@fnordfish.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy - Robert

09 Mar 2026 15:45 +0000

Days since last bitten by Ruby String vs. Symbols: 0

13 Feb 2026 15:30 +0000

Hey frontend focused developer people. How do you deal with testing support for very old browsers? I *need* to support certain functions on your uncles G4 iMac. Is there a convenient way to restrict my browser to an older feature set?

12 Feb 2026 08:52 +0000

Is @rubygems search index broken for everyone, or just me?

29 Jan 2026 16:38 +0000

There's an opening: did-they-unfuck-macos-tahoe-yet.com did-they-unfuck-macos-yet.com

29 Jan 2026 10:00 +0000

TIL: mxNULL DNS record. Signals that this domain does not accept mail. Not having an MX is not sufficient, since the A record might be used as fallback.

23 Jan 2026 12:02 +0000

TodIL (The other day I Learned): Ruby Array has `<=>` ```ruby [0, 1, 2] <=> [0, 1] # => 1 [0, 1, 2] <=> [0, 1, 2] # => 0 [0, 1, 2] <=> [0, 2, 2] # => -1 [0, 1, 2] <=> [0, 1, 2, 3] # => -1 ```

17 Jan 2026 09:36 +0000

Ist there an easy* way of generating a list of all transitive dependencies of a Ruby project. Start at a Gemfile, get everything that’s required to test and build everything. *) since most gems define test dependencies in Gemfile, not gemspec, I’d probably we’d to download and unpack […] https://ruby.social/@fnordfish/115909758912411677

15 Jan 2026 13:29 +0000

I’m looking for a post “Ruby app deployments for the paranoid” - all dependencies are build on premise - production servers never build dependencies - …?

14 Jan 2026 15:48 +0000

Today is the first day I could use a beefier machine than my M3Max 64GB. Building so many things again and again.

07 Jan 2026 16:50 +0000

BTW Using https://better-mouse.com/ for a while now and never looked back to Logitech Software

26 Dec 2025 18:01 +0000

To everyone who is celebrating, have a happy and healthy #39c3

21 Dec 2025 14:03 +0000

Have yet to read the article. But. Docker is not a lock file. It’s a tarball of works-on-my-machine.

19 Dec 2025 13:54 +0000

I keep trying to use StringScanner, but then ending with something like that: ```ruby last_pos=0 while (content.match(/pattern/, last_pos) do |m| match_start = m.begin(0) last_pos = match_start + 1 # do funny stuff on content everywhere after match_start end); end ```

13 Dec 2025 10:23 +0000

Los it just me, or did #iOS 26.2 got darker in the “tinted” option? Even compared to the beta and RC versions.

08 Dec 2025 13:22 +0000

I'm sorry, but if you newsletter flushes 8 DDH posts into my mailbox, that's a direct unsubscribe.

07 Dec 2025 09:26 +0000

Random thought: OS distributions are just huge lockfiles

02 Dec 2025 07:48 +0000

That’s the folks running rubygems now? https://narrativ.es/@janl/115645700683327846

27 Nov 2025 15:18 +0000

Indeed it seems to be a filesystem quirk: ``` ls ß ls: ß: No such file or directory touch ss ls -i ß ss 196004546 ss 196004546 ß ``` https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/h4N78m1PjXYsYfzkGV

18 Nov 2025 17:08 +0000

dev-product page: "[...] has AI built in to help you [...]" /close

25 Oct 2025 14:35 +0000

Good things happening for the wrong reasons part N+1: `AGENTS.md` and general recommendations to write better documentation so that LLMs can “understand” them.

24 Oct 2025 14:48 +0000

General rule of thumb when creating a new SQL DB schema: For your ordinary primary key, instead of per-table auto increment, use a system wide unique ID from a single sequence or generator. So that no records in your system ever have the same ID. The amount of bugs I caught early with that […] https://ruby.social/@fnordfish/115429689906891536

20 Oct 2025 14:40 +0000

[Snark, nonsense] I'm telling you, someone at AWS thought it would be a great idea to just replace that fragile DNS with some clever AI!

17 Oct 2025 15:44 +0000

We are currently replacing storage layers of a grown Ruby (off Rails) app, that strictly uses command patterns. And I have to say, it’s was so worth doing it.

17 Oct 2025 15:30 +0000

TBH. This new Ruby taking stewardship of Rubygems and Bunder is actuallya good thing. BUT - and I can’t put this in big enough letters - nothing on how we got there is even remotely reassuring.