Jakob Skjerning

@jakobs.bsky.social

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Aka @mentalizer from Twitter. Rails OG, web application developer, consultancy owner, sailor, and dad joke appreciator. Building substancelab.dk, frontlobby.dk, skrift.eu, writes at mentalized.net

Elkedel, termokande, instant kaffe og en hvid kaffekop med teksten “navigare vivere est”
View from the cockpit of a sailboat cruising along with both sails hoisted.
Screenshot of a calendar showing two empty days followed by a day where “vacation“ begins. On the vacation day the forecast says rain, on the others, it does not.
Photo of a collie sitting outside in the sun
Screenshot of an AI chat widget that, when asked to get the user a human, says it can't and recommends using the AI chat widget...
Front shot of a man in a sailboat wearing red rain gear and a black life vest. The danish flag is flying behind him. The rain coat says “Helly Hansen”
Screenshot of an email from Heroku saying "This webhook has been deleted." with no mention of any other details.
Screenshot af spørgsmål fra spørgskema, hvor spørgsmålet er "Hvordan har du været i kontankt med din kommune" og en af svarmulighederne er "Via Statsministeren".
An pile of grain with a single glove in it, leading to an upside down bucket in another grain pile.
Screenshot of a browser dialog: "stackoverflow.com wants to look for and connect to any device on your local network" with a "Block" and an "Allow" button.
Screenshot from a code review, showing Copilot suggesting adding a trailing comma to a line that ends in a comma.
Sign up page showing "captcha verification failed; please try again."
2-masted sailboat with all sails hoisted
The stern of Fylla, a wooden, 3-masted schooner
A screenshot of nets.eu showing an error page saying “the server is busy. Try again later”
Screenshot of Ruby code: # Let's not blow through our Sentry plan. config.traces_sample_rate = 0.03
Screenshot from the game, Blue Prince showing the screen after reaching room 46 completing the main part of the game on day 33
Mast and sail on a blue sky background.
Ruby code: # From a freshly generated Rails 8 app with the model structure from # https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Inheritance.html: $ RAILS_ENV=development rails runner "puts Client.all.to_sql" # SELECT "companies".* FROM "companies" WHERE "companies"."type" = 'Client' $ RAILS_ENV=production rails runner "puts Client.all.to_sql" # SELECT "companies".* FROM "companies" WHERE "companies"."type" IN ('Client', 'PriorityClient')
Ruby code: user = User.find_by_email("jakob@substancelab.com") user.email = "jakob@mentalized.net" user.save user.saved_changes # => {"email"=>["jakob@substancelab.com", "jakob@mentalized.net"]}