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Very nice. I've been using https://screenotate.com/ for years in part because of the nice OCR support

Having your business beholden to any app store is a bit scary, but Google's chrome web store is probably the most precarious. As far as I can tell, almost every negative action tak…

Nope. If you read the post, you'll see he mentions that it isn't related to uglification. It's a definition of unicode characters

Another cool way you could do this: Ruby methods can ask for their caller_locations. They work like this: # Source $ cat example_for_hn.rb def foo bar end def bar baz end def baz (…

I had the privilege of seeing Jeffrey do multiple live performances of his software (demoed @ 9:20) at different Internet Archive events while he was the artist in residence. Each …

Yeah, I don't remember any of the Ruby tooling ecosystem maintainers having nice things to say about the various syntax changes they've added over the years. I don't blame them. Th…

Yeah. Been years since I even played with it, but even in 2016 I remember Ripper being completely unusable, failing to parse plenty of normal Ruby syntax. The Parser gem also maint…

Ruby's parser is notoriously complex; if I remember correctly, only a few members of the core team even know how to maintain it without introducing regressions. The craziest part o…

I'm building Jam ( https://jam.link/ ) to tackle this problem. You can think of it as a consumer password manager built specifically for sharing. It's fully frontend encrypted, so …

Author here, thanks for reading! Regarding "decentralization can only exist to circumvent the law", I don't think that in the long term (>5 years out). I touched on this a bit in a…

Author here. I'm mainly writing about decentralization that is supposed to be mainstream while also looking for historical examples. With that in mind, I've looked at: - Dozens of …

Another interesting project is RDL: https://github.com/plum-umd/rdl Both Diamondback and RDL come out of UMD. I'm curious what drives this research there. From what I can tell, Rub…

First of all that is an interesting point. Given that it isn't as potentially dangerous I'll agree that it is less bad than I initially thought. I'll respond to your question by as…

Ah well "You probably shouldn’t do that though" is just my opinion as the author. I didn't play a part in these changes. I just like Ruby enough to dig into their changelog :)

I don't know if he has written about it beyond the docs and various commits. He has talked about it many times on his podcast (which I highly recommend). Here is an episode that ta…

I feel bad for Sean Griffin. He spent over a year overhauling the internals of ActiveRecord to add this attributes API. His work dramatically improves coercion and type enforcement…

Author's other projects are pretty interesting too: https://rsnous.com/