost than Heroku especially given it not only auto-scales but also uses AI to only charge for CPU and memory used, NOT allocated. At HiChee.com, we lowered our computing costs by 2/3 while improving performance. The guidebook and cpl gem make this EASY.
I'm the lead maintainer of Shakapacker and the creator of React on Rails. I could not figure out why some people wanted to reinvent webpacker on top of jsbundling-rails, per https://github.com/decidim/decidim/discussions/8783. I was thrilled to see https://github.com/decidim/decidim/pull/10389. I'm so happy that this wonderful open-source project, Decidim, will benefit from my open-source efforts.
I've been a full-time remote worker from Maui, since 2007, a remote freelancer since 2011, and over the last 2 years, I've run a remote consulting and product company. To brador, that says "Remote devs start to have mental health issues from the loneliness and lack of supervision in down times", I'd say that's total hogwash. We spend almost every day video chatting on Skype with people (team members and clients) around the world, and we are very often on ScreenHero sharing screens (often with Skype video), and always on Slack and github conversations. There is 100% no loneliness with this lifestyle. In fact, I'd say spending 1-2 hours a day commuting is a far bigger risk for physical and mental health issues!
Since I founded my company to be 100% remote-first, we've avoided many of the issues that face companies that are schizophrenic about remote work. I've heard numerous stories around Silicon Valley about how companies start allowing "work from home days" and then the senior managers see the parking lot 3/4's empty at 11am, and then there's an ultimatum that you have to work from the office unless you have specific management approval to work from home for one given day. And I'm NOT EVEN EXAGGERATING ONE BIT!
One of the keys to my firms success is to hire team members that love what they do, either programming or design, and that typically interact well on open source. To that end, I've found almost all my team members though our popular open source, https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails/ (1238+ stars), which is the number one package that integrates Ruby on Rails with React via Webpack and NPM.
I just crated a Ruby on Rails & JavaScript Discourse forum: http://forum.railsonmaui.com.
Any advice on how to get community engagement? I don't think there is any other popular free Discourse forum for Ruby, Rails, or JavaScript. It's linked to my blog at http://www.railsonmaui.com. Mahalo!
It's very important that the keyboard is low enough so your wrists are straight. In other words, avoid putting it on top of a high desk.
I've been using this keyboard since working with Richard Williamson and Paul King at Infoscape in in 1997. It does take some getting used to, and you might want to configure the location of some of the keys. I have all the mac modifier keys accessible to my thumbs on BOTH sides so that I hit the modifier with one hand and use the opposite hand for the key, almost always.
https://HiChee.com lets hosts "verify" their listings to offer book direct pricing. Plus, guests can pick which platform has the lowest price for a chosen rental.