Replicube is an awesome little puzzle game. It’s like Picross 3D meets shader programming. The puzzles are a fun challenge and the interface is charming. Worth checking out! www.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.

We all have different apps with different requirements. If vanilla Rails is plenty then I think vanilla Rails does too much. dev.37signals.com/a-vanilla-ra...

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.

Hello all! I'll try to post on here along with Twitter/X and ruby.social.