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I was wondering the same thing —Perseus has been around since _1987_ & seems to have more features? I guess this is a bit more attractively laid out…

The true gift is being honest & kind at the same time. It takes more effort, but I think it’s worth it!

Senior Software Engineer Location: Brooklyn, NY Remote: optional, open to in-person in the NY area. Willing to relocate: probably not. Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, HTM…

Yes, typing would obviate the need for the sorts of extensive unit testing I'm talking about here. I feel that. Luckily, the frontier LLMs (especially Claude) have gotten _really_ …

Honest question: what’s an example of a fully-featured web framework that makes upgrading a “large & old” application painless? In my experience, upgrading an underlying framework …

I have had similar experiences & we are not alone: https://bytecode.hr/posts/why-ruby-is-the-better-language-fo... . There are indeed so many compelling arguments against using Rub…

Senior Software Engineer Location: Brooklyn, NY Remote: optional, open to in-person in the NY area. Willing to relocate: probably not. Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, HTM…

I subscribed to MacAddict in the mid-90s, back when Gil Amelio was Apple’s CEO, the company couldn’t ship software (Copland, Dylan, Gershwin, etc.), & they could barely afford to a…

I absolutely agree with you. Also, some folks seem to be forgetting the virtues of boring, time-tested platforms & technologies in their rush to embrace the new & shiny & vibe-***e…

One does not even need OpenClaw to achieve this outcome: https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248

Absolutely yes, all over the place! Startups are building greenfield software with Rails as we speak. Loads of established businesses have Ruby applications that are quietly chuggi…

That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!

I was very skeptical of these plans at first—as a New Yorker, I don’t exactly have a lot of trust in our city’s government to run things well. But I’ve come around. Let’s try somet…

It’s the complete disregard of typesetting in ebooks that has always repelled me. I fundamentally reject the notion that all books can be reduced to text files. Design matters!

I live in a section of Brooklyn (the "flat south section" per this fantastically detailed Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lettered_Brooklyn_aven... ) in whic…

I agree with almost all of this, & yes, retreats can be life-changing. They certainly have been for me! However, I do not understand this comment: For the Soto Zen and Vipassana tr…

I don’t think it counts as NIMBYism if you don’t want it in yours or anybody’s backyard, ever. I would describe that as principled opposition. Also, what happens when we don’t need…

Came here for this, thank you. I knew I’d seen this sort of thing before. Curation feels better with this implementation?

Interesting—this feels like a very “engineering manager” sort of observation that isn’t actually all that generalizable. My observation is that people share incredibly creative wor…

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I’m currently working on a sequencer DAW plug-in (MIDI, audio) with multiple voices & precise timing/articulation controls, including a templating system & transformations to apply…

+1, Max for the rapid prototyping & flexible control, Csound for its concision & high fidelity.

I don’t believe this is true? I’m pretty sure that you’re prohibited from making money from that fan fiction, not from writing it at all. So I don’t understand the claim that copyr…

Thank you! It was really helpful to be reminded of this truth such an unexpected context. I am finally beginning to grab that “ordinary person’s life” & getting there has indeed be…

Very well put. I’m open to a future in which nothing is copyrighted & everything is in the public domain, but the byproduct of that public domain material should _also_ be owned by…