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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · 3d

100% this! So good to see #RubyFriends that I haven’t bumped into in years!

Thank you @jremsikjr.bsky.social for your love and labor bringing XORuby to Portland.

San Diego, you’re up next! Don’t miss it.

Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 3d

At @xoruby.com Portland today with some old friends, new friends, and a whole lot more connection than is possible over Zoom.

We’re establishing a Return to Conference Policy.

A photo featuring Shane Becker taking a photo of the video camera display with Kayla Roepelle speaking on Open Telemetry.

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · 4d

Hey Portland #RubyFriends! Hope to see you at #xoruby tomorrow! www.xoruby.com/event/portla...

Portland

Green. Creative. Weird.

www.xoruby.com

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Sep 2

Found my hotel 🥸

#RailsWorld

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’ll be there for the jokes. See you soon!

Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · May 24

@possibilogy.bsky.social welcome Tim! 👋

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Apr 28

The domain vibe.accountants is available. Just sayin'

vibe.accountants

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Apr 11

LLM's didn't exist when Joel coined the term "Leaky Abstraction" in this post. It's aged well.

Source: www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/t...

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Apr 11

Joel Spolsky wrote this in 2002:

"Code generation tools which pretend to abstract out something, like all abstractions, leak, and the only way to deal with the leaks competently is to learn about how the abstractions work and what they are abstracting"

The law of leaky abstractions means that whenever somebody comes up with a wizzy new code-generation tool that is supposed to make us all ever-so-efficient, you hear a lot of people saying “learn how to do it manually first, then use the wizzy tool to save time.” Code generation tools which pretend to abstract out something, like all abstractions, leak, and the only way to deal with the leaks competently is to learn about how the abstractions work and what they are abstracting. So the abstractions save us time working, but they don’t save us time learning.

And all this means that paradoxically, even as we have higher and higher level programming tools with better and better abstractions, becoming a proficient programmer is getting harder and harder.

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Apr 11

JACKPOT

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Apr 11

Vibe coding with @jmcharnes.bsky.social at Sin City Ruby

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Jan 23

Love the "best year of my life so far" energy! 😍

I'll admit I've only skimmed it so far, but what a year! Thanks for sharing, Marco. I'm glad our paths crossed in 2024 and hope they do again this year!

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Dec 13

Why??? 😇

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Dec 13

I’d be there!!!

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Dec 3

Big 1Password fan here so this is exciting news!

blog.1password.com/1password-jo...

1Password joins the Rails Foundation: Strengthening the community, empowering developers | 1Password

1Password is joining the Rails Foundation as a core member. Learn more about the announcement and what it means for Kolide and other 1Password products.

blog.1password.com

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Dec 3

Awesome! This is welcome news.

Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Nov 21

JSON, or anything that can be indexed when ingested without fancy parsing. I want to query/filter logs without jumping through hoops.

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Nov 21

Yes, that's valid! Shared my thoughts in another reply: bsky.app/profile/benj...

Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Nov 21

I agree with this! Redirect in before action is okay because it'll halt the filter chain and the action method will never be called 👍

Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Nov 21

I agree with this! Redirect in before action is okay because it'll halt the filter chain and the action method will never be called 👍

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Nov 21

I feel that Rails controller actions should be directly responsible for rendering or redirecting. That is to say, you shouldn't render/redirect six method calls deep/buried in some concern.

I don't think this is a hot take, but this rule is broken so commonly I'm beginning to wonder.

Thoughts?

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Nov 16

lol wat

Reposted by Benjamin Wood

Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · Nov 14

We at @evilmartians.com carefully curated a list of dev tool founders: go.bsky.app/FRhL5Pa

If you are building for developers, start here 👇👇👇

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hey Mike! 👋

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Nov 10

What a legend. Jim taught me this some years ago. Those good deeds often do come back around, but if that’s your motivation, it’s not genuine.

Do it because you love people and want them to succeed!

Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · Oct 29

Genuinely desire success in those around you and do what you can to make it happen.

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · Nov 7

We’re planning to meet the first Wednesday of every month. Same time/location.

No mailing list or slack/discord community yet but that will come eventually.

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