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Here are the generated docs. I tried to be thorough with these right from the beginning too. https://rubydoc.info/gems/async_futures https://rubydoc.info/gems/async_futures/index

This gem allows you to execute code more-or-less identically across Ractors, Threads, and Fibers. This makes it much easier to test out your code's performance behavior by using an…

That's pretty much true of HTMX too (which is what GP mentions using). I mention Hotwire Native (different from plain Hotwire) because it makes it easy to wrap a web app as a mobil…

Can't vouch for it's effectiveness, but Hotwire Native might meet the needs for mobile paired with plain HTML. Despite the name, it doesn't seem that using Hotwire for the web UI i…

Time to invest in a small Faraday bag to keep in the car.

There was a hidden benefit in the old way: it avoided people making effort for things that weren't important. It took effort to make signal cut through noise. When it was low effor…

I haven't had to deal with this in open source, but I have had to deal with coworkers posting slop for code reviews where I am the assigned reviewer. I've noticed that slop code ha…

Although I'm not wild about the new `io` parameter popping up everywhere, I love the fact that it allows multiple implementations (thread based, fiber based, etc.) and avoids forci…

The best anti malware on any version of windows has always been to not run windows.

I bring up raw milk because it is minimally processed (I don't even consume it personally). I used it as an example because it shows how much plastic is embedded in the food chain …

The most disturbing is "Raw Cow Milk from Farm in Glass". It still is loaded with plastic, even though it is one of the least processed things on the list. My only question is was …

I use it on my own docs to remove extraneous details. I often write too many words in early drafts and LLMs summarize my writing faster than I can (although I don't know if they do…

And that increase in LLM usage has resulted in an enormous increase of code duplications and code churn in said open source projects. Any benefit from new features implemented by L…

In light of this, employee referrals and in person interviews should become increasingly important. Sadly, most corporate executives will learn the wrong lessons from this and inst…

I mostly like Vim because it is available everywhere and in the terminal. In its default configuration it isn't the most powerful IDE, but it is vastly more powerful that any other…

My understanding is that TIOBE is primarily based on number of search engine results. Other results like number of active (a commit within the last 6-12 months) open source repos o…

I miss the old internet. I'm pretty sure anyone old enough to have experienced it misses it.

I had one job at a pinball company where my coworkers and I didn't get paid for a couple months. I quickly found work elsewhere. Thankfulfully my backpay did eventually come, but I…

I tried AI code completion via Amazon Q. I quickly turned it off; half the suggestions were noise that took more time to review than actually writing it myself. The one good use I …

I tried graveyards and swing shifts in my twenties. I only did it for a year, but it wrecked my sleep schedule for years afterward; I struggled with insomnia because of it. Not sur…

Good point. That sounds about right.

I think paid oncall could work if oncall is voluntary. The more oncall sucks, the less likely team members are to volunteer because the pay isn't worth it, then the company/team ne…

Not a dishwasher story, but related. We bought a whirlpool washer and dryer set and hated them. The set was one of the few name brand models without WiFi "features" added on. But t…

Hi everyone! I created this small Ruby Gem to add some convenient methods to the Fiber class to make it easier to use in the same way a Thread object can be used. This was born out…

It is mentioned in the article, but then quickly dismissed: people seeking income via creating new businesses after being laid off during the lockdowns. I think there is a secondar…