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Caching β€” PlanetScale Every time you use a computer, the cache is working to ensure your experience is fast.

This is a great post on thinking about caching, I love all the animations and visualizations they use to make the concepts crystal clear planetscale.com/blog/caching

28.02.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hackpack from Mark Robber a kids Netflix science guy

02.02.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nice I programmed with my kid (in C) to get a robot that shoots nerf darts to randomly spin and pause and fire. So now we can play a game where we all run or try to doge the robot nerf attacker ;)

22.01.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is so true I was moving over txt to speech to use Google Vertex and sorting out auth took 5 times longer than the new code service. Even AI couldn't help with auth and would give 10 step directions for manual human click and navigate steps to try to get the right auth and permissions

17.01.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

we are winning the war on allocations andycroll.com/ruby/find-t...

13.01.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Science Saturday: Crunchlab’s Turret My kids found Crunchlabs on youtube and then nextflix, and my son really wanted to get a hack pack subscription for Christmas, so we did. The first hack pack delivery was the IR Turret and it was a…

millermayersadventures.com/2026/01/08/s...

09.01.2026 04:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

please NO... designers need to stop breaking and messing with things that work well... Sometimes a simple design that works well doesn't need to constantly change in fact the change becomes the worst part of the design.

I hate every single time google now updates the google maps UI.

09.01.2026 04:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time. - Marc's Blog

brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05... true

23.12.2025 21:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hmmm following thread in case someone has data

06.11.2025 18:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And here's a newsletter/blog post

noelrappin.com/blog/2025/10...

Part one of a likely two-part series about the languages that influenced Ruby.

This time, Perl, with all of its shortcuts and syntax quirks. The things Ruby took and the things Ruby left behind...

14.10.2025 02:16 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I really enjoy this kind of problem solving and building as well. It is like a puzzle but also feels productive and forces learning different skills.

14.10.2025 02:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ok, fall let's do this.

14.10.2025 02:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Vote Yes on LL and MM in Colorado this November Theo published his first Op-Ed in the Westword today. He’s a 3rd grader in DPS and aΒ  supporter of universal school meals based on his first-hand student experience.Β  He drafted the op-ed in …

My kids first opened on supporting school lunches millermayersadventures.com/2025/10/05/v...

05.10.2025 20:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OK, it is that time again looking for some fun sci fi book recommendations. Futurism, Solar Punk, etc... Favorites murder bot, the martian, lock-in / head on, old Michael Crichton.

05.10.2025 16:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Claude code is really good at ffmpeg command line options... Give it a bunch of photos and music and some suggestions about timing etc and it can stitch everything together nicely. Easily handling multiple formats, sizes, orientation, etc

04.10.2025 00:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rhino climbing

Rhino climbing

Rhino climbing

Rhino climbing

Rhino climbing

Rhino climbing

New rhino in rino a nice setup on Denver by the river

28.09.2025 00:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Friday was my last day of an incredible journey at Shopify.

In the past 5 years, I had the privilege of working on some cutting edge projects to advance Ruby with some of the most talented and well-known developers.

Shopify will always have a very special place in my heart.

20.09.2025 13:04 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0
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I have been learning more about hardware and electronics repair. I disassembled my gardyn towers and put in a diy replacement for the water pump, now I bypassed the fried motherboard, cameras, and sensors to put the grow lights on a simple timer. Cutting energy use about in half in the process.

12.09.2025 16:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good architecture is invisible until it saves you.

Great example is flipper’s adapter pattern. Can move from db to cache to whatever storage you want with little effort.

10.09.2025 21:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging

Invest some time to set up the debugger for your project, and document how to use it.

You don’t have to debug everything with it, but having it available will save you a lot of time when you do need it.

mahesh-hegde.github.io/posts/what_d...

10.09.2025 23:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is amazing what we can train ourselves to expect. I wear noise cancelling headphones to keep things quiet while working, but I am so use to them I find out of habit I put them on even when my space is entirely silent, as it triggers focus mode just having them on

10.09.2025 16:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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07.09.2025 13:19 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky loves links β€” we don’t downrank or deprioritize posts with links in them, and as a result they get higher traffic, so lots of people post them.

03.09.2025 23:09 πŸ‘ 4568 πŸ” 455 πŸ’¬ 96 πŸ“Œ 51
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Add support for `rack.response_finished` callbacks in `ActionDispatch::Executor` by adrianna-chang-shopify Β· Pull Request #55425 Β· rails/rails Motivation / Background The executor middleware now supports deferring completion callbacks to later in the request lifecycle by utilizing Rack's rack.response_finished mechanism, when availabl...

🀩 github.com/rails/rails/...
github.com/puma/puma/pu...

At @tropicalonrails.bsky.social, @fxn.bsky.social and I talked about the very cumbersome Rack::BodyProxy way of doing stuff once the response body has been closed, as my talk about the executor spent some time explaining it.This is much nicer!

29.08.2025 07:43 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It was great to cross paths with you I learned a lot from both your internal and open work. Your blog series has also been amazing, I hope you keep blogging.

28.08.2025 04:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œA good programmer is not someone who writes a lot of code, but someone who avoids unnecessary code.”

19.08.2025 14:00 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the FortniteSwitch community on Reddit: Fortnite Switch has two sides- Explore this post and more from the FortniteSwitch community

My kid and I play fortnite together and the switch2 basically wasn't even usable for fortnite, something is seriously broken... Some folks still think it is a myth.
www.reddit.com/r/FortniteSw...

20.08.2025 04:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds amazing have a blast

18.08.2025 18:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

tooling in emacs fell behind, I still kind of miss it, but am happy to not be maintaining a bunch of emacs hacks these days

01.08.2025 02:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is truly cursed, I love it, and I expect no less from @jhawthorn.com

01.08.2025 02:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0