Shutting down Shubox
Last week I sent the following email out to customers, colleagues, supporters and advisors:
shubox.io
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What is Amazon S3?
With so much data, where do you put it? In S3! What's an "S3"? Let's talk about it... Imagine you have a large collection of data, files, “stuff”, you’d like to store safely - photos, videos, important documents, backups, you name it. Now, you could keep all of that under servers of your own control (EG: your own computer, external hard drive, or server), but what if you run out of space, your…
Easy, Quick Webcam Video Recording with Shubox
I won’t lie. The WebRTC and MediaRecorder API’s aren’t the easiest things to get working just right. Not easy, still maybe a little fun. Depending on your outlook, though, Safari might suck a healthy amount of fun out of the exercise. It’s an objectively great browser but the fact remains that Apple continues to slow-walk a number of meaningful API’s. MediaRecorder is one of them. Elsewhere on the…
Shubox JS Library Now With Webcam Support
A few months ago I was out to lunch with my friend, Matt Sly. When he and I get together to catch up, we’d normally shoot the breeze about anything and everything — our families, our day jobs, basketball, politics, what have you. Inevitably it would end up with one of us opening up our laptop to discuss what’s going on with our passion projects. For me that’s Shubox, of course, and for Matt it’s…
Announcing the NEW Shubox JS Library
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Choosing the Right Next-Gen Format for Your Images
The web is getting bigger and slower. One of the easiest ways to improve the big part is to compress your images (or you can do it automatically with Shubox). An alternate question you could ask yourself is whether your image formats are the right type of images in the first place.
Integrating with FormKeep
When I first started working on Shubox I considered it a distant cousin of FormKeep, the “form endpoint” SaaS from Furious Collective, (formerly of thoughtbot). It did one job, did it very well, and went deep on the benefits it brought to those that used it. I have always hoped that Shubox would deliver in a similar fashion.
Use rails-erd Instead of annotate_models
Before we jump into rails-erd and how to integrate it into your workflow let’s talk about something adjacent to that.
⚡Fast First Upload 🚀
Setting up an S3 bucket before using Shubox - no longer required!
Going freemium
Happy holidays! Guess what? I have a gift for you (sort of). More on that shortly. Before we get to that, though, let’s talk a little bit about needs and motivation.