Benjamin Pollack

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icon company @tkww icon location Raleigh, NC icon location I'm a Principal Engineer and Senior Engineering Manager at @tkww. I previously worked at Dooly, @Bakpax, @Khan, and Knewton, and cofounded Kiln at Fog Creek.

Results 5 issues of Benjamin Pollack

Figure out a path forward with the CA bundle

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Right now, we're not really actively maintaining the CA bundle (see https://github.com/activemerchant/active_merchant/commits/master/lib/certs/cacert.pem). That's fine for people who override the CA bundle anyway, but we should probably come up with an...

compatibility
technical debt

build Docker images as part of our release cycle

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Especially given we're already on Travis, I don't think it'd be too hard to build Docker images as part of our release cycle. That'd be very handy in server contexts,...

deploy
usability
virtualized
release
cloud
travis-ci
docker
build-farm

Transcript is immune to tiling

I haven't quite sorted out what's going on here, but DWM seems completely unaware that the Transcript exists or what to do with it. Hitting Command-W/Alt-W will reliably close some...

Crash with Deno LSP on Windows when searching project symbols

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### Summary When I open a Deno project, using the Deno LSP, and attempt to navigate to a symbol (i.e. `S`) on Windows, Helix crashes with the following error: ```...

C-bug
A-command

Experiment: TreeCopy

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This is an experiment with having a generic tree copier as a way to simplify gateway implementations. It's not done, and may be overengineered, but it's hopefully an interesting thought-experiment...