I finally set up a Bluesky account. You can find me at bsky.app/profile/rbates.dev I'll continue to post on Twitter/X as well.

What an awesome little game Replicube is. It’s like Picross 3D meets shader programming. The puzzles are a fun challenge and the interface is charming. Thanks @walaber! walaber.com/replicube

90% of the Ruby code I’ve written the past few years has been class methods without shared state. The code has clearer dependencies and is easier to read, test and maintain. OOP has its place, but I don’t think it fits the majority of web-app logic.

Whenever you’re tempted to reuse a method that *almost* does what you want: Stop, duplicate the method, make the modifications, and then refactor the actual duplication.

I Googled “capybara drag_to” and the results caught me by surprise.

Anyone else find GitHub code diffs near impossible to use in Safari lately? Slows to a crawl and/or doesn’t render.

What’s everyone using these days to cross-post between Bluesky/Mastodon/X?

Ruby’s metaprogramming is like a forbidden fruit. Always there tempting me, and I almost always regret using it.

I love how Ruby handles keyword arguments. I miss them in just about every other language.

After working with Roc and Gleam for a while, full type inference is amazing. Now I want a procedural language with full type inference.

I wonder why more functional languages don't support local mutability within the scope of a function. It is convenient and still keeps the function pure.

Anyone participating in Advent of Code this year? I’m doing it in Gleam: github.com/ryanb/advent-2024…

Git tip: What if you want to amend an earlier commit? I have this function in my dotfiles. gfix() { git commit --fixup $1 && git rebase -i --autosquash $1^ } Stage changes and run `gfix <commit-sha>`. This will open interactive rebase in your editor so you can review.

Git tip: I like to keep a clean git history on my local branch. I often run `gcn!` to amend the staged changes to the previous commit. This is an alias I stole from oh-my-zsh. alias gcn!='git commit --verbose --no-edit --amend'

Tip for mac users: Make a shell script of `defaults write` commands to set up macOS the way you like it. Then just run the script when setting up a new system. (see macos-defaults.com/ for possible commands)