State of the world in general, but post triggered by China vs Japan re Taiwan.

No! I'll have to visit next time :).

Natural, diafragmatic breathing.

We concentrate on the exhalation, but in a "detached" way, so to speak, thinking without thinking.

Seconded, you looking awesome man!!!

Make sure to also read this amazing Gist “Ruby: The future of frozen string literals” written by Xavier Noria @fxn.bsky.social. If you read these 2 resources, should know everything there is to know about frozen string literals in Ruby.
gist.github.com/fxn/bf4eed2...

Exactly! The energy of a mechanical watch is stored in a coiled spiral (the "mainspring").

Some watches are able to show how much energy is left. That is called a "power reserve indicator".

Time reading, yes, that way. It is a digital watch with a mechanical movement.

Zeitwerk uses it too to have namespaces as hash keys.

Classes and modules are unique objects, and you cannot assume they implement the `hash` method as Hash needs it:

github.com/fxn/zeitwerk...

This has happened since forever. Remember Perl modules also packaged in the 2000s.

Argument was that some sysadmins want a consistent server managed by distro packages only.

Excuse for the arcane word "sysadmin" that I still love and miss.

In the console, queries have been printed by default (to STDERR) since a few versions:

> User.count
User Count (3.2ms) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "users"
=> 0

You don't see them?

Gusto needed it for deleting associations while splitting code, and it made sense.

Absolutely, if you want to commission upstreaming something that is of general interest and fits the vision of the framework, that is beyond awesome.

And that is right there directly contributing to Rails.

That is looking terrific!

(/me whispers Symbol#upcase :).

Congrats! And those gloves! 😀