Robert

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Freelance software developer. Working with Ruby and other ruby-flavored languages
GitHubhttps://github.com/fnordfish
RobertMar 10
alexanderadamMar 10

You're looking for something that's readable but more efficient and smaller than #JSON or #YAML?
Structure data with #ASCII control codes like people did in 1963!

https://trans.github.io/c0data/

There's also a library in @CrystalLanguage available.

#crystallang #crystallanguage

C0DATA — Structure Data with Control Codes

RobertMar 9
Days since last bitten by Ruby String vs. Symbols: 0
RobertFeb 28
BrookeFeb 26

I've just published a reference for anyone using git while trans, explaining how to hide or remove your deadname in git repositories

Please share ❤️

https://code.curly.kiwi/2026/02/27/using-git-while-trans/

Using git while trans | Brooke's code blog

A guide for hiding or removing your deadname in git repositories.

RobertFeb 14
Eric A. MeyerFeb 13
I saw yet another “CSS is a massively bloated mess” whine and I’m like. My dude. My brother in Chromium. It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some *respect* on its *name*.
RobertFeb 13
Hey frontend focused developer people. How do you deal with testing support for very old browsers?
I *need* to support certain functions on your uncles G4 iMac.
Is there a convenient way to restrict my browser to an older feature set?
RobertFeb 12
Is @rubygems search index broken for everyone, or just me?
RobertFeb 6
Matt WeagleFeb 4

There are two problems in computer science:

1. We could do this better
2. We should not do this at all

RobertFeb 6
Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺Feb 6

PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.

RobertFeb 6
Show threadAndreeaFeb 3

In 2025, Big Tech—just ten major companies—spent €49 million lobbying Brussels. That’s more than pharma, finance, and automotive combined.

Google funds all sixteen major European think tanks shaping EU policy. Not *some* of them. All of them. Amazon and Meta fund most of the rest.

This is no longer “poor old me, I need a bit of help,” this is full regulatory capture. With a view to becoming even more embedded into businesses and governments, and getting whatever favorable legislation passed or diluted to suit them.

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-record-levels

RobertFeb 3
Adrianna TanFeb 3
Some dudes would rather clean up documentation for AI agents than make documentation easier to read for everyone, such as people