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A majority of people in North West England has Irish ancestry. Are those people not British?

After German reunification the states of East Germany and West Germany ceased to be. Was that two genocides?

No state has the right to exist, that thought terminating cliche makes no sense legally or philosophically. States are recognised by other states, with no legal rights involved. Al…

> It's almost like if bureaucrats who are writing regulations are experienced in writing regulations in such a way they can't be circumvented. Americans often seem to have the view…

You can also set up DNS records pointing to your home server's VPN IP, which, with Tailscale, I've found to be pretty static and then a reverse proxy on your home server. So I have…

That's certainly not a criticism that could be levelled at Giantbomb, considering it was started when its founder, Jeff Gerstman, was fired from his job at GameSpot for giving a ga…

Thanks, I'll let my team know. Sorry I meant to say "I've been thinking about building a Once style project" I've just got a couple of not very well fleshed out ideas at the moment…

It's simply not true that "regular AR calls are painfully slow." In the context of a web request, the time spent instantiating Active Record objects is negligible. For example, on …

It's been widely understood in the Ruby community for some time now that metaprogramming—like in the example above—should generally be limited to framework or library code, and avo…

This is an interesting project! I'm going to recommend it to my team at work, since we've been moving to try to self-host more of our services. I've been about building a Once-styl…

I recently read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, and one of the ideas in it that I thought was very good was replacing our cargo ships with wind-powered ships, …

As a long time Ruby developer the only thing about Ruby that I wish would die is people declaring 'Is Ruby dead?/Ruby is dead/Ruby isn't dead'!

Ruby will probably never again be the most popular language in the world, and it doesn't need to be for the people who enjoy it to be excited about the recent improvements in perfo…

Between Rails At Scale and byroot's blogs, it's currently a fantastic time to be interested in in-depth discussions around Ruby internals and performance! And with all the recent i…

ChatGPT won't tell you how to do anything illegal, for example, it won't tell you how to make drugs.

I know of a bunch of apps that deploy to multiple servers behind a load balancer using Kamal. Here's an article explaining the process https://guillaumebriday.fr/how-to-deploy-and-…

How does a modern goto differ from a traditional goto?

This was written by the recently deceased Noah Gibbs. The site is now under the control of his widow. It's a great course and I'd encourage people to check it out.

I think it's a combination of a lot of things over the last 2ish years: 1. Ruby 3.0 and YJIT have provided huge performance gains for the language with further improvements still l…

I didn't mean to imply you didn't know that stuff, I just tend to write comments from the basics for anyone unfamiliar who may be reading. Yup I would expect it to have an (extreme…

The gem isn't freezing instances of the objects, but rather the classes themselves. In Ruby (nearly) everything is an object, so for example Array is an object of type Class. Class…

The new getting started guide is great. Chris Oliver is a great teacher. Afterwards, if you want a 102-style tutorial, I'm a big fan of https://www.hotrails.dev/ . It goes step by …

This rapid feedback seems like it will be especially useful when iterating on CSS designs

Since Rails 7.1 we've had https://www.rubydoc.info/github/rails/rails/ActiveRecord%2FR... which actaully does run queries in parallel. There's also Rails' russian doll caching, whi…