Nithin Bekal

Minimal Sorbet with inline RBS comments

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#ruby #sorbet #rbs

Google Antigravity: First Impressions

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#ai

A way to undo file deletion would be amazing! Accidentally deleted an old daily note, and needed some time to figure out which one it was in file recovery.

Last year, I finished 35 books, and there were lots of great reads amongst those. Here's my favorites:

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#books #booksky

Can Bundler Be as Fast as uv?

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#ruby #bundler #uv

Redesigned ruby docs page.

And while we're at it, the #Ruby docs website got a new look too!

Screenshot of the new ruby-lang website with code examples.

Loving the new design of the #Ruby website!

ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0

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#ruby #jit

Ruby 4.0.0 Released | Ruby We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0.Ruby 4.0 introduces “Ruby Box” and “ZJIT”, and adds many improvements.

Ruby 4.0 has been released! 🎉

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#ruby

What's new in Ruby 4.0?

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My recap of the highlights of the upcoming #ruby release.

Really enjoying the customizability of Obsidian Bases. Took just a few minutes to go from YAML front matter in notes to star ratings.

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#obsidian

After almost 3 years of using Logseq, I decided that it is too buggy to continue using. Decided to switch to Obsidian for note taking. Some notes:

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#logseq #obsidian

A mere add_foreign_key can wipe out your whole Rails+SQLite production table A single add_foreign_key in a Rails migration can obliterate a dependent table in your SQLite database. This is exactly what happened with my self-hosted error tracker, Telebugs.

A mere add_foreign_key can wipe out your whole Rails+SQLite production table

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#Ruby #sqlite

Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future?

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I still can't believe frozen string literals haven't become the default after all these years, and with a clear deprecation path. Ruby 4.0 is <2 months away, so I don't think it's happening this year either. :(

#ruby

Congrats, Stan, and thank you for all you do for Ruby DX! 🎉

Wakefield, QC A picturesque village along the Gatineau River

Found this article especially helpful because I've been meaning to generate open graph images for my photo albums website.

Testing a url here: photos.nithinbekal.com/albums/wakef...

#photography

Open Graph Image Generation in Rails - Avo Learn how to add the ability to automatically generate Open Graph images using Ruby to make our web pages more attractive on social media.

Open Graph Image Generation in Rails

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#rails

A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google YouTube video by Talks at Google

A Philosophy of Software Design

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Fantastic talk by John Ousterhout about software design. Looking forward to reading the book of the same name.

Also interesting to see that this is taking off just as Rails 8.1 is recommending mise.

I use mise, and love it, but having a uv-like experience for #ruby is a big selling point, so won't be surprised if #rails 8.2 recommends this instead!

rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool

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This is inspired by python's uv, so really excited for this project, having seen how much uv has influenced the python ecosystem in a short while.

rv doesn't support Intel macs yet, so I'll have to wait a bit to try it. #ruby

Stop memoizing Hash lookups in Ruby

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#ruby

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) YouTube video by Y Combinator

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

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#ai #llm

ZJIT has been merged into Ruby ZJIT has been merged into upstream Ruby. Learn about its architecture!

ZJIT has been merged into Ruby

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"ZJIT is a new just-in-time (JIT) Ruby compiler built into the reference Ruby implementation, YARV, by the same compiler group that brought you YJIT."

#ruby

Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5 Many Ruby applications allocate objects. What if we could make allocating objects six times faster? We can! Read on to learn more!

Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5

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#ruby

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Inline RBS comments support for Sorbet How Sorbet and RBS can work together to elevate your Ruby development experience

My teammate Alexandre Terrasa wrote a great post about using inline RBS with Sorbet.
We’ve been slowly adopting it at Shopify. And while we’re still improving Sorbet and all the supporting projects, it’s already working well!

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One benefit of #Sorbet is that it can make VSCode and Neovim almost on par with RubyMine's excellent behavior of being able to go to definitions and references from almost anywhere to anywhere. It helps so with debugging and refactoring. 
This is amazing in a dynamically typed language like #Ruby

... RBS can be the syntax for types and sorbet, steep, typeprof etc can be the frontends for it.

I agree that type annotations are too fragmented, which is why I'm excited about this change. Sorbet is miles ahead of other type checkers right now in terms of speed and usability, so it adopting RBS can only help consolidate things in the community. ...

Forgot to mention: the 2 main drivers behind this work: Alexandre Terrasa and Alexander Momchilov, will both be speaking at this year's RubyKaigi.

So definitely come to their talks and ask them questions to learn more about the challenges and visions behind it 😉