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postmodern, 12 hours ago to random

Occasionally the contrarian DHH gets it right. He finally came to the logical conclusion of just using Linux as a development environment. A bit annoyed he didn't call out macOS for all of the ridiculous hoops you have to jump through to setup a dev env (XCode, iTerm2, homebrew, case insensitive file-systems, etc), where as every Linux distro provides everything via the built-in package manager.
https://world.hey.com/dhh/linux-as-the-new-developer-default-at-37signals-ef0823b7
#yearofthelinuxdesktop #justuselinux #linuxdevenvironment

postmodern, 9 days ago to random

I feel like ruby-core should bring back .tar.bz2 archives. OpenBSD doesn't support xz by default, but almost every *nix based OS supports .bz2.
https://ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/ruby-3-4-0-preview1-released/

postmodern, 1 month ago to javascript

What is the current best solution for testing client-side vanilla JavaScript (ES9)? I'm intentionally not using any fancy frameworks. Just plain old vanilla JavaScript and breaking everything apart into small classes.
http://vanilla-js.com/
#javascript

postmodern, 1 month ago to opensource

PSA: HEADS UP EVERYONE! Another project noticed they were being targeted with similar social engineering tactics as the xz-utils backdoor attack. Be on the lookout for random people demanding that you add someone new as a maintainer for vague but urgent "reasons". Google their emails, check their GitHub/GitLab histories, see if they are on Mastodon/Reddit/"X"/LinkedIn. If they do not have an internet footprint, they are probably a plant.
https://openssf.org/blog/2024/04/15/open-source-security-openssf-and-openjs-foundations-issue-alert-for-social-engineering-takeovers-of-open-source-projects/
#opensource #opensourcesecurity

postmodern, 1 month ago to mechanicalkeyboards

Are there any actual testimonies that using a mechanical keyboard helped with RSI? I can find plenty of blog posts which suggest it helps, but no one who can vouch that it actually did.
#mechanicalkeyboards #rsi

postmodern, 1 month ago to random

Wow https://crystal-lang.org/ looks really nice!
#crystallang

janl, 2 months ago to javascript

Has anyone toyed with distributing “closed source” #JavaScript modules as V8 bytecode? I know you can pre-compile and load bytecode just fine. I also know that to some degree you can turn bytecode back into JS, but is that result useful enough to make the shipping as bytecode a moot point? And are there other options? Can WASM help?

(I know no solution is going to be perfect)

postmodern, 2 months ago to random

Accept that hard things are actually hard. There's a reason why nobody else has solved the same problem your currently working on.

postmodern, 2 months ago to random

Hot Take, but bear with me here. What if, hypothetically speaking, we listened to the opinions of Software Engineers about software and programming, instead of CEOs of tech companies who have a vested interest in hyping up LLMs, attracting more VC money, making their stock go up, or selling more overpriced GPUs? I think the profession which literally contains both the words Software and Engineer might have more experience with the subject.

avdi, 3 months ago to random

INSTALLATION

Installation is super easy. Open your MacOS terminal, and...

INSTALLATION for LINUX

OK first of all fuck you for wanting to install a UNIX command-line tool on a modern UNIX instead of a bastardized BSD from 1990 as Jobs intended. Secondly, please use curl to install a third-party package manager...

postmodern, 3 months ago to random

Say you have some code which tries to recognize the format of some data, then initializes it using another class specifically for that format of data, and that class also performs validation with a complex regex to ensure it's valid data for that class. How would you prevent double-validation? Or should I even care that a string is compared against a complex regex twice?

postmodern, 3 months ago to ruby

How does emscripten/emirb/WASM handle embedding other Ruby libraries, or even C extensions? Would it be possible to precompile a version of emirb with various gems pre-loaded?
https://mame.github.io/emirb/
#ruby #emirb

nixCraft, 4 months ago to random

😂 #php , #python, and #ruby lang comic.

watzon, 4 months ago to typescript

Honestly getting really discouraged by all these layoffs. I had high hopes in the beginning because companies typically do a lot of hiring in Q1, but with big tech companies doing sweeping layoffs again the market is being flooded with highly qualified devs.

That being said, if you need an experienced engineer, I'm here.

#fedihired #jobs #typescript #javascript #vue #crystallang #golang #ruby #python #WillingToLearnRust

postmodern, 4 months ago to random

Rule of Thumb: if lazy loading becomes too complex, fall back to eager loading. Sometimes it's more important to just get the code done, then prematurely hyper-optimize it.

postmodern, 4 months ago to random

Time to update all of the GitHub actions to include ruby 3.3.0. Just spotted this weird bug involving String.new(..., encoding: ...). The ronin-support spec suite keeps paying off.
https://github.com/ronin-rb/ronin-support/actions/runs/7344375314/job/19996142358

postmodern, 5 months ago to ruby

I should do a passionate talk about how Ruby and it's community is still here. So many trolls tried to claim that Ruby was a passing fad, or that I'd pick a new language next week, or that "Ruby is dead". And yet I am still here, we are still here, Ruby, Ruby is still here. We are not going anywhere.
#ruby

postmodern, 5 months ago to ruby

I have added ruby-3.3.0 to the ruby-versions repository so you can now safely install ruby-3.0.0 with ruby-install.

$ sudo ruby-install ruby-3.3.0

#ruby #rubyinstall #ruby_install

postmodern, 5 months ago to ruby

I am really impressed at the scale of the changes in Ruby 3.3.0. Totally brand new parser (Prism). Switching from Bison to Lrama. Tons of YJIT performance improvements. M:N thread scheduler. These are big and methodical changes that one would expect from a mature scripting language. Congratulations to ruby-core and all of the contributors!
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2023/12/25/ruby-3-3-0-released/
#ruby

mackuba, 5 months ago to ruby

Just thinking out loud here, but… what languages can you write #Ruby extensions in apart from C? 🤔 My Apple dev feed service for Bluesky has a 4-digit number of regexps to check now and it takes a while when rescanning millions of posts… it could use some optimizing.

gabek, 5 months ago to random

I respond to VCs about Owncast pretty often, and I’ve never been super transparent about it. So here’s a response I just sent.

postmodern, 5 months ago to random

I wonder if there's some kind of old UNIX rule for which option flags should have capital letters vs. which ones should be lowercase letters? Currently I am second guessing myself whether to use -t or -T for --text.
#cli

burger_jaap, 6 months ago to random

“In sum, there is no denying that women’s path to leadership positions is paved with many barriers including a very thick glass ceiling. But a much bigger problem is the lack of career obstacles for incompetent men [..] The result is a pathological system that rewards men for their incompetence while punishing women for their competence, to everybody’s detriment.”
https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men