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aidog

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About aidog

I'm a Swiss expat based in Japan. I do consulting all around software. Happy to introduce you to rural Japan and the amazing people here.

contact me: andi at idogawa dot com

Programming blog: idogawa.dev Miyazaki Japan Infosite: Miyazakian.com Interests: Ruby, cool tech, Small Computers with PicoRuby and MRuby

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    Noteworthy in the MRuby universe, which is all about lightweight Ruby implementations is picoruby. You can get an integrated ruby shell on a Raspberry Pi Pico: https://www.youtube.…

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    Comment #45412575

    It's sad, that android is the only system that can be used to code on the device thanks to termux and now google wants to end this.

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    Comment #45198193

    PHP Maintainer Joe Watkins aka krakjoe story.

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    I followed Thor's journey over the years. Great dude and a incredible achivement. Imagine planning for 4 years but hanging on for 10! He also had bad luck being stuck during covid.…

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    It's something I ran into quite a few times in my career. It's a weird call to get if the client can't save their cms site, due to typing something harmless. I think worst was when…

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    Comment #43704623

    I saw a child chat with an AI Tom Felton on the bus using her smartphone. I'm not sure if that is healthy.

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    Comment #43466065

    picoruby is a lot of fun. It's a reimplementation of mruby/c which is even smaller. You might be interested in my friend and creator HASUMI Hitoshi's presentation. He shows off his…

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    See also https://adhdactually.com/membership Basically moderated by a small team zoom sessions to body double.

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    Note: This is by the author of the popular kramdown markdown library.

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    Comment #41220503

    I would be happy to just get the old PWA mode back. Turn a webapp into a window.

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    Comment #40967846

    Just read this one. Always a good overview about what happens in the ruby world!

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    Comment #40925647

    Because you can expect the food to taste a certain way.

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    Comment #40820013

    Every grandpa in the japanese country side needs a kei truck. It's very practical. I moved apartments using one. The bed is hip height and opens quickly. The safety concern is some…

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    Comment #40654019

    I have the same, it's hard for other people to understand.

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    Comment #40543850

    ATMs closing must be mostly because of the scams

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    Comment #40133429

    look at the examples they made why it should be in CSS grid. I totally agree it should be in that. It's a form of grid. It should be part of CSS grid. This is one of the layouts th…

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    I absolutely want this. I have wanted this for years. This is a form of grid so it should be in CSS grid. Especially since it has tracks. Browser makers, please just ship this.

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    Comment #40067859

    Ruby.wasm is here now, so you can run ruby in the browser. It still a bit big, but it even supports many regular gems. I met up today with a friend who is working on much smaller m…

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    Comment #40032663

    As Swiss abroad in far away Japan "Kühreihen" didn't make me deadly nostalgic. I guess the soldiers lived in the alps. I miss my family more than mountains.

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    Comment #39960481

    Japan. First TLS+DNS felt like 3 seconds. Further loads are almost instant. I think it's totally fine.

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    Location: Japan Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Europe, Switzerland Technologies: Ruby, Python Frontend, Backend, Linux Résumé/CV: idogawa.com Email: andi idogawa com

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    My biggest complaint is that they don't even let you send photos over bluetooth to a non-apple device! There is no way to share files wirelessly.