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Last weekend we took the ferry to Bainbridge Island to see a Mochi Tsuki event. I read about the history of Japanese immigrants on Bainbridge island. I saw people making mochi, a taiko drummer group, and traditional dances. It was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot. Definitely recommend this event!
I bought a Pixoo64 LED Display to play around with, and I love it! It connects to WiFi and has an on-board HTTP API so you can program it. I made a Ruby client for it that even includes code to convert PNG files to the binary format the sign wants. One cool thing is that the display can be configured to fetch data from a remote server, so I configured mine to fetch PM2.5 and CO2 data for my office.
At RailsWorld earlier this year, I got nerd sniped by someone. They asked “why can’t Bundler be as fast as uv?” Immediately my inner voice said “YA, WHY CAN’T IT BE AS FAST AS UV????” My inner voice likes to shout at me, especially when someone asks a question so obvious I should have thought of it myself. Since then I’ve been thinking about and investigating this problem, going so far as to give a presentation at XO Ruby Portland about Bundler performance. I firmly believe the answer is “Bundler can be as fast as uv” (where “as fast” has a margin of error lol).
Release 1185: Oh god... here we go... (again) IT IS TIME! minitest v6.0.0 (final) has been released!
All the cleanup I've wanted for years is here! cmdline runner! line numbers! Plugins are opt-in by default! It is even (a teeny bit) faster than before!
This one is big. ***DO NOT BLINDLY UPDATE!*** Especially if you use minitest-around or are on rails but not rails edge (there are internal fixes in there).***
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https://www.zenspider.com/releases/2025/12/minitest-version-6-0-0-has-been-released.html
Oh god... here we go... (again) minitest v6.0.0.a.1 has been released!!!
This is an alpha level release in order to get feedback. I'm pretty settled on integrating minitest-sprint's minitest cmdline but less sold on having bisect+server integrated.
Please give me feedback here: https://github.com/minitest/minitest/issues/1040
Well #FediHire, I'm on the market again! 25 year #Ruby / #Rails (and more!) powerhouse looking for employment. Reached 3rd highest contributor at my last gig despite 200k+ commits, 15+ years, and hundreds of developers. Have ~100 gems w/ ~2 billion downloads. You know me.
Loves: languages / runtimes, profiling & optimization, debugging, testing, OSS, etc.
https://www.zenspider.com/ryan/Resume.html
please #boost ❤️
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John Hawthorn