Linear has a 30-minute weekly meeting called "Quality Wednesdays." I sat through one and WOW Devs show a quality or perf-related fix they did last week. It can be big, or small. We went through 17 issues, from massive backend performance wins, to this tiny one. Can you see it?

You know what’s missing from my life? A digital ID card.

The problem with the belief that “everything is political” is that it makes everything else just as toxic and divisive as politics.

I’ve written Ruby for several hours a day, almost every day of my life, for seventeen years. I have spent the last several hours debugging an issue, because I thought Array#first accepts a block!

In most cases, the words "fetch", "get", "load" etc. in your code are redundant. You can just not write those, and your code will be as—or more—readable

Barbour jackets are to jackets what dreadlocks are to hair

DHH Quardart Seisey I agree.

A spectacular example of Orwellian doublespeak from the UK Home Secretary: "Just because you have a freedom doesn’t mean you have to use it at every moment of every day." In fact the ability do something whenever you want is practically the definition of a freedom.

Rolling your own work is going to be a superpower in the decades ahead.

What are people using for email client these days? I’ve used Spark for years now, but I feel their latest UX is completely the wrong direction for me (more barriers to accessing and seeing my mail). I’ve tried Notion’s email client, which seems to have excellent AI

Edinburgh and Scotland based Rubyists. Come along to ScotRUG tomorrow, where I’ll be talking through how to build language models using Ruby lnkd.in/dU95PV_a

For anyone who’s curious to see my Frankenstein NGram language model, the full code is here github.com/Bodacious/Ruby…

I don’t understand why the emphasis is on job creation? It seems a bit Keynesian to me. Shouldn’t the focus be on cost per unit? The cost of energy affects the entire economy.

I’ve gotten to the stage of learning Arabic where I throw the odd erratically misplaced German word in a sentence. 🤗

I never understood the purpose of fridge magnets until I had kids.

I love Notion as a note taking, documentation app. But their email client is probably the worst I’ve used. It’s painfully slow on iOS.

I’m disappointed to see that GitButler is still basically unusable on large projects. I’ve been trying it out every few weeks to see if it has gotten more stable, because I’m really rooting for this project. But it invariably crashes or freezes after a few hours

There are few tweets that will help you understand the state of British politics better than this one.