Notices by Joel Drapper (joeldrapper@ruby.social)

This aged well.

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know so far about the RubyGems takeover.

https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/

If you’re not building the next Figma, you probably don’t need a SPA. Basic HTML/CSS web apps offer the best, fastest, most accessible user experience for regular text, images and forms. They’re also cheap and they last forever.

Maybe you need a couple of web components if you’re doing something really fancy, but that’s it. Enough of this nonsense, please.

— Someone who probably uses your app and weeps.

React is great. 👏

Okay, I know this is a shitpost, but the point is that GitHub is being *ruined* by a slow, overwrought JavaScript-heavy frontend. SPA front-ends are expensive, complex, and they serve no one. GitHub could and should be *fast*, simple and accessible. It’s literally text and forms. I don’t know how you can mess that up so badly and so consistently.

@aral that is how it works when it’s fair use of publicly available content though. You don’t even need to respect the robots.txt file, legally speaking. Comparing this to rape is disgusting.

@k0kubun 3.2 with YJIT had made them faster in the past, but now it seems to make them slower. 🙃

It makes sense because our tests repeat themselves a lot less now.

@travisbell @mcphat I was trying 3.3 today and it doesn’t seem to have made any difference to the time it takes to run our specs, when compared to 3.2. I’m sure we’d see improvements in production though.

Turns out it’s hard to get real support for diversity in a community predominantly made up of rich white dudes.

“Leave me alone.” 🙉
“Just let me write code.” 🙉
“It’s not my problem.” 🙉
“That’s between you and him.” 🙉

We can only be a tolerant community if we are consistently, steadfastly, resolutely intolerant of intolerance.

#Rails

If you’re wondering why I added a 🍴 to my name, it’s to indicate that I support a community fork of #Rails that respectfully asks anyone who wants to express bigoted or intolerant opinions in public not to be involved in the project, let alone lead and represent it. Maybe others feel the same way. #RubyOnRails

@ufuk @thomasfuchs @purinkle A project fork may damage the community in some ways and may slow the progress of development, but not in a way that disproportionately affects women and people of colour. In the long term, I believe it would strengthen the community — we would benefit from new diverse perspectives, and people who have left on principle — Javan, Kasper and Sam, etc. — may even feel safe to return.

@pezmico this car doesn’t appear to have a crumple zone at the front, which makes it dangerous for the occupants and absolutely deadly for pedestrians, even at low speeds.

@clew @pezmico I haven’t, but that wouldn’t be a reliable metric since there are so many other variables involved, including things like speed limits, road design, and how good of a driver you need to be to get a licence.

What we can do is look at how cars with crumple zones compare to cars without crumple zones in terms of occupant safety and the safety of pedestrians or other vehicles struck by the car.

@clew @pezmico It may well be that Japan has safer roads overall, but that’s not because of cars like this with no crumple zones and incredibly poor collision safety.

@clew @pezmico crumple zones protect whatever is crashed into as much as they protect the occupants. You can never have a society with human drivers and no collisions, so it’s reckless to make cars without collision safety.

It’s sad to see more companies joining the DHH foundation. ?

Some alternatives:

1. Sponsor @rubycentral
2. Sponsor open source maintainers
3. Sponsor open source course creators and documentation maintainers
4. Sponsor Ruby podcasts
5. Sponsor other Ruby conferences
6. Sponsor newsletters like Ruby Weekly and Short Ruby
7. Encourage employees to contribute to open source during work hours
8. Sponsor First Ruby Friend

There are tons of better options.

@patak this looks amazing. Do you ski or snowboard?

@elk I think there’s a bug with code formatting containing stars and arrows. Just sending this to confirm it.
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