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Voices of Hiroshima by Scene on Radio: https://sceneonradio.org/s1-e20-hearing-hiroshima-2025-rebroadcast/
Had listened to this before but an important reminder on the immense harm of war and the atrocities committed by both sides. We can't let the results of these acts be forgotten lest we repeat ourselves.
Fully updated to Code of Conduct 3.0.0: https://alchemists.io/policies/code_of_conduct
Site and all projects adhere to this now.
Interesting sleuthing by JP Camara on use of Ruby's `/o` regular expression modifier: https://jpcamara.com/2025/08/02/the-o-in-ruby-regex.html
💡 RuboCop will catch this too: https://docs.rubocop.org/rubocop-performance/cops_performance.html#performanceconstantregexp
The article includes a dive into instruction sequences with use of the `once` instruction which was new to me both in terms of the `\o` modifier but also in relation to the `END` keyword.
I have written about the `END` keyword before (https://alchemists.io/articles/ruby_keywords#_end) but was fascinating to learn how all this works internally.
Your code using the /o modifier Source: wikipedia Hi there! Do you like Regex? Do you like performance? Do you like creating confounding bugs for yourself rooted in the mechanics of the Ruby VM itself? If you said yes to all of the above, have I got a feature for you! But first, let’s start with a story. The cliffs of insanity I was recently reviewing some code, and part of the functionality was about matching.
Exciting, Benoit Daloze has been working on improving Pathname performance and also converting more code from C to pure Ruby: https://github.com/ruby/pathname/pull/53
Even better, Pathname looks like it will be part of core Ruby so we don't need the gem anymore.
Big fan of the Pathname object as it's far more superior to File in most cases. Also I have a collections of refinements that make it even better, see here: https://alchemists.io/projects/refinements#_pathname
TRMNL X is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0wQ8gCxCvw
10.3” diagonal, high density, 1872x1404 resolution, 16 grayscale, refresh in under 200ms.
Lots to like about this new model.
Released Terminus 0.19.0 yesterday: https://github.com/usetrmnl/byos_hanami.
Excited to have playlists and better screen management in play. Was a ton of work and there's still a lot more to do but happy to have this in place.
I use this app daily to manage my e-ink devices so also helps that I can think deeply about what works, what doesn't, and where to go next.
Excited for what's next, especially as we roll out support larger e-ink displays. 🎉
Neat that Nine Inch Nails (instead of only Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) are scoring the upcoming Tron: Ares film: https://pitchfork.com/news/nine-inch-nails-to-score-new-tron-movie.
Going to be a much different and industrial vibe than the previous film (not discounting Daft Punk's work as their soundtrack is favorite of mine -- including the r3conf1gur3d version) so looking forward to hearing this.
I continue to push what's possible with native HTML/CSS and PWA's in general. I think JavaScript (especially React) and Tailwind (more here: https://colton.dev/blog/tailwind-is-the-worst-of-all-worlds) have made for a terrible developer experience and want to get as far away from this as possible (plus, let's reduce the bloat and improve page performance).
Responsive video also fits in this mindset (let's get away from Google!) and like that more people are writing about this: https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/responsive-video-easy
Was must not forget the horrors of what happened to Emmet Till: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-25-2025
...but now with the Big Terrible Bill, that has passed, and more money flooding into ICE, militarized police, etc we can already see this awful mentality creep up again.
