This Friday, I am speaking at @brightonruby. Going to claim that since Ruby 3.3 the Ractors are as smart and powerful as goroutines in Golang. #BrightonRuby

RT @DeliverooEng: New on the blog: looking back at the Roo Talks summer event we did, with talks from @daniel_vartanov @sheldonline @JamieT….

No, chatGPT will not replace programmers, but the programmers who use chatGPT will replace those who don't.

I think there should be templates for such things, even if they are opinionated. I started one, please feel free to fork and impose your opinionation.

Every time you start a new Rails project, you are to do the same stuff again: configure RSpec + headless browser, adopt Rubocop, set up tests parallelisation, maybe haml (and, therefore, haml-lint) and so on.

I couldn't even dream of it even a few years ago. What a time to be alive

Thanks to Go and Rust for a new wave of console utility tools: fd, ripgrep, lf, fzf. Both languages brought a new generation of devs to low-level programming. Seriously, thank you for that.

Me: learning how to cook & learning English. Youtube: How to Make Spotted Dick - The Victorian Way.

Finally, a well-written competitor to `mc` (midnight commander). I recommend everyone to try `lf`, an awesome file manager written in Go, btw.

Playing Half-Life nowadays is more relevant than ever

RT @teamouttalent: We are happy to announce that @daniel_vartanov, probably one of the most known and respected engineers out of Kyrgyzstan….

— Why didn't the skeleton go to the party?.— He had no body to go with. Finally Christmas jokes are getting somewhat better.

Being fully aware of how many "blockchain" startups are actually plain databases I now wonder whether a good part of "AI startups" are just trivial algorithms full of heuristics.

If you are new to linux/unix and find command line interfaces cryptic, here is a concise explanation of how CLI arguments are supposed to work, a sort of an official guideline:.

Quite soon I'll be free for a new job, project, contract or a venture. Please throw any suggestions at me, I'm still not sure what I'll be doing next. RTs with your comments are highly welcome. Thanks!.

Garmin ltd. has allegedly had a cyber break-in, all their data being hijacked by a ransomware. A friendly reminder that the crime is not the way of payment the ransom-askers are using (bitcoin), but the cyber-attack and ransom-asking. The regulators will claim the opposite.

"blearily", "reedy", "torpor", "teeming", "fervently" -- cheeses, pick a dictionary each time you read Harry Potter.

alias watch="watch -n0.2". am I the only one?.