Akshay’s Blog
Akshay’s Blog –I am a Ruby on Rails developer based in Victoria, BC. This blog is my attempt to spread the joy of building web applications in Ruby on Rails with the world.
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All my blog posts and articles
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June 2023
File: Advanced I/O with Polyphony Documentation for polyphony (1.1.1)
File: Advanced I/O with Polyphony — Documentation for polyphony (1.1.1) –
0008 – Guide to overloading in Python
0008 – Guide to overloading in Python –Overloading is giving multiple implementations to a function, based on what arguments it receives.
Rewriting the Ruby parser
Rewriting the Ruby parser –At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you through the motivations behind this work, the way it was developed, and the path forward.
Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?
Why did the #TwitterMigration fail? –I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…
Nova
Nova –The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.
Get the most out of Python dicts
Get the most out of Python dicts –I won’t make any dict joke
Community by the Numbers Part One: Group Thresholds
Opinion | How Shoddy Data Becomes Sensational Research
Opinion | How Shoddy Data Becomes Sensational Research –Academics are addicted to p-hacking, data torturing, and other statistical sins. We must break these habits.
Ruby 3.2 runtime now available in AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services
Ruby 3.2 runtime now available in AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services –Get started building with Ruby 3.2 today by making necessary changes for compatibility with Ruby 3.2, and specifying a runtime parameter value of ruby3.2 when creating or updating your Lambda functions.
Alternate Python REPL – bpython
Git is simply too hard
Git is simply too hard –Git is actually sooo hard. Not just to learn, but also to use consistently. And I say that as a person who used it for probably over ten years. Here’s my thoughts on the matter.
Concerns in Rails: Everything You Need to Know
Concerns in Rails: Everything You Need to Know –Concerns are an important concept in Rails that can be confusing to understand for those new to Rails as well as seasoned practitioners. This post explains what concerns are, how they work, and how & when you should use them to simplify your code, with practical, real-world examples.
Introduction to Rails Engines – FastRuby.io | Rails Upgrade Service
Introduction to Rails Engines – FastRuby.io | Rails Upgrade Service –An intro to Rails Engines are an architectural pattern that can be used to modularize or pack a Rails application. An article about this powerful f…
May 2023
pawurb/rails-brotli-cache: Rails cache using the Brotli algorithm offers better compression and performance.
pawurb/rails-brotli-cache: Rails cache using the Brotli algorithm offers better compression and performance. –Rails cache using the Brotli algorithm offers better compression and performance. – GitHub – pawurb/rails-brotli-cache: Rails cache using the Brotli algorithm offers better compression and performa…
How-To Add Recommendations to a Rails App with pgvector and OpenAI
How-To Add Recommendations to a Rails App with pgvector and OpenAI –Creating recommendations with pgvector, ruby-openai, and the neighbor gem.
‘Succession’ and the Future of Social Media
‘Succession’ and the Future of Social Media –Sssssaga of a glossssy and glittering our bosses. Article is much more interesting than the title promises.
Memory Allocation
Memory Allocation –For those of you learning C or C++, this article is a great and detailed tutorial. Also useful if you are studying operating systems.
Kanaries/Rath: Next generation of automated data exploratory analysis and visualization platform.
Kanaries/Rath: Next generation of automated data exploratory analysis and visualization platform. –Next generation of automated data exploratory analysis and visualization platform. – Kanaries/Rath: Next generation of automated data exploratory analysis and visualization platform.
GigaBrain – Search Reddit and Other Communities for Answers from Real People
GigaBrain – Search Reddit and Other Communities for Answers from Real People –GigaBrain finds the most useful discussions on reddit and other communities. We sift through the noise and analyze billions of comments for you. Get real answers from real people.