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by vinceguidry 10mo ago
For a long time I avoided projects written in Python for this same reason, though they seem to have resolved the issues over time. The only stack these days that gives me pause is nodejs, but for different reasons.
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by vinceguidry 10mo ago
> look at rack. What a joke. Yeah, I think the Ruby world burned out of the whole "make everything nice" aesthetic when they alienated the everloving fuck out of _why. Now it's a post-apocalyptic wasteland where if you wan
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by vinceguidry 10mo ago
I think this tone is definitely a deliberate creative choice, and is something I personally enjoy. I'm reminded of this line from Taylor Swift's new album: "did you girlboss too close to the sun?" It's borne out of
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by vinceguidry 10mo ago
Can't leave out Dr. Angela Collier: https://www.youtube.com/@acollierastro Hopefully author reads HN.
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by vinceguidry 11mo ago
Author gives own take on what they thinks servant leadership means, then invents a supposedly different kind of leadership that is just servant leadership, taken into a different context than the original church one, then gives it a new nam
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by vinceguidry 11mo ago
When you're not editing lisp.
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by vinceguidry 11mo ago
Just use `rails new`. It's all built in.
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by vinceguidry 11mo ago
All any build toolkit is is automations over bash. You can make your own. GitHub integration need not be any more than the most trivial thing that works. Your coworkers, naturally, won't be disciplined enough to keep the integration tr
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by vinceguidry 11mo ago
It is but 90% of this horizontal pressure is just nonsense. Not actual faults that need to be tolerated. Cooler heads stick around and solve the problems, but by the time that happens, the larger dev community has already moved on to someth
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by vinceguidry 11mo ago
Ignore them? I did anything but. I know the new solution was shittier because I was the one who implemented it. Every single time. It never made my life better, only worse.
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by vinceguidry 11mo ago
The Rails experience of 15 years ago is still achievable, with Rails, today. It's even better if you can believe it. You just have to throw out the notion of SPA frameworks and be willing to actually learn how HTML / CSS works. I
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by vinceguidry 11mo ago
This article made me laugh and cry at the same time. I've spent so much time in my career trying to make things nice and seamless only to see my own team members throw out my careful work for something newer, shinier, and shittier. I w
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
I wanted to like modal editing in Emacs. But I had to come to terms with the fact that it's always going to be a kludge. Boon is the best I've seen it get, but when I wanted to improve it, I realized it would be less work over the
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
When I went to go look for a platform to implement a personal text editor on, I somewhat quickly settled on the vt100 terminal api with kitty extensions, particularly its keyboard protocol. Everything else locks you into, not only a languag
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
Yeah, I'm looking at having my text editor handle much of the formatting of my Ruby files, I've already got a serviceable indenter. My text editor will eventually be able to handle more than one language, so I won't need any
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
Ruby isn't Smalltalk. The only thing Ruby inherited from it is the pure object model. Everything else was cribbed from other languages. Ruby doesn't have what makes Smalltalk great, the image-based development model. I'm maki
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
That's... kinda ridiculous? It sounds like you're just against taxation period. How should a government fund itself?
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
You shouldn't have much difficulty, Ruby converts blocks to Procs whenever it needs an actual object. Their semantics are intentionally kept the same. This is unlike lambdas, whose semantics are closer to methods. Pass the wrong number
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
Utterly absurd. Names don't get called for fear of legal retaliation, it's that culture of fear that allows businesses to keep operating this way.
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
Great article. I got off the webdev train just as Redux was coming out and never looked back. When my team lead decided to unilaterally replatform the app we maintained from Rails to NodeJS my professional life went from heaven to hell. Gon
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
We have answers to all these questions, or can find them, but they can't be implemented in an active warzone.
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
Crystal is object-oriented, but isn't a pure object system. In a pure object system, literally everything is, or can be turned into an object. Smalltalk is the only other example of a language family that offers a pure object system. W
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
It's nowhere near ready but I made a gist: https://gist.github.com/VinceGuidry/b44f02117d452bde7471dae2... I like crystal but without pure OO and the fact that the community is so far behind Go or even Scala it&#x
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
Really looking forward to this, writing my own personal editor in Ruby and not having a library for parsing terminal input is leading me to write my own kitty keyboard protocol parser (which ghostty implements) and having to hand-code looku
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
The Ruby community has long had a rift between two types of members, the really nice folks that take after Matz, and techbro assholes like DHH. The former have mostly tolerated the latter creating an ugly toxicity that the community has bec
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
More likely an inside joke they've had for years.
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
The profit motive is largely what drives these problems. My big dream is a social media platform for humans. Self-hostable Zoom / Discord alternative that just works. AGPL-licensed and eventually turned over to the GNU project for long
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
They're very good. They get training directly from the regime.
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
Pitch them to Elon Musk instead. That's all he seems to care about.
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by vinceguidry 1y ago
There are massive numbers of devs who would never even think of trying to code in a dynamically-typed language, even though the big players all have gradual typing. They don't know what they're missing.

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