Francis Fish @fjfish@ruby.social
- Rubyist
- https://github.com/fjfish
- Socialist
- http://leftunity.org/
- Musician
- https://soundcloud.com/francis-fish
If you follow me and have never tooted anything it's really unlikely I will follow back
#TheyAreUs
Socialist
Coder
Systems thinker
Pre-internet
Writer (https://francis.fish and https://francisfish.com)
I love watching people grow
Joined Aug 2018
OOP: You’re Doing It Completely Wrong (Stir Trek Edition)
No Functional Differences Between Male And Female Brains, Finds Sweeping Review
Hi folks
Looking for remote UK based senior Ruby/Rails gig
From birdsite
Haven't read the article yet, but the cartoon is good
https://twitter.com/djswagerman/status/1359081905954713603/photo/1
Francis Fish
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Reading: “Google proposed Web Bundles could threaten the Web as we know it”
(Missed this when it first came out. Funny how Google proposes standards that benefit their business model, isn’t it?)
https://ghacks.net/2020/08/30/google-proposed-web-bundles-could-threaten-the-web-as-we-know-it/
Rough mix - Fronky
Francis Fish
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One of the very last events I attended before the lockdown was a thing in Silicon Valley attended by many old friends, but the best moment of all was the chance to hang out with Kim Stanley Robinson, a friend and inspiration.
That's when Stan told me he had just finished a book that might be his last-ever novel, The Ministry For the Future, and that his future work would be nonfiction, starting with his long-planned book about the Sierras.
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Today's conundrum
Why does the Node-Sass package (so I believe platform independent) get all complainy when I run it on my arm64 linux? Why does it care as long as it can do what it needs to do?
There doesn't seem to be a "shut up and try running anyway option".
The newbie super power
Francis Fish
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The promise: cloud services will make your computer faster by offloading work and storage.
The reality: 6000 daemons constantly syncing using 1000% CPU and filling up your disk with cache.
Rspec failing with no such method validate_uniqueness_of
https://francisfish.com/rspec-failing-with-no-such-method-validate_uniqueness_of/
Francis Fish
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'Read' and 'Lead' rhyme. And 'Read' and 'Lead' rhyme. But 'Read' and 'Lead' don't rhyme. And neither do 'Read' and 'Lead'.
Today I rediscovered the Ruby double splat operator
https://francisfish.com/today-i-rediscovered-the-ruby-double-splat-operator/
Really good vid about mutual aid
Wonderful interview with Brian Eno and the late David Graeber
Longplayer Conversation 2014: David Graeber and Brian Eno
@fearoffish *waves*
How's it going?
This explains an awful lot
- Rubyist
- https://github.com/fjfish
- Socialist
- http://leftunity.org/
- Musician
- https://soundcloud.com/francis-fish
If you follow me and have never tooted anything it's really unlikely I will follow back
#TheyAreUs
Socialist
Coder
Systems thinker
Pre-internet
Writer (https://francis.fish and https://francisfish.com)
I love watching people grow
Joined Aug 2018
