Listener of Zappa • writer of Ruby and JavaScript • creator of github.com/benpickles/peity • leader of thought • @benpickles@ruby.social
Joined July 2007
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22 Mar 2023
For the last few years my website has been a Rails app running on Netlify using a library I wrote to turn any Rack app into a static build. It's now super simple to turn a Sinatra app into a static site that's deployed to GitHub Pages on every push benpickles.com/articles/90-i… #ruby
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23 Mar 2023
It is the highest honour to headline Ruby Weekly rubyweekly.com/issues/646 💖 @cooperx86
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24 Aug 2022
Announcing Operatic, a minimal standard interface to encapsulate your Ruby operations (often referred to as “service objects”) benpickles.com/articles/87-a…
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25 Mar 2022
I’ve resurrected Screamshot, a synchronous HTTP screenshot service I first released in 2016(!), and added a few new features - my favourite is support for `prefers-reduced-motion=reduce` benpickles.com/articles/86-t…
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27 Nov 2018
Find out how I save 2 minutes for every build on CircleCI by using more robust Gem caching benpickles.com/articles/76-b…
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21 Nov 2018
I’ve been using @dependabot for a while — it’s like adding a developer to your team. I’m really impressed so I wrote about why benpickles.com/articles/74-d…
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11 May 2018
I only recently discovered RSpec’s --next-failure feature, here's how to use it: benpickles.com/articles/69-r…
9 Dec 2017
Umm. I just walked in on my cat. In the bathroom. Sitting in the sink.
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16 Nov 2017
I solemnly swear that my house will never run out of Nesquik banana milkshake powder
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24 Oct 2017
I wrote `v` to help with my common wants when starting Vim, here are the two things it does benpickles.com/articles/67-v…
14 Sep 2017
son: ”dad i saw a photo of when you were young and had no beard, you looked weird!" <walks off>
me: 😐 🤔 theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_diff…
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31 Aug 2017
For the last 6 years, I’ve followed this account tweeting about WWII in “real time”. Very interesting and it’s starting over today. x.com/RealTimeWWII/status/90…
31 Aug 2017
Nazi SS troops dressed as Poles are attacking German radio station in Gleiwitz, to provide false pretext for German attack on Poland.
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22 Jun 2017
Man behind me on the train sounds exactly like @ProfBrianCox 😍 I don’t want burst the bubble by looking round to check
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10 Apr 2017
Great writeup of the process for coming up with a winning JS Golf entry! x.com/benpickles/status/8477…
31 Mar 2017
@jsgolfbot I wrote about my journey to a solution for problem #4 benpickles.com/articles/66-t…
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31 Mar 2017
My journey to a code golf solution and its brush with a few of JavaScript's newer language features benpickles.com/articles/66-t…
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30 Jan 2017
Person on train: “well at least he’s doing what he said he’d do - which is more than most politicians”
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12 Nov 2016
I just described raw broccoli as having a certain ”sweet pea-ness” to it
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