I’m vegan but I’ve got a killer fake meat craving all the time. I eat more fake meat than I ever did real meat. Nuggs and Impossible (both spicy) chicken nuggets are the bomb

I use Philips hue and totally hated when they started adding Bluetooth to their products. Why anyone would need that is beyond.

Definitely going to take a hard look at this when I get the chance. I’ve been using VS Code for work (but it drives me crazy) and Smultron for personal stuff but it’s more of a basic editor.

It sure is, but I write code primarily in Ruby (which it doesn’t really support).

This is so relevant to an issue I’m having. It turns out a spelling mistake caused all my API calls not to quote the services needed. So basically thousands of dollars thrown away because I fucked up.

But… why is their API not raising when I send unknown data? Sounds very susceptible to hacking. And of course when I press the issue I get ignored. I hate this industry (shipping).

100% agree. Sometimes I start a comment and realize I’ve either explained exactly what it’s doing and delete it or just update my variables to be more concise.

My job doesn’t like when I document the parameters and return type/value of methods. I think that that is really important in a dynamic language like Ruby and sets expectations that the method should ONLY return that type.

Completely agree, I didn’t mean to imply that macOS’ BSD foundation is exactly like Linux. It isn’t. I just think it happens to be much more similar to Linux than Windows.

Everyday while I’m working from home I get alerts about “gas smell,” “gas leak,” and all the related fires that come with it. Right now they’re repairing a gas line just a few blocks from me.

It’s time to move on. Seriously we have 100% renewable electricity where I’m at. Why are we putting up with this shit?

Personally staying away from Windows is a huge plus for me. I don’t want to read every caveat about how “this part sucks because Windows is trash” everywhere in the documentation. I do my best stay away from that mess.

I loathe JavaScript heavy websites, especially when used for forms. Don’t break autofill and copy/paste. And don’t complain about the format just because I pasted! Seriously, why is pasting text in the correct format triggering some JavaScript framework? It all seriously gets to me.

With that said, I really like Hotwire. HTML over the wire is bliss. Stimulus is perfect for sprinkling non-invasive JavaScript throughout an application.

Long term Ruby developer here; I did a coding bootcamp that focused on Django and hated it. The language feels like a step down. Crystal on the other hand…

…but it can be nice to dabble.

I’m a Ruby developer but recently needed to solve a problem from within a non-Ruby Kubernetes container.

If I stuck with what I know I would’ve had to include the entire Ruby runtime into a totally unrelated application’s image.

Knowing exactly how to solve the problem in Ruby but not wanting to add hundreds of Ruby scripts everywhere, I found Crystal was the perfect fit for my needs.

I was able to write a slim sidecar container. The Dockerfile compiles it into a static binary, trashes the entire toolchain (FROM build) and the resulting image is just a few megabytes.

I’d kill for an IDE on macOS that uses the native UI. I guess my hot take when it comes to GUI applications is: respect the platform you’re running on. Your core codebase should be separate from the UI in a way that the application looks like it was written by Apple on macOS, Microsoft on Windows, Google on Android, etc.

I could go on forever about this but some examples:

• VS Code, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc all lose their minds and crash when moving a file while it’s open on macOS, a limitation that doesn’t exist in UNIX-based file systems. Did they port some FAT/NTFS driver somehow? You also can’t Command + Click the title of the document to pull it up in Finder.
• Firefox, while I love it to death looks like a clunky Windows application
• Oh yeah, Google Chrome looks way off too
• GIMP looks like GTK because it is GTK on macOS, Windows
• Electron apps that are just wrappers around websites

I also think a lot about how I might extend whatever I’m implementing. It’s helped me to make classes more generic and keep things laser-focused so that blocks/methods/classes are reusable.

Nothing grinds my gears like seeing the same block all over a codebase especially if each are just slightly different (time to subclass).

Hmm, I’m conflicted on this. For some context, I’m a self-taught developer programming for 10 years but programming professionally just under five years. Believe it or not I didn’t really learn to write tests until about a year ago.

I feel I’ve been killing it at work with small, simple unit tests but I do test just about any new method I write. A lot of that has to do with type checking and a lot of the methods would have huge consequences if they were off.

I actually love that they’re so brittle because it quickly catches problems that need fixing. But lately I’ve abstracted away some things that are easier to test at the class level.

I’m a Ruby developer but I’ve been feeling like this for awhile now. These days I’m very good at ensuring methods return specific types but Crystal is looking pretty good to me.

Huh? macOS is a lot closer to Linux than Windows.

iT’s SeLF dOcUmenTiNg 🥴

Possibly, I’ve been putting off EDI for a long time now.

I work all day with Kubernetes, remote servers, web applications and stuff like that. We’re usually trying to conserve resources for the actual apps we run — it wouldn’t make any sense to install an entire GUI / desktop OS on these things.

At home I manage my router, server, NAS almost exclusively from the terminal. There’s just no reason to use a GUI. GUI kind of sucks, you have to move your hand away from the keyboard to point and click, it’s far more constrained and for the most part it only serves as a wrapper to more advanced functionality.