nithinbekal

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by nithinbekal 5mo ago
I've been having a lot of fun building my own programming language [1]. Getting to the point where you can write programs in your own language was surprisingly easy. The language, Sapphire, is Ruby inspired, so the most interesting par
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by nithinbekal 6mo ago
A Ruby-inspired typed programming language called Sapphire: https://github.com/sapphire-project/sapphire I was reading the fantastic Crafting Interpreters book, and been wondering what it would be like to design a lang
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by nithinbekal 9mo ago
Thank you!
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by nithinbekal 9mo ago
Blog: https://nithinbekal.com/ Photography: https://photos.nithinbekal.com/ Directory of free technical books: https://devlibrary.org/
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by nithinbekal 9mo ago
> Four hundred and sixty books is not a scale problem. Knowing when to delete working code is not something an AI can decide for you. This is such a key thing I remind myself when I build apps like this for myself. I have a similar app t
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What's New in Ruby 4.0(nithinbekal.com)
5 points by nithinbekal 9mo ago|0 comments
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What's New in Ruby 4.0(nithinbekal.com)
5 points by nithinbekal 10mo ago|1 comments
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by nithinbekal 1y ago
Sorbet now supports inline RBS signatures, which I find a lot more readable. If you use VS code with Ruby LSP, the syntax highlighting is pretty great for the signatures too. https://sorbet.org/docs/rbs-support
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by nithinbekal 1y ago
I replaced it with a tiny app that I built for myself, that just has the features of Pocket that I was using. https://bukmark.me/
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What's New in Ruby 3.4(nithinbekal.com)
3 points by nithinbekal 2y ago|0 comments
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What's New in Ruby 3.4(nithinbekal.com)
2 points by nithinbekal 2y ago|0 comments
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Rails 8.0.0.beta1 Released(github.com)
3 points by nithinbekal 2y ago|0 comments
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by nithinbekal 2y ago
Wouldn't that be too similar to NoMethodError? I recently came across the idiom in Smalltalk, where you would call subclassResponsibility: someMethod: self subclassResponsibility I've suggested the name in the ruby
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Abstract Methods and NotImplementedError in Ruby(nithinbekal.com)
52 points by nithinbekal 2y ago|25 comments
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Numeric operations on value objects in Ruby(nithinbekal.com)
4 points by nithinbekal 3y ago|0 comments
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Long exposure images from videos(nithinbekal.com)
23 points by nithinbekal 3y ago|3 comments
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What's New in Ruby 3.3(nithinbekal.com)
5 points by nithinbekal 3y ago|0 comments
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by nithinbekal 3y ago
That's from 6 years ago. Shopify has used Rails' main branch since 2019. https://shopify.engineering/living-on-the-edge-of-rails
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by nithinbekal 3y ago
Yes, you can with irb:debug, which you can enter by typing debug one you're inside a binding.irb session.
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by nithinbekal 3y ago
While this was true for a long time, Ruby's built in irb and debug gems have improved dramatically in the past couple of years. To the point that I've switched to them from pry+byebug that I've been using for years.
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Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster(railsatscale.com)
175 points by nithinbekal 3y ago|154 comments
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by nithinbekal 3y ago
There are plans to introduce type system into Elixir: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-...
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by nithinbekal 3y ago
> type mismatch errors at runtime that could have been caught at compile time It's still early, but there are plans to introduce a type system for Elixir: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/t
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It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate(simonwillison.net)
280 points by nithinbekal 3y ago|378 comments
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Garbage Collection in Ruby(blog.peterzhu.ca)
4 points by nithinbekal 3y ago|0 comments
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Making Sorbet compatible with Ruby 3.2(railsatscale.com)
2 points by nithinbekal 3y ago|0 comments
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by nithinbekal 3y ago
A much simpler alternative to this is kickstart.nvim. My approach to customizing my neovim config was to use kickstart as a reference, and slowly add things that I needed. https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
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by nithinbekal 3y ago
I started writing my blog as a devlog for myself refer to later, and didn't expect anyone else to care. However, it eventually let to a job interview that in turn led to my current job. The team I joined worked on a Ruby codebase, and
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by nithinbekal 3y ago
https://nithinbekal.com/ My random notes about programming, primarily about Ruby and Rails. Built with Jekyll, and hosted on Github pages. Source can be found here: https://github.com/nithinbekal/nithin
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What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify(shopify.engineering)
2 points by nithinbekal 4y ago|0 comments

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