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I’m spending this week with my godmother, who is a 94 year old Holocaust refugee. She says “I didn’t escape Nazi Germany to deal with a country like this. The Nazis were scary, but at least you knew what to expect. This government is worse.”

🎶 get out of that refrigerator right now 🎶

Political something something for thee but not for me. (Or the other way around? I forget.)

Do any other programming languages have an equivalent to predicate methods in #Ruby? .nil? .all? .admin? .complete? .expressive? Or do they all use prefixes? .isNil() .hasAll() .isAdmin? .isComplete? .isExpressive() Namely, "?" qt the end of method name. But also other forms of this concept.

Tired: Resigning because you’re being pressured to do something unethical/illegal Wired: Keeping job and doing nothing. Maybe you protect someone by inaction. Worst case, you get fired. Office space it!

They're making the sunsets transgender!

Eli's coming.

Without cops, who are you gonna get to show up way too late to do anything, scold and disrespect you, and write a meaningless report? Ok, fine, other than Democrats

I expect that TipTop will go the way of Tumblr if the US owns it

The aughts and teens when bands had like ten members all screaming along like their lives depended on it youtu.be/istKHses8MU

TIL: Lean is an open-source programming language and proof assistant that enables correct, maintainable, and formally verified code lean-lang.org

I love art I love math youtube.com/watch?v=_BrFKp-U8GI

Posts from me are like - it's hard not to be romantic about baseball - state is bad, hulk smash it up - ruby is good and weird, how do i… Hope you didn't sign up for a single issue newsletter! (Esp not one about vegan or straightedge) 😬

If you want some prior art for what happens when government starts calling people “domestic terrorists”… 
Look at the animal and earth liberation movements in the 1990s/2000s
 Before that, the black liberation, antiwar and women's liberation movements, … in the 1960s/1970s 
See also: COINTELPRO

How do you pronounce "antifa"? Ann tee fah? Ann tee fuh? Ann tEEfuh? Me… I pronounce it "ann ty fash ist"

There's not much more in this world that I love as much as the Chicago Cubs playing baseball in October 💙 youtube.com/watch?v=X2dd6y3wwt8 First time since 2020 November Cubs baseball is exceedingly rare. The last time was 2016 Game 7, the actual best game of baseball ever

One person does not make a baseball team, but I sometimes wonder what the 2017+ Cubs could've had Dexter Fowler still been there The core of Rizzo/Bryant/Baez/etc and pitching were still there, but Dex was kind of the glue

About a decade ago, I flirted with the idea of trying to write a book called "Using Ruby as a Pattern Language" Writing a book is, of course, a massive task, so most people (like me!) don't do it. But, some days (like today!) I wish I had.

I'm always surprised when #Ruby doesn't have an antonym method for a predicate method. [].empty? #=> true ![].empty? #=> false ——— I know of [].any? But that's not what I'd expect as an opposite of `empty?` I understand why #Rails have `.present?` and `.blank?` Am I missing something in Ruby?

> Excellent point! Using regex to validate XML/SVG structure is fragile and error-prone. Nokogiri is much more robust for parsing and validating XML/SVG content. Let me update all the regex matchers to use Nokogiri. > > First, let me add Nokogiri to the Gemfile: —🤖

Aside from the obvious musical/physical comedy of this bit, what I love is that he tells you how the joke is gonna go… and it's still funnier and funnier as it goes youtube.com/watch?v=-JCfohAGRQ0

You're watching the death of democracy in real time. Fascism isn't coming, it is here. If you survive it, you will be forever asked by future generations what you did in these moments. Were you speaking out against it or quietly hoping it will just go away on its own.

I'm really hoping that today's macOS updates just magically fix my double sided printing problem

TypePad is closing down at the end of the month and Phil Gyford has shared the process for downloading a TypePad blog (so that you can turn it into “a pretty self-contained ‘static HTML’ site”). [gyford.com]

Please get off of substack so I and many others can subscribe to your writing, boost your links, etc. I don’t get on mailing lists run by white supremacist platforms & I don’t post/repost/boost them either.

Hard drive's running low, only seven terabytes available!

The purpose of a system is what it does

Eli's coming.

The second hug that Jeff gives Abed at the airport hits hard #AndAMovie

I'm curious to see the inevitable comparison videos with #Apple's on-device models, after macOS 26 ships youtube.com/watch?v=mJMvFyBvZEk youtube.com/watch?v=XuX66Oljro0 Does it stack up against Claude/etc al? Does it melt down our laptops? Turn fans on into space launch speed!? developer.apple.

#ruby question— Say I'm making a Rubygem named: ABC (I'm not, it's just an example) I don't want modules/classes to be named Abc I want modules/classes to be named ABC What sorcery do I have to perform to make this happen?

I would love LOVE a Ken Burns update to his Baseball documentary And in an alternate fantasy timeline, I'll really really love a whole Ken Burns (mini-)series about just the Chicago Cubs

tHe MiLiTaRy iS aPoLiTiCaL 🙃

This. Exactly this! “Thank you for your service” Oh yeah? What service? Who did it serve? How? What/who would’ve been worse if that service wasn’t done? How? “…uhhhhh freedom?” 🙄

Just a causal #opsec reminder to friends, especially to queer/bi friends: A photo of a key is often enough to make a copy of it —— So… if you want to protect yourself against people making copies without your permission, you may want to keep your keys in your pockets

But you want to know what I think is going on? Straight men are limiting their expression in order to perform masculinity, perform disinterest to look cool and make sure they never sound gay or feminine. It’s pure performance. If they’d just relax, they’d sound like normal people.

Of course, spending five minutes researching prior “literate Ruby" art led me to @steveklabnik.com! Maybe even during The Farmhouse days… CW (orange site) news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2089...

Literate code, multiple classes in one file Markdown could be like defined by H1 headings (Markdown HRs could indicate an explicit "end" to current scope) x.md: # Foo ## whoami puts class.name # Bar ## whoami puts class.name --- Foo.new.whoami Bar.new.whoami ——— ruby x.md "Foo" "Bar"

TIL: Ruby -x -x[dirpath] Execute Ruby code starting from a #!ruby line linux.die.net/man/1/ruby#:~:t... /via idiosyncratic-ruby.com/22-lit...

I never call cops* "pigs" because it's an insult to actual pigs 🐷 Especially as a vegan for the animals' liberation 💣 Similarly, I'd rather not pejoratively call the robots something that I otherwise like! 🤖 For example, toaster. I'm a big fan of actual toasters! 😀 1/2

Related hare brained programming ideas, syntax — Unicode & matching closers instead of: def foo if true # … end end imagine: def foo if true # … /if /foo or a Unicode symbol for method definition: foo → if true # … /if /foo bar arg1: 'default', arg2: nil → # … /bar

Today in hare brained programming ideas— what if we wrote code in Markdown files? Hear me out… A simple Ruby class (PORO): Foo w/ methods: bar & baz foo.rb: class Foo def bar puts "ab" end def baz puts "xy" end end ——— foo.md: # Foo ## bar puts "ab ## baz puts "xy

Milhaus

Seems like someone should make one of those single serving websites that answers the question about old so and so still being alive or not

Shoeless Joe Jackson should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame ⚾️

We just need to *win*

Goddamn a show "about a restaurant" has no business being as good as The Bear is Just give them all of the awards

Why do zombie movies look better when shot on film? 🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️ Graaaaaiiiiinnnnnssssss

The U2 pilot who was shot down in the Soviet Union in 1960 was named… Frank Powers If he was a character in a fiction, you'd be like, that's a little on the nose