Mastodawn

Nitin Dec 23, 2023

Why does nobody talk about #cloudinit ? No, it isn’t “that thing Amazon developed for EC2”. Canonical created it for Ubuntu and then made it available for other Linux distros. It isn’t as popular as Ansible/Puppet/Chef but it initializes tons of developer EC2 VMs every day (because devs are the folk who terminate instances after running them briefly; ops folk keep instances running almost forever).

Nitin Nov 2, 2023

Eclipse Foundation Nov 2, 2023

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Nitin Nov 2, 2023

Is not-having-Ruby-installed-by-default bothersome when building scripts for Linux/MacOS automation? I lean more toward bash scripts, and then Python, because they are available out-of-the-box on most Linux distributions. Even NodeJS, despite its popularity, isn’t usually preinstalled. #Ruby

Nitin Aug 14, 2023

Somebody needs to build e-scooters with more than 2 wheels because not everyone can balance on 2 wheels #environment #startupidea

Nitin Aug 5, 2023

Advice that I give to someone new to #rails is to use an authentication gem and a pagination gem - either Clearance or Devise for authentication and Kaminari for pagination. Would you recommend anything else to a beginner?

Nitin Jul 28, 2023

#Rubyconf is being held at the Hyatt Regency in Pune, India, on August 26 & 27, 2023.

Nitin Jul 12, 2023

Look at what we have here. The #ruby container image is based on #Debian. And we still have "apt".

Nitin Mar 2, 2023

#Ruby 2.7 will be EOL-ed at the end of the month:
https://endoflife.date/ruby

AWS hasn't deprecated the Ruby 2.7 runtime yet on Lambda, so perhaps someone with a dependency on v2.7 can move there?
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-runtimes.html

Ruby

Check end-of-life, release policy and support schedule for Ruby.

endoflife.date

Nitin Feb 25, 2023

I tried building a grep (or egrep?) clone in #Ruby http://bloglessness.pockettheories.com/posts/grep-in-ruby/ (source code only)

Grep in Ruby

Here’s an attempt at building a grep-alternative in Ruby… #!/usr/bin/env ruby # # Author: Katkam Nitin Reddy # Email: <[email protected]> # Date: 2023-02-08 # Description: Replacement for grep with support for lookahead/lookbehind # require 'optparse' require 'colorize' def process(options) input = File.read options[:inputfile] unless options[:inputfile]=='-' input = ARGF.read if options[:inputfile]=='-' # input = STDIN.gets if options[:inputfile]=='-' # This returns only 1 line, so we use ARGF.read instead input.each_line do |iter_line| if not (mat = iter_line.

Nitin Feb 20, 2023

Why Mac OS switched from bash to zsh as the default shell: http://bloglessness.pockettheories.com/posts/why-macos-changed-from-bash-to-zsh/

Why MacOS Changed the Default Shell From bash to zsh

If you are familiar with older versions of MacOS, when MacBooks still had Intel CPUs, touchbars, and thick bezels, the default shell providing a command line interface was bash. The version of the bash shell that MacOS provides is version 3.2, which is from the year 2006. The older versions of the bash shell was distributed under the GNU GPL v2 license, and Apple was perfectly happy to comply with the terms of the license when bundling it with MacOS.