Yasar

Ruby turned 30, and I turned 29 today!

Optimizing Ruby performance: Observations from thousands of real-world services | Datadog Learn about trends in Ruby development and opportunities for improving performance that many organizations are leaving on the table.

"Our data backs up other findings that Ruby applications are generally less I/O-heavy, spending as much or more time on CPU as they do waiting on other services or database requests."

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I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted.

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Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025 As part of standard incident-response practice, Ruby Central is publishing the following post-incident review to the public. This document summarizes the September 2025 AWS root-access event, what…

Here’s a note from our Executive Director regarding our recent security incident.
rubycentral.org/news/rubygem...

Beyond performance work, I deprecated a bunch of APis in the JSON gem, and added others, so I figured it would be a good occasion to talk about API design: byroot.github.io/ruby/json/20...

Me on the RailsConf stage with the audience in the background

Selfie from the #RailsConf stage!

Yesterday at game night at #RailsConf I was lucky to chat a bunch with @celep.bsky.social, a big fan and expert in speciality coffee! ☕💖 Of course, I recommended him to follow @lucianghinda.com and come to @friendlyrb.com, where there'll be an amazing coffee corner web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/frie... 😍

Meet Yaşar Celep, one of our Scholars attending this year’s #RailsConf! 👋

Yaşar is a backend & platform engineer based in Istanbul, Turkey, with 8 years of experience in tech & 5 years working with Ruby.

He’s also a long-time open source event organizer & behind many Ruby & Linux events in Turkey!

Finally a show about Boolean logic operators

teşekkür ederim

memnun musun?

Remarkable mı tabletin?

I saw a Gore-Tex cap. :D It was exciting back in the early 2010s, but now it feels like just a marketing gimmick

Congrats! 🎉

I’m thinking out loud:

Mushrooms have a deep connection(fungal networks) with one another, enabling them to communicate. They can also sense their environment.

NIST tarafında üç tane post-quantum şifreleme standartı belirlendi, ve bunlar kullanılmaya başladı. (En azından teşvik edilmeye çalışılıyor) Özellikle crypto-currency camiası bu konuda öncü olacak gibi.
(Fiziksel temas gerektiren cihazlar hariç) O kadar maliyetli bir geçiş olur mu, emin değilim.

Jean is (again) doing God's work on JSON gem for the benefit of the whole community.

One aspect of this that isn't visible from outside: He worked with Ruby Core team and gem creator flori to move the repo under the ruby org, which allowed him to start contributing all this work as a result.

Implement a fast path for integer parsing by casperisfine · Pull Request #692 · ruby/json rb_cstr2inum isn't very fast because it handles tons of different scenarios, and also require a NULL terminated string which forces us to copy the number into a secondary buffer. But since the ...

This morning I though I was done optimizing the ruby/json parser, so I was doing some final cleanups before the 2.8.0 release. But nope, I found two more ~10% wins back to back...

This will never end...

github.com/ruby/json/pu...

Release v2.8.0 · ruby/json What's Changed Emit a deprecation warning when JSON.load create custom types without the create_additions option being explictly enabled. Prefer to use JSON.unsafe_load(string) or JSON.load(strin...

And it's out: github.com/ruby/json/re...