Also posting at [email protected], @jamisbuck.bsky.social
Smithfield, UT
Joined May 2007
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Not software, but I made a thing: "That One Time We Solved a Mystery" is a solo/co-op framework for any TTRPG to play mysteries with no preparation. I'm thrilled with how it turned out! I've had playtesters say it made them feel like "real investigators" ❤️
Check it out on itch.io (jamisbuck.itch.io/totwsam) and DriveThruRPG (drivethrurpg.com/en/product/…). Currently on sale for half off -- just $5!
You can get half off all e-books at pragprog.com/ through Dec 1. This includes "Mazes for Programmers" and "The Ray Tracer Challenge", by yours truly. Use code "save50" 🧠💕
Joseph Grosso posted a very thorough (and glowing!) review of my book, "The Ray Tracer Challenge": medium.com/@jogrosso/the-ray… -- includes tips for troubleshooting and optimizing your renderer!
Sentinel Comics RPG is an amazing system. I made a random character generator for it: jamisbuck.org/scrpg (repo: github.com/jamis/scrpg-charg…).
BASIC was developed in 1964. 31 years later, in 1995, Java came out. Here we are now, 30 years since Java's release, and it occurs to me that Java is now the BASIC of any language being developed today. 🤯
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Playing with maze generation in Swift & SwiftUI, with the great book "Mazes for Programmers" by @jamis!
Just finished converting an ancient cvs repo of mine to git, finally. Thread on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/jamisbuck.b…
Today, my wife and I are celebrating 10,000 days since we were married! We’ve ordered a few Lego(-ish) sets with a combined total of at least 10k pieces to celebrate. Feel free to do likewise :)
I’m very excited to be speaking at RubyConf next month, with Adviti Mishra. We’ll be talking about how we used fibers in a non-concurrent context to fix a stack overflow error caused by recursion. Come say hi!
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At @MongoDB, they wanted to add a tighter integration between #Rails and #Mongoid (their ODM), so they created their our own CLI tool that extends the Rails CLI, adding the additional functionality they sought. Join former Rails core alumnus and Capistrano-creator @jamis at #RailsWorld to see how they did it, and how you can do it yourself. rubyonrails.org/world/2024/d…
The forums for my ray tracer book are back up, after a hiatus of some months. #embarrassing -- forum.raytracerchallenge.com…
Rubygems' security page hints at discussions occurring on a mailing list, on IRC, and on a wiki, but in all three cases the discussions are more than a decade old. Are there any more recent (ideally, *current*) discussions around Rubygems security (and specifically gem signing)?
I'm excited to be in Toronto in September, for Rails World! I'll be speaking about some of the work I've been doing at MongoDB, extending the Rails CLI to work with our Ruby ODM, Mongoid, and showing how you can do the same. See you there!
Going through some old files on my server, I stumbled upon this bit of history: jamisbuck.org/ruby/rails-on-…
I also wrote jamisbuck.org/ruby/rails-on-… about the same time, which eventually culminated in jamisbuck.org/ruby/rails-inj… (just a month before I was hired by 37signals).