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Managing Rails app Stripe credentials in a Heroku pipeline

When we first setup a Heroku pipeline using review apps, the best way to manage credentials wasn’t clear. Here’s what we came up, which is working really well and gives us great flexibility.

Our privacy policy: “none of your damn business”

Making use of privacy-stealing services is an easy trap to fall into, even for informed consent non-profits that are being censored by the parent companies of the very services they are using!

Combo vaccines: convenience or safety?

Doctors often prefer combination vaccines, which deliver multiple vaccinations in a single shot. For parents, this means fewer office visits.

But is this the best option for your child?

Your doctor’s advice: cartoons or fine print?

Is your doctor giving you cartoon-based advice about vaccination during pregnancy?

Here’s what I mean…

Fear, censorship and mandates

Every business, whether it knows it or not, has a theory of the business (an idea that originated with Peter Drucker). As the article points out, the theory needs to be constantly tested and occasionally changed to fit reality.

Our theory is that…

USA Today: Measles in 1988, no fear, 75% of cases in vaccinated kids

USA TODAY, September 2, 1988. Measly figure: Measles decreased 42% in the USA last year to 3,655 cases, reports the national Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta. That’s the first drop in four years since the record low of 1,497 cases in ’83. Nearly three-fourths of the cases were patients, mostly children, who’d been vaccinated but got measles anyway.

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