I am going through the SICP program, which uses Scheme for the lessons, and I had a fun time working on the exercise below 🤓

Amazing summary from @klaszus.bsky.social about Calgary's city budget wrap up www.sprawlcalgary.com/calgarys-new...

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

Faker v3.5.3 is live: github.com/faker-ruby/f... Check out our new README :)

Useful trick when you want to share a #ruby snippet, get feedback, etc: You can write the tests in the same file as your code. The code works as expected, and running it by its file name executes the tests (`ruby greet.rb`, in this case). Got it from @skillstopractice.com's Ruby Best Practices :)

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

Our next Kind Fork Faction's meetup is on December 10th 🍪👩‍🎨 #yycvegan www.eventbrite.ca/e/vegan-ging...

This explains why this provincial government attacks minorities: to distract us from their real harm. What the hell. notwotier.ca

Only one spot left for this Saturday's board game night 🎲 #yycvegan www.eventbrite.ca/e/vegan-meet...

"How did I never hear about this book before?" My favourite part of reading books is how I end up adding 2-3 books to my reading list <3

And this is a friendly reminder to donate your pumpkins to an animal sanctuary! If you're in Calgary, volunteers will drop off them this Saturday morning and afternoon to the Alice Sanctuary: www.thealicesanctuary.ca Reach out if you want to donate yours I can connect you with the volunteers 🌱🎃

Testing a new rear light for tomorrow's @criticalmassyyc.bsky.social 🎃 #yycbike

INTENSE IRRITATION

oh yeah, it's the "sweat armpits, cold hands" season

Imagine if I had written this after reading Hyperion 📚 www.stefannibrasil.me/posts/notes/...

It's fun to be caffeine-free :D www.stefannibrasil.me/posts/notes/...

A fun conversation getting to my improv class where a friend asked me: - "wow, you're so brave riding your bike!" - "hum, why?" - "well, downtown is so busy at this time" - "well, that's true if you're driving a car which I am not 😅. The bike lanes are great" - "you're still brave!" 😆

Currently reading Hyperion and wow, I missed getting addicted to a good well written story.

Today is @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social's 8th birthday!! Hard to believe. We've come a long way since 2017... www.sprawlcalgary.com/sprawl-birth...

Almost one year ago, I started moving away from Google. It's finally done: deleted my Google account. Saying goodbye to tech evil (no more Amazon, Twitter, Goodreads, WhatsApp, etc.). It's a bit hard to do this completely because the list keeps increasing constantly 🫠 but doing my best.

I haven’t seen it illustrated like this before. Very effective messaging. Of course it actually depends a lot on how fast the vehicle’s being driven, how big the vehicle is and how it’s designed, and how small the victims (too often kids) are. Via @yegbike.bsky.social #SpeedKills #CarBloat

Im creating an open source UI library for Rails (using Phlex, my gem Vident & daisyUI/Tailwind). It's rough but I'm using it to build something so fixing/refactoring as I go. If your interested, keep an eye on github.com/stevegeek/de... & the previews are here yoe4v.hatchboxapp.com/lookbook

“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more cars stuck in the same congestion. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com

Looking to give away some tickets for brightonruby.com purchased by kind folks in the community in the name of Noah Gibbs. Please share with folks (in education or out of work in early career) who would qualify. Will contact folks by Wed 5th June. forms.reform.app/goodscary/b...

New profile pic :) My rocky and I have been together for more than 6 years now. Going to places I never imagined I would bring her to 😍

Just found out this Active transportation document from the Canadian government www.canada.ca/en/public-he... 👀

Getting back to writing. Found inspiration for the ending after reading a book this weekend: www.stefannibrasil.me/posts/a-shor...

The main reason why I never offload cognitive thinking to LLMs is that frictiontless output is a pernicious trap. Seems smart, but long term it's you who becomes replaceable. If the use case is to speed up useless work, it's a sign to change your life, not how you produce something to the society.

"This is the economy now. Not a distribution of opportunity. A redistribution of friction. But friction isn’t the enemy!!!! It’s information. It tells us where things are straining and where care is needed and where attention should go." kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...

I'm excited to finally drop this: After 20 years of bike commuting, a book, and a YouTube channel, I've compiled everything I've learned about urban cycling into a course to help people overcome the barriers to making the bike a bigger part of their lives. shiftercourses.thinkific.com

Rails Tip: `rails routes --expanded`: If you can never find the controller#action being called by a route, expanded routes can help!

Over the past few months, I decided to "retire" from online community work. My interests have changed a lot and I decided to direct that focus into building meaningful and local connections with my community. I am now participating more in local communities and it's making me happier.

So Happy to share that I was able to pre-order this at my local independent book store :)

If you haven't gotten a copy yet, do it now. The exercises are really fun and engaging, and you learn a ton. If you need financial help to get a copy, reach out to me (contact in my blog) and I will be happy to help (limited capacity but happy to help as I can!).

"Systems should limit complexity and be based on standards and training". Very interesting quote I stumbled across when watching this video rescue training for ski patrol professionals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPWa... I always like to remember how software problems are not software-exclusive.

My team is hiring a Senior Rails/React dev job-boards.greenhouse.io/kit/jobs/469... :)

Two perf dataviz patterns: 1. Compare vs last week's data. Timeshifting eliminates day/night and day-of-week based traffic patterns/noise. 2. Graph "% change versus last week" (a/b*100). Look at how much noise you remove when you combine both.

Free sample of my "Bug Hunt : Volume 1" guidebook is now live. Check it out here: bh-1.skillstopractice.com (10 of 56 exercises included) Please preorder if you expect the full guide will be useful to you after trying the sample. Much more to say on all this, but for now, happy hunting!

As much as hate and division hurts us all, I am so inspired by how Canadians are getting united <3 Besides shopping local and not going to the US, I cancelled Spotify, Lyft, and will soon delete Whatsapp. It's a a new phase that I started last year www.stefannibrasil.me/posts/notes/...

Yes! Do what you can, support local businesses, be more involved in your community.

It’s easy to forget that just because it has always been this way, it doesn’t mean it has to continue so.

I am usually excited to learn things and embrace getting frustrated BUT DO NOT ENJOY CONFIGURING OR INSTALLING ANYTHING. I can not ever work with infra or devops for that reason xD

Kitchen Nightmares is a great example of how you can have a big team, even with great people there, but without a leader who knows what they are doing, and jumps in to support the team, your business will suffer.

Here's a timeline cleanser for you and your soul. Latest cycling video from yours truly: youtu.be/5w9CrKyulaY

@pattywiens.bsky.social que legal saber que voce eh brasileira! Ouvi uma entrevista sua no Bike Talk ou falaram sobre seu trabalho como Winnipeg’s First Bicycle Mayor :) Eu comecei a andar de bike na neve e estou gostando. Minha tolerancia eh perto de -10C. Adoro seu trabalho :)

There's something about naming a chunk of information as "data" in a codebase that triggers me off. If you're manipulating it, you have a sense of what kind of "data" it is. Why not call it what it is?

Just finished reading my 3rd book of 2025: "Moonwalking with Einstein", by Joshua Foer. Such a vivid, inspiring and fun read 🤓 Loved knowing that the author got to get tested by K. Anders Ericsson. And to get reminded how our memory is far more important than we give credit for.

Testing JavaScript used to take so much time (and frustration) out of me but now it's part of my day. It all started with a Node upgrade project. The results? A RailsConf 2024: "From RSpec to Jest: JavaScript Testing for Rails devs". Check it out here: hexdevs.com/posts/railsc...

Starting a new role this week as a Senior dev at kit.com 🎉 Had more than one month off in between jobs to reset, so feeling super excited to start the year with a new challenge. If you're using Kit, and want to chat more about your experience, let me know!