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Ruby Weekly August 7th edition highlighting "Whats wrong with the json gem api" by jean boussier and "The /o in regex stands for oh the humanity!" by JP Camara

I've been reading Ruby Weekly since - let me check my inbox - *SPITS OUT WATER* - 2013?!? And that was already the 126th edition 😱 @cooperx86.bsky.social you are a machine!!

It's always been one of my top Ruby resources, so it's extra fun to be included in it!

rubyweekly.com/issues/762

Once you've set your preferences, it becomes a simple as this. No memory, no "chats", just ask a question and you're done. It's for simple, disposable queries.

I was tired of LLM clients having context, "chats", etc. Often I just want to fire off a quick prompt and get a quick response. So I built this for me, but you can use it too: peterc.org/zerocontext/ .. all client-side, you can save the HTML and use it locally if you like. Uses OpenRouter.

The Bluesky Dictionary Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Well this is your chance to find out.

The meaning of this post is quite guessable if you check out the www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...

A little Apricot Computers as well

Caligra is a new computer company. The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate your work.

I dunno what they're up to, but this British made computer is kinda neat looking, as is the weird Linux variant they're building for it: caligra.com

Just waiting for a foreign state to fund a free VPN that takes off in the UK, if they haven't already. The ultimate honeypot.

BTW, if you need to message me, go to my homepage peterc.org and email me. Bluesky doesn't allow DMs anymore and I'm not submitting my personal info to them 😂

Thundercat is the modern day Michael McDonald. Any time he turns up on a song, he instantly elevates it far beyond it'd be on its own.

Discovered it's "weird" to use your last name in takeout situations, but I always have. First name is too personal for something like that IMO, it just feels inappropriate to me.

Logically that would make sense, but it surely can't have been. Possibly it had a ton of examples/source/docs that compressed very well! I'll dig it out of abandonware sometime and take a look.

Holy shit, it just hit me that I've been programming in five different decades.

The Apricot was fire though. A very "designed" computer for the time and it had a sort of early equivalent of the Touchbar on the keyboard. Basically extra function buttons you could program with a LCD display above. Kinda far out for the 80s.

Apricot Archive Apricot's first 100% IBM compatible business microcomputer.

My first PC is harder to pin down. Technically it was the Apricot Xen-i – apricot-archive.co.uk/xen-i-286 – but I briefly had an RM Nimbus before that (with no HDD) .. it pretended to be a PC (and had an 80186 CPU!) but wasn't /really/.

I know I'm easily outgeeked here, but my first HDD was 20MB. Then a couple years later, 100MB, and I remember having to delete lots of stuff so I could install Borland C++ which was a whopping 40MB at the time. 👨‍🦳

I remember when 10+GB hard drives first came out and I was like.. nah, I can't trust that, that's just way too much data in one place. Meanwhile, Seagate's newest drive is 30TB, some 3000 bigger 😄

Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale (preview) | Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 Vectors is a new cloud object store that provides native support for storing and querying vectors at massive scale, offering up to 90% cost reduction compared to conventional approaches whil...

Amazon S3 Vectors is interesting but it feels like they couldn't be bothered to launch a new AWS service with a new name, and awkwardly shoehorned a concept into a place it doesn't quite belong? aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in...

This is the best decade for popular music since the 90s.

I was looking at this map of the world 105 million years ago (with present land overlaid) and noticed all the oil producing regions of the world were shallow seas then (light blue). That's no coincidence, but I'd never seen it before and I never listened in science class 😏

(Given it would affect almost the entire world if it were Cloudflare, it is ~99% my imagination, or that I need to restart my computer, but you never know.. 😅)

YouTube video by MoozoTek Clement Freud - The £20 Joke

I once did that and when I got home my wife thought I'd been drinking. So I got some money out and said someone spilt a drink on me and gave me £20 for dry cleaning. She said why do you have £40, and I said oh because he also shit my pants.

(An old joke stolen from www.youtube.com/watch?v=g17D...)

The past few days I've noticed many (but not all) Web pages are taking longer to begin rendering – just a second or so. Then I remembered Cloudflare has turned on that anti-AI crawling stuff. Just making a note in case it turns out to be a story and not my imagination.

Photo of Peter Cooper, the founder & editor of Postgres Weekly (as well as 6 other popular developer newsletters that reach nearly half a million developers each week), wearing dark framed eyeglasses, a Hawaiian shirt, and with just a hint of a smile on his face

🎙️ New #TalkingPostgres #podcast episode!

Peter Cooper joined to talk about 12 years of Postgres Weekly—with QBASIC Usenet fanzines, the BBC big tent, lots of #PostgreSQL, weekly newsletters for 460K devs, & 1 very cheesy story 🧀

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/12-...
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Changed my mind: AI is actually good for coding I've been skeptical of AI development tools. Not because I'm anti-progress, but because the demos often feel over-hyped. Too many 'AI will replace developers' takes, too many one-shot coding videos th...

@justinjackson.ca Links in justinjackson.ca/ai-coding are pointing to ConvertKit preview links

Or many prolific authors and solo musicians.

Not easily. I have wiped avatars for people when they don't want them anymore so they just get the default one. Avatars are going entirely in the next version though. If you give me your GH username, I'll see what I can do though.

Many people seem to be bothered by demographic change, but I think I have more in common with modern day Brits of different ethnicities and religions than I would with my great-great-great grandparents. It's surely a personal thing, but zeitgeist seems more important than heritage to me.

Totally. I know so many like this. I really don't get how full self driving can work in a road culture where jostling and going off split second gut feelings are essential. In the US they'd slap lights on junctions like that or at least stop signs with an ordered progression of right of way.

Bad/wrong signage is very common in the UK. I'd go as far to say that it's impossible to have never broken the law as a British driver if you always drive safely, sensibly, and in a way suitable for the conditions.

Watching a driving school dashcam video and I'd love to know how a full self-driving system would tackle this situation. Improperly placed roadworks sign. The driver in question followed the sign (stricti iuris) and nearly had a head-on collision.