tooling in emacs fell behind, I still kind of miss it, but am happy to not be maintaining a bunch of emacs hacks these days

This is truly cursed, I love it, and I expect no less from @jhawthorn.com

Peaches, Gardening, and Japanese beetles I was recently asked how I get such nice peaches and for tips on winterizing / care… I kind of laughed as I don’t really do anything in particular. I thought my response was kind of hum…

Just in case someone did want to read a fun rant on growing peaching in Denver, here it is millermayersadventures.com/2025/07/27/p...

LOL, no one seemed to want to hear about gardening... So I guess I will need to write about tech again... Well I got one shot, fairly good consistent characters, working so perhaps I can write a post about that.

Rack middleware is so awesome. I love the idea of adding to the env for downstream consumers. flipper and flipper cloud do it like crazy to work together efficiently. Just added a middleware to tag all appsignal requests with the requesting flipper gem version, ruby version, etc.

Tomatoes

Peaches

Peaches

My motivation on tech blogging got killed, got a lot of anger for posts about AI and using AI images for blog images... So I haven't been on social much either... Anyways, not ready to blog about tech again yet but do folks want to hear about gardening at all?

Today's tomato and peach harvest

what is the first tech you remember getting super excited about and then it just disappeared into a dead path of tech history.

I think of XSLT for XML... I wasted a good portion of time (and my youth) trying to force it into a bunch of projects that didn't need it.

it's other attempt was also interesting, but didn't actually match what my app does, and it still didn't use any of the imagery or the site UI

I tried making some videos to show what the AI book builder could do, but while it got the idea, it didn't seem to be able to pull in any of the screenshots or real-world UI I gave it as context. Anyways, first attempts using Google's Veo 2 generator. It was supposed to promote app.pretheory.com

An article titled "How the Web Became Unreadable", posted on Medium. There is a soft paywall asking you to sign in, covering most of the article. Screenshot found on Mastodon https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/114497234942335666

@flippercloud.io wins again!

Discovered a bug in a new UI we’re rolling out on a Friday afternoon. Rather than rush for a fix (and introduce other bugs) we can simply…roll back the change and figure it out next week.

Screenshot of a terminal that demonstrates 6x faster object allocation

I will write a blog post about this when the PR lands, but Ruby 3.5 should have 6x faster object allocation

that is how I felt for a long time, but recently with Claude Code and a few targetted MCPs and custom commands... the velocity has started to pick up for many smaller tasks.

ok, folks, my old Kindle bit the dust... I am going to get a new one, Do you have any thoughts on the color Kindle? Scribe? or just paperwhite?

That could be fun as I stopped brewing beer... Nice

how is it no one is making guitar hero or rock band games anymore? I blame the split where they were both just oversaturating market imploded... But I wanted to introduce it to my kids and realized there are no games with instruments like that anymore... I am sure there is still a market for it.

Generating PHP code via Ruby erb, then after the Ruby erb was done it was processed by PHP for a movable type blog.

More explicitly recommend json · jhawthorn/rapidjson-ruby@9292377

@byroot.bsky.social @bihi.bsky.social Very happy to deprecate my library thanks to all your work on JSON 🎉 github.com/jhawthorn/ra...

Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes.

I wrote a blog post about how we can make FFI faster in CRuby railsatscale.com/2025-02-12-t...

Boulder Ruby Feb 2025 Presentation Night · Luma Join us at our monthly gathering where we present topics of interest to Rubyists and aspiring programmers. Doors open at 6:00pm, where you can hangout and…

Tonight is Boulder Ruby with two fantastic talks lined up:
💫 Landon Gray: "Jupyter notebooks with Ruby"
🔌 Anthony Eden: "From Stalled to Supercharged"
📅 👉 RSVP: lu.ma/e37ect5e?tk=... Thanks to
@github.com, @dnsimple.bsky.social, MojoTech, @fastly.com, and @gustohq.bsky.social for sponsoring!

Rails async queries by example Learn the benefits of Rails async queries with Rails 7+ and the gotchas to look out for.

New from Julie Kent:

Imaging you have a Rails endpoint that has slow queries AND performs third-party HTTP requests. With Rails async queries, you can perform these operations in parallel—without being an expert in multithreading. 🚀

www.honeybadger.io/blog/rails-a...

Ruby Caches - Improving Caching Via Tooling

How to drive improvements in a gem with tooling... working with benchmarks and profiling to make repeatable performance improvements

www.mayerdan.com/ruby/2025/02... #ruby #vernier

As I celebrate another Super Bowl by doing silly tech learning things... here is the history of the Super Bowl as told by a time-traveling whale... as imagined by AI writing and illustrating the story.

www.pretheory.com/books/wilbur...

some fun reflections from a developer...

> Distributed locking is still really hard for some reason
lol, yeah...

chriskiehl.com/article/thou...

it's also blown me away to see the impact beyond my own learning that this TIL repo has had

- @jwworth.bsky.social built til.hashrocket.com
- @simonwillison.net has been prolifically TIL'ing at til.simonwillison.net
- I often get emails from ppl who were inspired to start their own TIL repo

Like mostly you don't want any of your Ruby throughput taken up by such things... But I have seen wins with threads in many apps and seen it not work in some with more CPU contention issues

Maybe but for static assets and such you will always see an even better overall throughout win by using nginx or a CDN. Or are these dynamic images.

I was emailing with Pat and saying an amazing chapter would be covering the current ruby implementation, then explaining the PR, issue, and discussions to change an API in Ruby then detailing the new implementation in the book. It would help folks understand what goes into changing a Ruby

It is really helpful as supplemental learning but I feel like to truly reach conversational levels you need a bit more than just Duolingo. Amazing for my kids at it reenforces their Spanish learning and helps with reading

I can't wait for the update to Ruby Under the Microscope... So good

patshaughnessy.net/2025/1/28/up...