Barry Hess Test

Code fences sandwiched between bullets:

production_local:
service: Disk
root: '/Storage'

4-space indented codefences sandwiched between bullets:
```
production_local:
  service: Disk
  root: '/Storage'
```

<pre> tags sandwiched between bullets:

production_local:
service: Disk
root: ‘/Storage’

Shortcode sandwiched between bullet:

production_local:
  service: Disk
  root: `/Storage`

End of bullet sandwiches

Code fences floating out there on their own without bullets:

production_local:
  service: Disk
  root: '/Storage'

And same with shortcode:

production_local:
  service: Disk
  root: `/Storage`

Code fences sandwiched between bullets, but with newlines between bullet and code block:
```
production_local:
service: Disk
root: '/Storage'
```
<pre> tags sandwiched between bullets, but with newlines between bullet and code block:

production_local:
  service: Disk
  root: '/Storage'

End of bullet sandwiches

I’m standing up a prototype app using Rails and Render. It wasn’t too hard to figure out how to get things going - Render’s docs have been pretty good! But I figured it is worth jotting down a few pointers about what I had to do right now while using a Render native environment and Rails 7.0.1.

The Rails guide on Active Storage is generally great.
You will be using Render Disks for storage, which means you can no longer stay on the free plan.
Of the available image processing options, Render’s native environments only include imagemagick out of the box, so you will have to use MiniMagick for your processor.
- This means brew install imagemagick
- Rails is transitioning to preferring Vips. While it is not documented yet, you will need config.active_storage.variant_processor = :mini_magick in application.rb to get things working.
When setting up your Disk, note your mount path. I used /storage.
Your storage.yml for production should look something like this:
```
production_local:
service: Disk
root: '/storage'
```

config/environments/production.rb needs:

config.active_storage.service = :production_local

Testing code fences again:

production_local:
  service: Disk
  root: '/storage'

And paste from a working post:

production_local:
  service: Disk
  root: '/Storage'

And

production_local:
  service: Disk
  root: `/Storage`

Remembering good times.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Movie Art

I like to watch art movies. While I don’t only attend art house movie theaters, it’s definitely worthwhile to me to sprinkle some such movies into my regular viewing. I’m more than entertained with a lot of Hollywood properties, but it is a fact that most of those movies do not offer surprises that you’ve never seen on screen before.

Some movies-as-art that I’ve watched in the past few months are A Ghost Story, Annette, and The Power of the Dog. The former two are certainly different from any movies I’ve ever watched before. The latter doesn’t feel all that unique on the surface, but offers a depth of experience that keeps giving long after the credits roll.

A big hangup folks have with movie art is one I think we each have with at least some of the art out there: they don’t understand and the art makes them feel stupid. What is the most common response to something that makes you feel stupid? Call the thing the thing it makes you feel: Stupid! The lesson I try to take with me from my enjoyment of art movies is that I rarely understand the layers being presented while I watch the movie, and I rarely figure out the layers on my own after the movie is completed. The best I usually do is to have a sense that, hey, something was going on there and I bet this or that meant a thing. If I viewed the movie with someone else, we then get to discuss what just happened, trying to puzzle it out for ourselves. We eventually hit the Internet to read the thoughts of others, background on the movie, and so on.

The meaning of movie art is not a thing I understand immediately, but a thing that provides a depth of experience factory farmed movies don’t quite satisfy. It’s like admitting that, yes, a Big Mac (or Filet o’ Fish) is tasty, but it doesn’t offer the same experience as a restaurant with an intentional menu of deep flavors. Sometimes I want that easy hit of dopamine, but I do enjoy mixing in meals with more layers of flavor. If I can’t quite describe what that flavor is, part of the fun is sorting it out with the people around me.

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