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If I divided stuff up by season, this list would be more nuancedhttps://ruby.social/@davetron5000/113906692837319888
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Sometimes I search for difficult-to-find things. It's stressful. To simplify my life and increase my chances of finding something, I'm gonna start looking for the actual literal Holy Grail instead of...
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If you bought https://sustainable-rails.com from Pragmatic Bookshelf, the updates I spoke of earlier should be available to you now.Changelog: https://sustainable-rails.com/changelog.htmlIf you have...
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Got a call from comcast (I don't use them but I manage my parents' account) and they wanted to validate stuff. They sent me a text asking for the code. In case it was phishing, I gave a false code....
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Doing some research about some scuba equipment and was reminded what absolute shitheads people on forums can be. There was a period between the reign of PHPBB and the death of Stack Overflow where I...
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This pathology isn't just "forums" but it's "forums where hobbies are discussed". Reddit has been great for understanding life stuff like appliances, but once you get into hobby land, you get these...
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And the thing is, I've done a ton of scuba diving and never run into anyone being a jerk IRL. People and staff are usually really fucking nice, but at worst, just quiet and polite. There's a part of me...
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I have tried to use the new image playgrounds twice. The first time, I described "Eddie Van Halen and Ronnie James Dio" and got an old lady. The second time I clicked on myself and got an absolutely...
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Cool, the dems are going to the time-honored strategy that totally works and has won elections: SMS spamming the shit out me for money to be used for…I don't know what. WTF is wrong with these...
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I honestly think the continued layoffs in tech are not AI replacing programmers - it's a correction from years of overhiring. I interviewed someone that was a Dir of E at Twitter and they told me that...
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I worked at a startup where the CEO just wanted a big engineering team. So he hired one. No roadmap existed to justify it, and it made everything slower.LivingSocial famously just hired every Ruby...
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At Stitch Fix, the original CTO did not do this. We hired only when there was something that we wanted to do that we couldn't do. But he always had pressure to hire more engineers. For what reason? I...
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I've said previously, but about a year before I left, I would estimate at least a third if not half of the roadmap was utterly pointless work that would not truly help the business. But no idea was...
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I think because hiring engineers is hard (possibly due to self-inflicted hiring processes), VCs/CEOs see big teams as a status symbol. Until now. They are realizing it's a massive cost that doesn't...
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How much would life improve if a) this code was in Ruby stdlib and b) `nil?` was a protocol to control falseyness in an if statement? I can't imagine a single problem this would cause nor any way to...
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OTel's docs are so relentlessly bad (impenetrable specs and oversimplistic examples + out of date API docs) that I had to use ChatGPT to understand how to use it. And, it's answers were mostly correct...
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I don't know if this means that writing good docs is no longer important, or if it's more important than ever. I got more useful info out of 5 minutes with ChatGPT than several hours reading docs,...
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When creating data types in Ruby, I often make a factory method that does 2 things you can't do in an initializer:1 - if the argument is nil, return nil2 - if the argument is already of the data type,...
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It occurs to me that you can override Class.new to do this and make a much cleaner API.Any reason not to do this regularly? Feels weird to return `nil` from a constructor, but it would be darn handy a...
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Been digging into the browser Performance API. It's very clear why a lot of websites are slow and my Just Add More React™ doesn't ring alarm bells. The API is inconsistently supported across browsers...
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