Jared Norman

Got new portraits done. Just waiting on the final edits. Prepare for full tech bro thought leader mode.

I guess I should add this link to my article too. jardo.dev/rails-servi...

Service Objects Not your average method masquerading as a class behind a #call method

Another take on service objects. When will it end beautifulruby.com/code/servic...

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The wife's out of town. Time to roast some beets.

Emacs didn't exist yet, but Forth did. noelrappin.com/blog/2025/0...

Is Rake dead?
Absolutely not.

Should I switch all my projects to Bake?
Probably not worth the effort.

Is Bake nice to use?
I liked the API.

Does this project exist because Rake's argument handling is kinda weird and annoying?
Entirely possible. I can't rule it out.

I tried out Bake, an alternative task runner for Ruby. jardo.dev/lets-get-baked

Sorry to be guy who posts his meals, but these short rib quesabirria tacos I made last night were nuts.

Thanks! I live downtown!

If anyone is curious about the graffiti, here's the story. This is the only reversible falls in western Canada. It used to have two big boulders in it that were significant to the First Nations here, the Lekwungen people. In 1960, a local business owner dynamited them.

Here's the loop I did today!

Somewhere about there: maps.app.goo.gl/feam8gPBvs47...

Today, I ran the furthest I've ever run, 16.5km.

In a moment of serendipity, @jardo.dev and @jhawthorn.com made a nice last minute addition to my post with their recent regex abomination— errr, invention!

Thanks! There's almost always some great views on the seaplanes between Vancouver/Victoria. (Since they use VFR, they don't fly if the visibility is poor enough to ruin the view.)

Here are some views of where I was running yesterday, but from higher up. Also a ship that says "hmm". 🤔

The Forth rabbit hole just keeps getting deeper and more interesting.

It's good that someone finally answered the question, "what if you manually syntax highlighted your own programs *and* the colours affected their behaviour?" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorF...

You'll also get to see if I manage to actually complete a half marathon.

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As you may have noticed, I like taking pictures when I'm running. If you like the pictures, you should follow me on Strava.

It was an adventure because I was looking for the Siwash lookout, but went to the wrong one. Found it eventually though!

And a few more from the 11k adventure I did today.

I'm in Vancouver for the week, but didn't take the week off training. Here are some views from my 14km loop I did around Stanley park yesterday.

Crimes against Ruby are my favourite kind of crimes.

I'm going to be speaking at @xoruby.com Atlanta on September 13th. XO Ruby is a brand-new (traveling) single-day Ruby conference. If you're a Rubyist in the southeastern US, you should check it out! (And if not, take a look at other 5 stops this fall.)

It's extra embarassing this time because this isn't a Rails app. I wrote the glob that loads the *.rake files from lib/tasks myself.

It has been 0 days since the last time I accidentally named used the wrong file extension for rake tasks.

If you're still not curious: it involves a regular expression.

I can see I'm getting a lot of traffic because the post is at the top of Ruby Weekly, but make sure you read to the end. John Hawthorn showed me the worst way I've ever heard of to encapsulate code that needs to run only once, but may be called from multiple time from multiple threads.