Tim Riley

@timriley
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Rubyist. Dedicated OSS contributor. Core team at Hanami, dry-rb, rom-rb. Principal Engineer at Buildkite.
Canberra, Australia
Homepagehttps://timriley.info/

Moving my account over to https://ruby.social/@timriley.

The Ruby community is home to me ❤️

This pair of futuristic jazz/synth albums from “The Comet is Coming” has been getting a heavy run lately:

https://music.apple.com/au/album/trust-in-the-lifeforce-of-the-deep-mystery/1449207816

https://music.apple.com/au/album/the-afterlife/1477362453

So good! #music

‎Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery by The Comet Is Coming

‎Album · 2019 · 9 Songs

Never not awestruck by the beauty of Therion’s #music
Spent a good couple of hours barking up the wrong tree because I hadn't realised I needed to call Rake::Task["my:task"].reenable in between unit tests. #ruby
Rubocop defaults are so counterproductive.
Huge if true
Why did I not get out my noise cancelling headphones on WFH days earlier?!

Been working on a subsystem of this app that needs to process millions of background jobs a day.

Initially I was using the same (Postgres-backed) background jobs queue for this as the other more general parts of the app, but it was getting SLOOOW.

Today I finally switched this subsystem to Sidekiq and it has immediately made everything so much better!

Thanks @mperham for a wonderful tool!

#ruby

Stuck on this old, slow, pixel-y 11" MacBook Air while my MBP gets a top case replacement.

There's not a lot to love, but gosh it feels good to hammer away at the keyboard without worry.

Metroid Fusion is unbelievably tense and engrossing. What a great game!