File: Advanced I/O with Polyphony — Documentation for polyphony (1.1.1) URL: https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/polyphony/file/docs/advanced-io.md Type: link Domain: rubydoc.info Notes: Filed under things I didn’t know about IO with Ruby. Still love that language! This gem takes advantage of Unix “splices” to speed up IO when reading and writing large amounts of data.

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…

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Community by the Numbers, Part One: Group Thresholds URL: http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2008/09/group-threshold.html Type: link Domain: lifewithalacrity.com Notes: We often think of communities as organic creatures, which come into existence and grow on their own. However, the truth is they are fragile blossoms. Highlights: - {'text': 'We often think of communities as organic creatures, which come into existence and grow on their own. However, the truth is they are fragile blossoms.', 'note': '', 'color': 'yellow', 'created': '2023-06-14T20:26:55.281Z', 'lastUpdate': '2023-06-14T20:27:30.983Z', 'creatorRef': 624427, '_id': '648a22b2c3026acc91faf7ea'}

Academics are addicted to p-hacking, data torturing, and other statistical sins. We must break these habits.

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 URL: https://bpython-interpreter.org/ Type: link Domain: bpython-interpreter.org Notes: I had not come across this alternate python repl. It looks interesting and I need to investigate it further. It has some very cool features.

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.

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...

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.

Creating recommendations with pgvector, ruby-openai, and the neighbor gem.

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...

Sssssaga of a glossssy and glittering our bosses. Article is much more interesting than the title promises.

For those of you learning C or C++, this article is a great and detailed tutorial. Also useful if you are studying operating systems.

Next generation of automated data exploratory analysis and visualization platform. - Kanaries/Rath: Next generation of automated data exploratory analysis and visualization platform.

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We use the Crystal language to build a CLI tool, a coverage reporter for Coveralls, as a static binary and as a Homebrew tap

Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment problems.

Ruby's switch statement is very versatile and flexible, especially due to the dynamic nature of Ruby. In this post, we'll see how you can use it in various ways. We'll also learn why it works the way it works. Hint: it uses the === operator (method) under the hood.