@nithinbekal.bsky.social
Staff developer at Shopify. I mostly post about Ruby, Rails, Vim/Neovim and assorted programming related topics. Blog: https://nithinbekal.com/
Stop memoizing Hash lookups in Ruby
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Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
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#ai #llm
ZJIT has been merged into Ruby
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"ZJIT is a new just-in-time (JIT) Ruby compiler built into the reference Ruby implementation, YARV, by the same compiler group that brought you YJIT."
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Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5
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My teammate Alexandre Terrasa wrote a great post about using inline RBS with Sorbet.
We’ve been slowly adopting it at Shopify. And while we’re still improving Sorbet and all the supporting projects, it’s already working well!
railsatscale.com/2025-04-23-r...
One benefit of #Sorbet is that it can make VSCode and Neovim almost on par with RubyMine's excellent behavior of being able to go to definitions and references from almost anywhere to anywhere. It helps so with debugging and refactoring.
This is amazing in a dynamically typed language like #Ruby
... RBS can be the syntax for types and sorbet, steep, typeprof etc can be the frontends for it.
26.02.2025 03:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I agree that type annotations are too fragmented, which is why I'm excited about this change. Sorbet is miles ahead of other type checkers right now in terms of speed and usability, so it adopting RBS can only help consolidate things in the community. ...
26.02.2025 03:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Forgot to mention: the 2 main drivers behind this work: Alexandre Terrasa and Alexander Momchilov, will both be speaking at this year's RubyKaigi.
So definitely come to their talks and ask them questions to learn more about the challenges and visions behind it 😉
It's an idea my colleague Alexandre Terrasa and the team explored way back in 2020. But due to various challenges we couldn't make it work at the time.
Maybe 2025 will be the year to finally make it happen?
- 2020 PR: github.com/sorbet/sorbe...
- 2025 PR: github.com/sorbet/sorbe...
Sorbet now has (experimental) support for RBS comments for adding types to methods. Now the major type checkers for ruby are all converging towards RBS for annotations, and this could be huge for the future of types in Ruby!
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#ruby #sorbet
"My team's intern just found a critical bug by shitposting in our codebase" 😂😂😂
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So You Want To Remove The GVL From Ruby?
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A simple trick to understand Ruby’s lazy enumerator
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Beautiful visual demo of how lazy enumerators help avoid unnecessary work.
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Favorite books of 2024
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#books
Admittedly, these are small apps (largest is < 3k LOC) and I kinda cheated by having a script that does the version bumps, but even then it's a good sign about how stable things are right now!
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#ruby #rails
Ruby upgrades are so incredibly smooth these days!
I have 3 small hobby rails apps that I wanted to upgrade to Ruby 3.4, and it took me 20 minutes to upgrade and deploy them all! And 5 of those minutes were spent downloading the latest ruby.
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Rails for everything
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What's new in Ruby 3.4
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The next release of Ruby is just a week away. Dive into the latest features, including the new it block parameter, chilled strings, the Prism parser, and modular GC.
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avante.nvim: AI copilot in Neovim
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#neovim #ai
Optimizing page loads for Giscus comments
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Rails 8 authentication generator #rails #ruby
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