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I'm very happy to announce that Programming Ruby 3.2, the fifth edition of the Pickaxe Book, is now available in beta at pragprog.com/titles/ruby5/pr….
It covers Ruby up to and including the not-yet-released Ruby 3.2.
A thread of information about the book:
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Dites « en vélo » si ça vous chante (on dit bien « en trottinette »), virez ce putain de f à clé, ce i à ognon, ce l en trop à interpeler, écrivez bonhommes si vous prononcez bonhommes, le seul truc qui importe c’est que vous mettiez pas de s à km.
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The golden age of web design
2Advanced Studios v2 flash website in 2001
#WebDesignHistory
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The journey is done. 267 docking stations visited by bike in 13h 26m (incl food stops). I did the whole journey on Santander Cycles bikes, due to a flat tire on my bike at the start. Had some tech issues with keys but generally it worked well. Thanks Joe and Jeyda. #allthedocks
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Ne me demandez pas comment mais je suis tombé sur AMSTERDAMNED, un thriller qui se passe dans les canaux d'Amsterdam et ça a l'air TROP BIEN
youtube.com/watch?v=frPRkkh6…
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Many imagine that a move towards more plant-based diets requires *more* cropland.
This is not true.
We would free up land used to grow crops for animal feed.
Just half of the world's cereals go directly to food for humans.
From my article: ourworldindata.org/land-use-…
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People often ask if they should use tau instead of pi, but the answer is that usually you don't need either. Most uses of those constants are because of functions that take radian parameters, which is almost always a bad idea:
computerenhance.com/p/turns-…
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I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside".
I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇
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PARIS: 30 SUVs deflated last night and this morning around Cité Vaneau. Listen to that lovely hissssssssssssssssssssss!
Take action where you are: tyreextinguishers.com/how-to…
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🚋 Sous le goudron, les rails ! Avenue Ledru-Rollin, les travaux de la voirie ont dévoilé d’anciens rails du tramway : le passé ferroviaire de la capitale et le présent se rencontrent…
C'est parti pour un petit #thread spécial archéologie ferroviaire parisienne ! ⤵️
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alright so we decided to actually test 2000+ readers with & without this and.... there's no statistical improvement in speed
i was pretty 🤯 details:
blog.readwise.io/bionic-read…
it’s incredible how reading this feels like finally unlocking 100% of your brain
(via @christophepas)
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FIRST ACTION IN FRANCE! 🇫🇷🥖 (And new actions in Wellington, NZ and Gothenburg, Sweden)
Around 100 SUVs disarmed in the swanky 16th Arrondissement of Paris over the weekend.
Also: around 15 SUVs deflated in the Oriental Bay, Wellington, and 22 in Örgryte, Gothenburg.
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🧶 Les #Landes en feu
Le dérèglement climatique favorise sécheresses, canicules et feux de forets.
Cependant, le premier problème des Landes, on l’oublie souvent, c’est qu’il s’agit d’une monoculture intensive géante de pins.
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3 years later: @dm_0ney and I, finally staring down the barrel of a multilingual structured editor with character-for-character text entry
Don't know what possessed me but I actually wrote a semantically correct program in #fructure tonight instead of my usual gibberish. Above is the sequence of keystrokes which evoked it.
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Même une coopérative peut développer ses logiciels ! Découvrez l'histoire de Cyke, notre logiciel de cyclologistique, proposé dès aujourd'hui aux entreprises de livraison à vélo olvo.fr/posts/cyke-logiciel-…
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.@BetaGouv cherche à lancer un service d'envoi d'e-mails et de SMS pour le compte de l'administration française. ✉️📱🇫🇷 On cherche actuellement un·e dev principal·e pour nous aider à imaginer et mettre sur pieds le produit.
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