Dear any GitHub friends, Small design system size/alignment bug on repo show page when window is narrow (~1300px wide)

Is there a fan edit of The Matrix movies? One that cuts down/out the bullshit?

I'm taking Seattle.rb #Ruby style to logical extremes: class Issue # … def genres = split_comma_separated @genre def characters = split_comma_separated @character # … end (looks better in mono width font)

@claude.altq.net What's 3 + 4?

I love that #Ruby people care about linguistics, ergonomics, and aesthetics so much that we get things like this in RSpec: expect(thing).to be_a String expect(things).to be_an Array .be_a and .be_an are aliases Either works, and allows for good grammar!

In my exploration of the coding agent thingies, I've found this to be really useful expectation setting: AGENT.md: - respond tersely, not verbosely - say as little as possible - do not make git commits - when you are done, write a one-line summary for me to use as commit message

"Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley is actually (still) a total banger 🎶 youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Life is interesting protons interested in photons

✅ Clean the gutters ✅ Put garden hoses in the basement ✅ Add winter covers to spigots ✅ Turn off water to spigots Homeowner things!

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Aaron Sorkin's TV/movies are about the inside baseball of… politics: West Wing comedy: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip sports: Moneyball news: Newsroom sports news: Sports Night website/lawsuit: The Social Netork Proposal for the next one— the ongoing live production at a sport team's home turf

Days until someone shows up with a trebuchet (or water balloon launcher) and launches a whole menu of sandwiches at a line of gestapo Pinkertons…? youtu.be/7oI2HPutucw

"Prepare, prepare" —William Blake

I've inherited a #Rails repo. Tests pass for previous dev. A lot fail for me. let!(:x) { Fabricate(:y) } ❌ FAIL x.a # => true x.a = false x.a # => true ✅ FAIL z = x.dup z.a # => true z.a = false z.a # => false Any obvious ideas? --- Rails 7 Ruby 3.2 RSpec 3.12 Fabrication 2.30

You know in that opening scene of The Newsroom, in Will McAvoy's (Jeff Daniels) tirade, he says both: "so goddamn always" "star-bangled awesome" which have the same… what's the word… scansion? meter? musicality? I like that kind of thing

A tiny border dispute between two small farms, told with the same visual language as WWII documentary with shifting territorial colors, borders, and alliances An absolutely riveting two and half minutes (better at 2x speed!) youtube.com/watch?v=0CQhBN9vqtw

Ok, (American) football fans, baseball time is over for a few months. You have the conn. Basketball people are first mate? I don't know this works.

Gentle pedantic reminder, friends: h1,h2,h3,h4,h5, and h6 tags are headINGs, not headERs <3 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d...

As is my twice annual tradition, I learned that daylight savings time happened in some direction. * — I grew up Indiana when the state didn't do the saving of daylight time. So I don't have the muscle memory and I refuse to learn how it even works. Moreover, DST must be destroyed

TIL: CodeEdit An open source text editor, built native with SwiftUI for macOS only. Work still in progress, but I'm excited to see where it goes! codeedit.app

History books call it a massacre when British troops killed five people in Boston 1770 What will history books call what ICE is doing now? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_...

"Photons are always emitting and absorbing in the universe, right?" — Nathaniel Hawthorne, probably

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Oh, to be in Los Angeles tonight… Have fun, LA friends! Love this for you. 💙

Do you read comics on a computer? .cbz, .cbr, .cbt, .cb7, .cba I'm building a bit of comic book tooling for myself. I'd like to chat about what, if anything, you'd want from .cb* tools. First #Ruby gems and CLI. Later, macOS app. There's probably no business model here. I just want it for myself.

It was nice when Sesame Street added Julia, but it's nonsense to claim she was their first autistic character. You've got a guy who collects paperclips and another who has to count everything

do folks have any idea how much cops cost?! it would be less expensive to just feed people.

All other things in this article aside… - It's not illegal to "curse" - It's also not illegal to make "derogatory comments" toward police - Hurting their feelings isn't illegal 🙃 An article that simply repeats that part of a police report is a just police press release www.wired.com/story/nancy-m

More mealy-mouth PR corporate speak non-answers to two (2) questions… IMO, trust is completely lost. The only way to get it back is for everyone to resign, replaced by community voted elections, open to anyone to nominate and run.

My favorite things about the government shutdown: no one has to pay taxes; cops aren't working; military evacuated foreign bases; ICE is paused; prisons opened; borders are unmonitored; dragenet state surveillance is disabled; NSA data centers are powered down… bc government is shut down, right?

TIL in #Ruby #RSpec, this: expect(File.exist?(old_file)).to be true can be shortened to this: expect(File).to exist(old_file) expect(File).to exist old_file Neat!

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Happy International Animation Day. asifa.net/what-we-do/i... (🡇 from "The Animator's Survival Kit" by the late Richard Williams)

In three days, I'm fucked Like, lose my house fucked

I think that one of the knock-on effects of this #Ruby land moment is that people will be more reticent to add other people as GitHub org admins/owners, until GitHub adds double approval on org owner changes

TIL: Wubular github.com/RubyElders/wubular > Wubular is a modern re-imagining of Rubular, built with Ruby compiled to WebAssembly. > It lets you compose and test Ruby regular expressions directly in your browser — no backend server required.

Some of my favorite Ruby gems are: - HTTP.rb - Down Some of my favorite Ruby jims are: - Jim Remsik - Jim Weirich (RIP)

Good point I hadn't thought of: Gems themselves have Gemfiles that specify `source: rubygems . org` Is there a config that I can set in my gem/Bundler config to override that and always use a local cache/server? re: status.pointless.one/@pointle...

Hare brained thought question: am I able/allowed to easily* download all of RubyGems (index and all versions of all gems)? And set some Bundler/gem config to always try to install from that local download first? If it's only a terabyte to two, that's not too big *— for some values of easily

This is a new one: record a 2-4 minute video sharing something you've learned recently As part of an application submission Not step 2-n in the process At the start 😭

Timed assignments in the hiring process are bad Unless the job is actually "quick, hack the mainframe before they cut the hard line!" Almost always the job is fundamentally not: learn this whole problem from scratch and completely solve it in 40-60 minutes

The Job Search Has Become a Humiliation Ritual "It Feels Like I'm Just Trying to Make My Robots Talk to Their Robots" www.thecut.com/article/job-se...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This! So much this. Gamergate was a turning point in our recent history. It was definitely the beginning of the end of twitter being what it once was. God forsaken awful fucking gamergate.

Meanwhile in the job search…

it's always funny watching people continue to downplay the state of white collar hiring for (now more than just a few) specific segments when, as an example, this is what people seem to believe counts as a recovery in tech

I love me some #film grain So crunchy, you can chew on it Eat with a fork

Early web days: Personal computers: slow Storage: expensive Home internet: slow "Let's run a webserver under the desk!" Now web days: Personal computers: screaming fast Storage: cheeeeeap Home internet: pretty/really fast "Host everything in tHe cLoUd…" Someone Else's Computer™ as a Service

Hair brain #ruby / #rubygems idea: What would it look like if an upstream `source` was a something something BitTorrent peer-to-peer kind of thing? How would pushing work? How would gem install work? How would `bundle install/update` work? How would client ensure no monkey business from upstream?