I've been job hunting full time for 2 weeks now. It's exhausting! If you know of any place looking for a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, I have 15 years experience working with Ruby, Rails, and Javascript. More recently the Node.js stuff has been in React. I'm also interested in Rust, Go, and Elixir. Any leads are appreciated!! #ruby#rails#rubyonrails#RubyHire#fedihire#getfedihired
The developer of LastLogin.io has implemented FedCM on his end, but he needs the help of a Discourse plugin developer to test the complete login pipeline with his own community forum.
If I had a two pence piece for every time @andycroll's One Ruby Thing acted as my second brain, I'd be able to spend all day in a Brighton arcade on the 2p machines.
The next #meetup is this Thursday at New Relic. I will be away at #RubyKaigi but I'm so thrilled to see the new organizers making this happen monthly! We already have host companies offering space for the future events.
This year, @rubycentral announced that 2025 will be the last @railsconf. While I’m sad to lose a favorite Ruby conference, it’s for the best. The Ruby Central team will be able to focus on their core mission: supporting the Ruby language.
Ever find a tutorial that was broken is some subtle but deeply fundamental way?
Ever WRITE a tutorial that was broken in some subtle but deeply fundmental way?
I just released RunDOC 2.0. A tool for writing tutorials that run and embed the results into a markdown document. Check it out https://github.com/zombocom/rundoc
Current status: I opened about 100 links to articles and threads from Google results comparing #ruby, #golang and #rustlang and I'm planning to read them 🫠
(no, I'm not really considering Go, mostly just trying to convince myself that I'm not making a mistake starting to learn Rust and not Go 🦀😛)
@alexanderadam@CrystalLanguage Yeah, I've mostly ruled out Go from the beginning, I was just checking it out out of curiosity because the folks at Bluesky are using it for some more performance-critical server stuff (vs. Node/TypeScript that other stuff is written in).
(But I've just seen someone from the team post yesterday that it was using a lot of memory and spending most of the time on GC…)
@alexanderadam@CrystalLanguage I guess… I was already thinking about building a couple of pieces independently in Ruby and Rust and compare the performance on something larger than one function… I suppose I could try to throw in Crystal to the mix too 😅
It's so annoying to see developers calling failing tests "flaky".
Last week I found a factory that assigned a random age to a user instance, so no wonder a test that used the age in some bit of logic failed sometimes. That's not a "flaky test", that's a bug in the factory.
Today I saw a date parser bug be called a "flaky test". It was written on the 21st of April and worked fine until it began to fail today, the 1st of May.
@zenspider@gd inability to repro definitely adds a dimension of difficulty. In some ways I found "briefly hidden" flaky test bugs more frustrating because they were fairly easy to reproduce, but led people to just rerun the tests a few times until they pass, rather than fix the underlying bugs.
"Tests provide the only reliable documentation of design. The story they tell remains true long after paper documents become obsolete and human memory fails. Write your tests as if you expect your future self to have amnesia. Remember that you will forget; write tests that remind you of the story once you have." (Sandi Metz, "Practical Object-Oriented Design")