I published the first release of RBS::Inline gem. https://github.com/soutaro/rbs-inline

I want you to try it some of your Ruby scripts or just review the syntax for any feedback.

This is a prototype to test the syntax and I will merge the feature to RBS gem after RubyKaigi, where I hope I will receive some feedback from Matz and other Ruby committers.

One for fellow software devs out there.

I thought 'Oh, a silly grammar cock-up that makes for a fun local news story'. Then I read the first line. I won't spoil the surprise but maybe make sure there's no-one close when you yell 'OH FOR FU...'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

These are the statements made by US politicians in 2019 regarding Hong Kong, when rioters were burning police cars, throwing Molotov cocktails.

Student protests: historically on the correct side of issues.

Beating up those students: never the thing celebrated 20 and 50 years later as the right move.

I've spent the week reading like 50+ papers on learning to remember what I know about how people learn and this is what I know:

-people are bad at deciding what to learn
-people are bad at studying. We choose the worst ways to study and we hate the most efficient ways
-people give up on learning so much. Like more than anyone believes
-people aren't clear about what their goals really are for learning and if you try to get people to set goals they don't want to
-teachers truly work miracles

People were talking about #NYTXW difficulties, so I pulled out z-scores (sliced by the day of the week) to see what were the most difficult puzzles for me from the past year (with the day of the week in parentheses, indexed from 0 as Sunday):

2023-08-22 (2): 3.35
2023-06-25 (0): 3.1
2024-02-15 (4): 2.9
2024-04-24 (3): 2.87
2024-04-15 (1): 2.79
2023-08-04 (5): 2.75
2023-06-17 (6): 2.65
2023-06-26 (1): 2.59
2023-10-23 (1): 2.51
2024-04-06 (6): 2.51

I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being “pro-Palestinian” as opposed to anti whatever you call this.

This juxtaposition is truly remarkable.

There’s always an nth derivative that has the spin your news org wants, I guess.
https://thecanadian.social/@emarktaylor/112378716602934295

I was bored today, and built (yet another) #seattle #transitmap. I've always liked subway style maps, and wanted to see how ours looked. Guaranteed not to be accurate, and focusing only on rail and rapid transit (with a couple crucial links in there too.)

Be gentle, it's my first one: https://tennessine.co.uk/metro/b8731401c39b2de

I just want to point out that while I'm not a trained law enforcement officer, I've managed to successfully use a flashlight numerous times without shooting at anything. Mostly this is because I use special flashlights that don't have guns attached.

In all seriousness, this snippet from the revised article is astonishing.

An officer - an ESU sergeant no less - accidentally firing a gun during a planned operation to remove protestors who were merely *trespassing* isn't "abnormal" enough to be worth mentioning? If one of the protesters had accidentally fired a gun, would they have mentioned *that*?

And the mayor knew about this when he was publicly congratulating everyone for how "professionally" and "flawlessly" this was handled.

Come on.

An email from a #UCLA professor who went to jail in defense of #students. #protest #freepalestine

"No TLA's? No ARR?"

Making barricades is taught to 7-year olds in our schools, because our society loves guns more than children, you absolute chucklefuck fartwaffle

I think we must’ve sunk at least a week’s worth of engineering time due to Vercel encoding cookie values in their Edge runtime but not when running under Node. 🫠

I love the modern JS ecosystem.

(We’re not entirely blameless here though, since we also arguably shouldn’t have (and don’t need) characters in our cookie values that need encoding.)

Fascinating (long) read on the world of repairing the undersea cables that connects the internet together across the world: https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships

https://rhaas.blogspot.com/2024/05/hacking-on-postgresql-is-really-hard.html

As far as I can tell, everyone who works on PostgreSQL struggles to write code well enough to live up to the project standards every time they sit down to write a patch, and even the very best hackers still fail at it from time to time, in small ways or sometimes in large ones.

…

I’m not sure how other people experience it, but for me, the worst part of it is the realization that I’ve been dumb. Had I only done X or tested Y, I could have avoided messing it up, and I didn’t do that, or at least not correctly, and now here we are.

Honestly, how I feel even on projects much, much less important than PostgreSQL.

protip: drawing a hilariously bad artwork in MS Paint with a mouse is a much stronger quality signal that you care about the blog post than attaching an obvious AI generation

Alright, @404mediaco, I give up and am now a subscriber since it’s just too damn good not to pay for.

Some of those talking about the issue of antisemitism now were strangely silent when WHITE PEOPLE marched and FOUGHT on a COLLEGE CAMPUS (Univ of Virginia) in Charlottesville in 2017 shouting “Jews will not replace us”. Where were police then? Where was Mike Johnson on the UV campus calling for an end to anti-Semisitism?