Paul H

@foxpaul
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Rails, Ruby and whatever else.

I listen to old conference keynotes while working on RubyVideo.

Today I listened to @matz's @rubyconf 2015 keynote and he talks about the lonely operator (&.) introduced in Ruby 2.3.

TIL why it's called the "Lonely operator" and I think it's actually quite funny:

10 days to the first Haggis Ruby conference, and the sun is out. Speaking of golden things, this conference would not be possible without the support of Freeagent, our Gold sponsor for the event.

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Gone into extension hyperdrive https://achris.me/posts/setup-ruby-vscode/
Best Visual Studio Code extensions and settings for Ruby and Rails

Best Visual Studio Code extensions and settings to work with Ruby and Ruby on Rails and bring several RubyMine features.

Christian Toscano
choice between code and GUI should be malleable and composable. mockup of hazel data pipeline with interleaved visualizations for direct-manipulation-driven rewriting of the underlying syntax

Started trying out @kaspth's Associated Object gem, and I'm really digging it as a way to organize model logic. I'm only scratching the surface of using it so far, but it's delivering as advertised. https://github.com/kaspth/active_record-associated_object

Was having so much fun, I started a rough generator to make it a little faster, and Kasper already polished it up and created a PR. https://github.com/kaspth/active_record-associated_object/pull/23

#Rails #Generators

GitHub - kaspth/active_record-associated_object: Extract Collaborator Objects from your Active Records, a new concept called Associated Objects

Extract Collaborator Objects from your Active Records, a new concept called Associated Objects - kaspth/active_record-associated_object

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JoannaStern (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image The time has come for me to chime in on this whole AI gadget craze. Two new gadgets aren’t worth your money. One absolutely is. Here it is, my take on what Humane, Rabbit and Meta are doing to free us from smartphones: 🆕 COLUMN: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/the-ai-gadget-that-can-make-your-life-betterand-two-that-definitely-wont-c51f49f0?st=a458i34feop0n13&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink 🆕 VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhzno-IjuiY

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Heat Death of the Internet - takahē

You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app the prices are different again. You ring

takahē -
🧙 This is massive
The Future of MySQL is PostgreSQL:
Today, at Postgres Conference 2024, we introduced a PostgreSQL extension we are developing, which enables MySQL applications to run on PostgreSQL without any code changes by supporting the MySQL wire protocol, SQL syntax, and procedural language.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40094160
https://nextgres.com/res/20240419-The-Future-of-MySQL-is-Postgres.pdf (edited)
Postgres is on the rise. MySQL is in decline. But there are a helluva lot of MyS... | Hacker News

We enabled YJIT on GitHub.com today (we've been running on Ruby 3.3 since Jan 4th). We'd been waiting for the new memory limit behaviour and it's working great for us. We're seeing a 15-25% improvement in request latency.
GitHub - wouterken/crystalruby: Embed Crystal code directly in Ruby

Embed Crystal code directly in Ruby. Contribute to wouterken/crystalruby development by creating an account on GitHub.

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