Microservices or not, one of the best things you can do to improve your own productivity is to have a fast, local development environment setup with minimum dependencies and ways to introspect isolated parts of your codebase.

Some weekend reading for you: patshaughnessy.net/2022/1/22/visi…

Just posted: “LLVM IR: The Esperanto of Computer Languages” patshaughnessy.net/2022/2/19/llvm…

Every single blog post of Pat is a real gem if you're interested in #CrystalLang.

Ruby is cool 😎

Not so many Ruby devs use pattern matching. I admit, when I first saw the feature(v2.7), the case syntax was clunky. But that isn't the "case" anymore! In my next tweets I'll show you many cool & clean examples. So we become less jealous of Elixir / JS devs 😂 Destructuring 👇

I'm excited about newest Humble Bundle! Dedicated to the memory of Peter Eckersley, this bundle benefits EFF and Let's Encrypt. EFF Let's Encrypt No Starch Press Please share!

It’s time for Wasmtime One-Dot-OHHHH! Here’s how we made it: - Super fast 🚀 - Super safe 🔒 - Super production ready 🦾 Plus: Why use a standalone WebAssembly engine in the first place? bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmt…

Did you ever delete a whole table from rails console, while just trying to run some examples? 😓 From production...? 🥶😱 There is a way to remove that risk, by using its sandboxed mode. Check this out 👇

Sometimes when developing 👩‍💻 or debugging 🐛 in Ruby, you might want to copy an object from irb/pry into your text editor or a Rails console session. For a quick & dirty solution, you can use Marshal.dump + load 🛠 Let's take a look how it works 👇

A few thoughts on what I learned about the recruitment process from helping my son find his first job. Blame the Market All You Want: My Son’s First Job and Why an Inclusive Recruitment Process is Your Road to Retention go.workstep.com/blog/blame-the… #WorkStep

Lynn (finally free) What the heck

We're hiring an Editor. Please RT. indeed.com/job/editor-da2… No Starch Press

If you were reticent to use Mastodon because of its UX, I really recommend this new web client: elk.zone/home It's an open source progressive web app running Nuxt , focused on UX and web performance. Incredible that it's still in version alpha, the quality is 💯

【超朗報】HIGの日本語訳が公式で追加されたぞ！！！ developer.apple.com/jp/design/huma…

Ruby Under a Microscope is part of the latest promotion from No Starch Press 👏- great time to pick up a copy if you haven't already

Nate Berkopec omg. Ask and ye shall receive. From today's Ruby Weekly, Pat Shaughnessy appears to be working on that very Ruby Under a Microscope update I've been wishing for! Thanks Pat! rubyweekly.com/issues/738 patshaughnessy.net/2025/2/11/usin… Unreal timing! <3

2️⃣ Pat Shaughnessy Pat Shaughnessy published an article about Parsing: How Ruby Understands Your Code Read about how the Ruby parser is going through the code and it takes you through a journey about how Ruby makes sense of the syntax and the internal representation of it.