Whenever I've screwed up and created a folder called ~ inside my local directory, I always jump across to the Finder to delete it from there. Totally bypasses any issue trying to run `rm -r \~` and fucking up the escaping.

Rubyists! I am reviving Ruby Inside after 12 years of hiatus. I have too many Ruby things I want to blog about :-) So far I've got the archive up and running at rubyinside.com/archives/ - it's a bit of a Ruby time capsule..

I got curious to query the monthly word count of Lobsters comments. Average is 618k, or roughly 10 nonfiction books per month.

OH: “I wouldn’t put the ice cream in the pizza oven, obviously”

Apparently I've read one too many, "I think this is AI slop" comments against a useful/thought provoking post recently and can't bite my tongue anymore. What's the point in nitpicking everything you ever read now? Given slop is based on averages, won't the average writing sound like it? Tiresome.

Apparently somebody just built us a new marketing site... 🙏 justfuckingusetailscale.com

Modern hell is other people watching short form videos loudly without headphones in public settings.

Trying out Apple Vision Pro travel mode in the car for the first time (from the passenger seat). 30 seconds in was rather disconcerting to see a bus appearing from behind Safari. Brain can't handle the disconnect of immersive environment but otherwise seems fine.

This is were it went from a read that is S-Tier to whatever is past S-Tier

Back in Cracow 🇵🇱 after 8 years away, wandering through the city to get to my apartment very much felt like catching up with an old friend. Looking forward to exploring and then https://www.rubycommunityconference.com/ later in the week.

Left my coat on the chair in the pub to keep my table whilst I went to the bar, only to realised I’d left my AirPods in the coat pocket. Trackable, but valuable. Then remembered the coat retails for nearly the cost of the headphones. Gotta love an eBay bargain.

Crossing the Welsh border hardly registers as an event in my head, yet crossing the Scottish border is worth pointing at the sign and shouting SCOTLAND every time. (with a terrible impression of an accent of course.)

When installing a hardwired dashcam (Garmin in this case), it's worth opening the control box on the cable and moving the jumper from 12v to 12.3v. Stops the dashcam potentially draining the battery too low.

Dropped the BMW Z4 into Birds Auto this week to get a Quaife LSD fitted, replacing the factory open diff. Lovely group of people, well looked after and proper car nuts. Wish I'd replaced the diff earlier if anything, makes such a nice difference to the drivability of the car. Love it.

If you're looking to put Solid Queue into your Rails app, you **really** want to put it in a separate database from the start. Even if that database is on the same database server to start with so it doesn't cost you more. Moving it to another database later without downtime/dataloss is _tedious_

Just sticking Lord of the Rings on and notice it’s a “Wingnut Production” The chances that Beatles obsessive Peter Jackson named his film company that because he’s a Wings nut isn’t zero

I do love it when I have an idea or annoyance about a piece of software, go to open a ticket about it and discover someone had the same idea *and* fixed it last week. Perfecto.

I like this take on how to get promoted. My experience has been that promotions come from finding and doing important work. Being spoon-fed is fine for juniors but a negative signal for those seeking e.g. staff+ promotions.

Today’s trip from the West Midlands to Essex bizarrely involves flying to Belfast then on to London City to catch a lift. Obviously driving would be simplest, but I can’t take a car.

Realised I've been wearing headphones for some time, listening to music playing. Playing from the HomePod on my desk it turns out. Transparency mode on the headphones is good enough I didn't immediately notice, which is both impressive and irritating.

Given a class object `klass`, it is not uncommon to see klass.to_s to get its name. However, that is unnecessarily indirect. If you want the class name, just ask for it! klass.name That is more concise/intentional.

If you've ever run `jj jj …` by accident, do I have the alias for you. https://caiustheory.com/jj-jj-jj-jj-jj/ #jj #jujutsu

I have released Zeitwerk 2.7.4. It improves the performance of some validation logic. This may be measurable in large apps with ignored directories and lots of autoload paths. In Gusto's main application (+20 autoloaders, ~2000 autoload paths), the patch saves 800 ms of boot time.

One day I will remember trying to use iPhone Mirroring whilst using the phone's hotspot will both kill the hotspot and fail to mirror. Today is not that day.

I estimate the average British driver wastes 5% of their memory on where numerous potholes are and the best way to approach and avoid them.

iPhone Pocket would also solve an issue for Vision Pro users, how to carry the battery hands-free when you don't have a handy pocket available.

Currently editing a commit in the middle of a series of commits using jj, wanted to inject a new commit between the current one and the next (newer) one. @ references the current commit, and @- references the parent. Pondered for two seconds, then tried @+ to reference the next commit. Worked. 🎉

Having Claude as a nickname when I was teenager makes it a real mindfuck these days listening to people discussing the LLM/agent. "Claude fucked this thing up" - Uh, wasn't me. "Claude fixed this thing" - Woohoo, oh wait, still not me!

Going for a wee in the rear toilet of a Boeing 737-800 during turbulence is oddly similar to doing the same on a yacht in a decent sea. Talk about transferable life skills.

Tailscale quietly sits there and makes life easier, this time by allowing me to head to the pub with a new iPad/keyboard and SSH back into the homelab real easily. No more needing to generate SSH keys and ensure its been added to the authorised keys everywhere first.

Didn't really wear my wedding ring for the first year of marriage. Started wearing it the second year, then put it down somewhere safe in the house and now can't find it. Bought some silicon rings to wear temporarily, have now misplaced one of those in a safe place as well. Oops.

Friday!

Ended up with an iPad (again), and figured I’d try bringing it to the pub to do some admin on. Paired it with the NuPhy Air75 as I picked up the carry case/stand with it. Feels weird typing on a (admittedly quiet) mechanical keyboard in the pub.

Having now worked on the car with my head in a wheel arch using a dak dak (impact driver), can confirm the AirPods Pro 3 with the noise protection mode turned on are absolutely magical. I can still hear everything around me, but the loud UGGA DUGGA noise is stepped down instantly. Well happy.

Totally unscientific, but both my keyboard & 3d printer are filtered out better by AirPods Pro 3 than either AirPods Pro 2 or AirPods Max. Looking forward to having them on an airplane (not looking forward to the fact that's over a month away.)

Due a terrible admin error, I have had a monthly column in evo for 22 years and no one has remembered to stop me. So, to celebrate this mistake, I've compiled a load of them into a new book. It's called Petrolhead and it's out on Thursday 9 October.

Ordering something on a whim, and not only will it guarantee next day delivery but it'll turn up before lunchtime reliably. Ordering something because I need it, guarantees next day delivery will be a late evening slot and sometimes get slipped to the following day.

Luca - Seeing Red is such a beautiful film about a man who has done so much and has a great outlook on life. And also, shows off Italy brilliantly. First time in an Everyman Cinema as well, suspect I will return. Nice experience.

Vote for me! (please) Our little podcast has been nominated for an award: footballcontentawards.com/bes... We don't do the "loud blokes down the pub" thing that lots of fan podcasts do; we don't make any money off it (well I think we got £20 each last year) so I'd really appreciate your vote #nff

Spent a fortnight on a friend's yacht in Greece. Swam loads, anchored in lovely bays, visited interesting towns/villages/islands. And didn't use my computer for long enough that YouTube signed me out. 💪

HACK THE PLANET

Starting today, the way you will build infrastructure automation is AI Native. You'll prompt the agent, and then System Initiative will get to work building your automation for you in a safe, simulated change set. Come try it - it's so fun. www.systeminit.com/blog/ai-nati...

A note I found stuck to my wall. My kids are (chronologically) adults, you know.

After nearly a decade(!) I've finally worked out how to remember which way round my Apple Watch straps go on.

Pretty sure I talk to myself more wearing Apple Vision Pro than I do when using two screens at my desk. Not sure why. Possibly because I'm "sat" in the Joshua Tree national park rather than in my office, at least as far as my peripheral vision is concerned.

The Hire is such a great series of short films from BMW in the 2000s. They’ve made their way onto YouTube and are worth a watch. “BMW recommends that you always wear your seatbelt”

Just referred to Apple Vision Pro as “iGoggles” and had a slight nostalgia flashback to the 2000s.

Annoyed that my blog (software) is outdated and has bugs, but also updating it is a PITA. Shoved it in the direction of an agent wired up to some LLMs and it did a worse job than my last attempt. Sigh. I wonder if the easy option is to generate a new site from scratch, then copy content in 🤔