Jakob Skjerning

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

The motor on my standing desk broke a while ago (in seated height, luckily 😁) and I miss the variation. Definitely worth it to me.

If you were to believe what you see our there, *everyone* is using AI to vibe code all day long...

Turns out, the majority of devs aren't even using it at all???

Full survey here: survey.stackoverflow.co/2025

Pretty much all our projects sits on top of a single relational DB, and some have a key/value store for caches (usually Redis’ish), even fewer have a documentish database for searches.

La Linea var en genistreg ❤️

How to fix ld: library not found for -lzstd installing mysql2 If you get an ‘ld: library not found for -lzstd’ message when installing the mysql2 gem, this might just be the fix.

MySQL is the gem that keeps on giving 🙄 #ruby #rails #mysql #howto

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The /o in Ruby regex stands for “oh the humanity!” Your code using the /o modifier Source: wikipedia Hi there! Do you like Regex? Do you like performance? Do you like creating confounding bugs for yourself rooted in the mechanics of the Ruby VM itsel...

I took a journey into the heart of Ruby to learn the secrets of the /o regex modifier, and I emerged wiser, but also so deeply tired.
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Why shouldn't I be surprised that Google can't figure out how to communicate clearly and sends out false "Your price will increase" emails to customers on free plans... 🤦 #segmentationishard

I now have access to 20+ Stripe accounts 😱

Congratulations to Figma on their IPO at a ~$19B valuation! 👏

Another success story for companies built on Ruby. 💪

Designing the API for a ViewComponent Input Group Follow along as Jakob thinks out loud to come up with a sensible API for a set of customizable, general purpose form input components based on ViewComponent.

I spent a good part of yesterday thrashing about trying to figure out how I wanted the API for some view components to be. It wasn't until I actually started writing my thoughts down that I managed to get somewhere.

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‎Parallel Experiment ‎IMPORTANT:

Next installment in the Cryptic Killer series is Parallel Experiment. This games is much larger than the previous and the devs have added more traditional 2-player sequences - with varying degrees of success. The hint system is gone, unfortunately. apps.apple.com/app/id647754...

I’ve never had a good - or even acceptable - self checkout experience.

Dag 5 ser mere lovende ud vind mæssigt. For os er den første spænding at skulle under Langelandsbroen - der er 26ish meters frihøjde, vi stikker 25,5 meter op. 🤞 #fynrundt2025 #fylla

Flot og solrig dag på vandet uden meget race. En times tid efter starten var der vist ikke kommet nogle skibe over startlinjen 😆 #fynrundt2025 #fylla

På Fylla på jeres styrbord side

Dag 4 byder på praktisk talt ingen vind. Sejlene kommer stille og roligt op mens vi venter på starten. I dag er vi spændte på om vi overhovedet kommer over startlinjen.

Vinker til @schakahahn.bsky.social via Bluesky 👋

Dag 3 fortsætter med godt vejr og god vind. En enkelt overhaling er det endda blevet til 😎 #fynrundt2025 #fyllat

Starten har lydt og (næsten) alle sejl er sat. Vinden er os nådig lige nu og farten ligger på 6+ knob 😍 #fynrundt2025 #fylla

Bestemt. Og det er også primært stemningen vi går efter 😁

Klar til afgang fra Assens. Verden ser meget mere tør ud i dag, men vinden ser ud til at svigte os i løbet af dagen. Oh well, det er vilkårene, bi satser på en god sejlads alligevel #fynrundt2025 #fylla

2-masted sailboat with all sails hoisted

Starten er gået i silende regn og Lilla Dan lægger stærkt ud med at tage vores vind i en overhaling #fynrundt2025 #fylla

En af den slags dage #fynrundt2025

Dag 1 er overstået og det viste sig at blive en absolut vindløs dag p vej til Middelfart. 🙄 #fynrundt2025

Så er der afgang fra Vejle. Selv uden sejl er det et imponerende syn

The stern of Fylla, a wooden, 3-masted schooner

Mit hjem den næste uges tid ⛵️ #fynrundt

*card transactions ffs

A screenshot of nets.eu showing an error page saying “the server is busy. Try again later”

This probably isn’t good. But it could explain why cats transactions are failing 😖

Unless you have 10,000 customers:

Approximately no one knows who you are.
Approximately no one knows your brand.
Approximately no one knows your product.

You can change everything, any time.

Take advantage of that.

😭

I don’t even know where the ones I do have are from.