Curious about how Rubocop works? Turns out it’s a nice real-life example of the Visitor pattern in #ruby. (Or at least one heavily inspired by it.).

RT @hrrsnbbnt: Yesterday I also published issue 18 of my Ruby on Rails newsletter! . This one is all about ✨ Rails Generators ✨ (duh) and f….

RT @_ko1: Cookpad has decided to discontinue support for the Ruby interpreter development team, and Endoh-san @mametter and I have been adv….

RT @simonw: A new post about prompt injection attacks, which I'm increasingly concerned about now that people are hooking LLMs up to extern….

RT @OngMaple: A lot of talk about being on the latest version of Rails and Ruby from @github blog post. Incidentally, I'm speaking @railsco….

Spent an outsized amount of time cleaning carpark data, but at least there's progress to show!

Why is it that confident people have the advantage.

Finally got back to trying to improve on this, kinda stupefied by how it still works (mostly) given only instructions, no examples 🤯

When I ask a question in ChatGPT, am I doing declarative programming.

Only 6 years late with my take on Horizon Zero Dawn: a simpler Monster Hunter with an engrossing story.

RT @nirvdrum: @kddnewton Abstractions are great, but they're best used if you understand what they're abstracting away (IMHO). You can be p….

It doesn’t handle every case right now (e.g. per day caps) but a majority seen correct, and it’s smart enough to recognise similar words (e.g. next == subsequent).

I write a couple of examples, end off with the text to parse, and get GPT3 to complete it:

Late to the party, but finally had a (boring) use case to try GPT3: extracting structured data from text. In my case, carpark rates. For example, here’s what the raw text looks like:

RT @kddnewton: Okay, based on reception, I'm going to do a blog series that I've dubbed "Advent of YARV". Every day I'll post a blog post….

RT @benjaminwood: Shopify has been building a Ruby language server! ⁦@vinistock is⁩ sharing a bit about what it takes to implement the fold….

Ironically this sat in my drafts for a long time, because of said self-doubt. Sharing drafts of it with others helped.

Still struggling with self-doubt as a dev, but doing a little better.

FIRST BUG . (a la “first blood” as in the unreal tournament / dota).

Excited to contribute strict keyword arg matching to Mocha, hope there aren’t any major bugs 🤞. Thanks @floehopper, @_byroot and @ChrisGSeaton for helping out!.

RT @swyx: you’ve been rejected? good. that means you tried something that wasn’t a sure thing. and a gatekeeper just gave you the most po….