“Tests slow me down” he says as he refreshes his browser and fills the form in again for the 15th time today.

You think that after about 15 years of using git, you can easily make it NOT ignore a file... right? Well, if the file is nested inside an ignored subdirectory you can't just directly add it with "!/path/to/file". Real life events inspired my blog post: blog.narnach.com/blog/2022/d…

Making Popular Ruby Packages More Secure: blog.rubygems.org/2022/06/13…

Groupie v0.6.0 has been released! 🎉 github.com/Narnach/groupie/r… 🤔 What is it? A ruby gem to do text classification using a Bayesian approach. 📢 What has changed? Dropped Ruby 2.6 support (it's EOL) and improved tokenization of URLs.

I was surprised when I read @charlieinthe6's report on YC companies initial choices in back-end programming language and their eventual valuations. charliereese.ca/article/top-… I expected to see a modest correlation between tech stack and financial success. Wow was I wrong! 🧵1

Let web3 die in a flaming ball of fire.

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary Back in the old days, when it felt like it was mostly just a developer community 😅 Twitter has come a long way since then.

Link: Appeal to Ruby community from Kharkiv Rubyist zverok.space/blog/2022-03-03…

Equally, if you build production systems on found 'free' software without the engineering due diligence of understanding how you will support/maintain those critical components, you don't get to be surprised or upset when you discover a dumpster fire in your midst. 3/4

A very good writeup of a (now patched) ingenious exploit for iOS. Unfortunately it was created by NSO Group, who sells it to evil regimes that use it to suppress good people. googleprojectzero.blogspot.c…

Hey @transavia die website van jullie blijft de sessie resetten, soms zelfs na een minuut of 2. Ik heb na 3x proberen te boeken de moed opgegeven. Dit is niet hoe je mensen motiveert om met jullie te vliegen 😉

Any time I have a thought of: “I should have done X differently” I’ve been making an effort to reframe the thought as: “If I’m in that situation again, I can do X differently”

Want to work with me at @Nedap :)? We are looking for quite a few people with Ruby or Elixir background, this is one of the open roles: remoteok.io/remote-jobs/1043… DM me (or apply) if you are interested :) All roles are remote.

Razors are rules that simplify decisions. THREAD: 20 powerful razors (to help you cut through life’s noise):

Interessant weetje voor de millennials. Vroeger waren smartphones overdekt zodat je niet nat werd als het regende. Er hing een afgedrukte versie van Facebook waarin al je vrienden stonden. Als je beltegoed op was kon je dat met een voorloper van de tikkie ter plekke opwaarderen.

This is absolutely going to have effects on AWS. "Which half of the business can I trust" isn't something you want your customers ever asking. Customers don't grok your org chart, and expecting them to is patently unreasonable. Google Reader continues to haunt Google Cloud.