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The real issue with Rails apps is keeping up with the framework and language versions. There are really two categories of dependencies. One-off libraries that don't have a runtime …

It looks like this is a community continuation of the axlsx gem which was maintained back in the day by Randy Morgan (randym) over at https://github.com/randym/axlsx . One of my ea…

Yeah, earlier in the GPT days I felt like this was a good example of LLMs being "a blurry jpeg of the web", since you could give them something that was very close to an existing p…

I'm a bit surprised it gets this question wrong (ChatGPT gets it right, even on instant). All the pre-reasoning models failed this question, but it's seemed solved since o1, and So…

Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1200/

PHP would definitely be in scope, either that or Java are likely to be next for us. If you are familiar with PHPs ecosystem I'd be interested in your take on what's most important …

Thanks! We support Python, JS, and Ruby right now (started with dynamic languages). I'm not sure what you mean by prioritization on the issues, but generally we are trying to help …

This is hard for lots of companies. Some ignore the problem entirely until there's a fire drill (which can be a huge risk if you end up on an old major version that won't get patch…

This is cool, it looks to me like you're integrating static analysis on the user's codebase and the underlying dependency. Very curious to see where it goes. We've found dependency…

This is very true. It can be a real fire drill if it turns out you need to go up a major version in some other dependency in order to get a security fix. It can get even worse in J…

This seems to show the power of the reasoning models over interacting with a prompted chat-tuned LLM directly. If I navigate backwards on your link Sonnet 4 gets it right. I've use…

We built a (free) tool that tracks deprecation warnings at runtime (ruby only for now). It's a gem you install that works like Sentry or Rollbar, but aggregates deprecation warning…

I think the kind of application here matters a lot, specifically whether you're trying to make a change to a web app or if you're hacking on library code. In ruby, for example, I c…

It doesn't do this for me. I've got side-loaded and Amazon store books on the same device, no problem.

They're tracking different related things. I run a startup in this space and we track: aggregate libyear of your direct dependencies; total # of direct dependencies with libyear > …

If you're curious, here's how I solved it for ruby back in the day. Still used magic bytes, but added an overlay on top of the freedesktop.org DB: https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mi…

Yeah I saw that, but that could cover a pretty wide range and it's not clear to me whether that relies on preloading a model.

Oh man, this brings me back! Almost 10 years ago I was working on a rails app trying to detect the file type of uploaded spreadsheets (xlsx files were being detected as application…

How does this work on the backend? Does it only trace method calls when an exception is thrown, or does it profile the call stack of every request? Something I've been interested i…

(Good project management is the key to this work. You need to spend the time up front (scripts can help here, but the tooling isn't awesome) to figure out everything that's going t…

I wouldn't necessarily recommend moving from an existing react frontend to hotwire at the same time as upgrading Rails itself. I'd get to Rails 7.1 first/independently. FWIW the Ra…

This is really cool. Do you have any results you can share in using this on your own projects (e.g., contributions you made you wouldn't have otherwise come up with)? I'm similarly…

Fascinating. I would 100% pick race track. Maybe because populated areas is plural? Or because the question gives a named subject and nobody would ever respond to "where are you go…

(disclaimer - I'm the founder of infield.ai; we're software for upgrading dependencies safely, even when there are breaking changes). I spent most of last year upgrading large Rail…