ruby.wasm
Did you know that it's really easy to run Ruby in the browser? The official Ruby GitHub org hosts ruby.wasm, a collection of useful WASM Ruby builds. By...
What if?
I sometimes think about what I'd do if I had to rebuild Solidus from scratch. What technologies would I use? What would the architecture look like? I...
Elements of Ruby
Normally I write up this newsletter over the course of the week, but it’s now lunchtime on Friday and I’m only now starting it. Between being off Monday,...
3,000,000
Solidus passed 3 million downloads this week. I wrote a blog post about it! Solidus hits 3 million downloads | Super Good SoftwareSolidus has been downloaded...
In Memoriam: Order Updater
As a member of its core team, I always want to make Solidus better. There are literally endless ways I could do that. Lately, I've been spending some time...
Solidus on HTMX?
I had hoped to dash off a couple of Skill Issues while in Japan, but that didn't happen, so here we are. I'm back. I've recorded a couple of new episodes of...
すみません
I'm heading to RubyKaigi next week. It'll be my first time in Japan. I'm currently frantically trying to memorize a handful of useful Japanese phrases, but...
Beyond Obsidian
Personal knowledge management is a funny topic. A lot of people (programmers) are really into PKM tools, are happy to explain their Obsidian workflow, and...
Ideal Worlds
Ruby possesses a trait that very few languages can compete with; if you can imagine what you want your code to look like, you can probably achieve that in...
Post Mortem
Last week I was (mostly) participating in the 7-Day Roguelike Challenge. You may be able to guess from the subject of this email that I wasn’t especially...
I'm in LÖVE
Just kidding, I'm not writing my 7DRL Challenge game in Go. Nothing against Go, though. After playing with a Zig/C setup for a while, I decided I just wasn't...
Zig-zagging
Hey folks. Sorry I missed last week. I was completely knocked out by a brutal flu that's been going around. I lost 8lbs and my lungs still aren't fully...
Un-Nim-portant
I'm learning Nim, so let's talk about what it is. It's a little hard to pin down. You say that it's a statically-typed, general-purpose, multi-paradigm,...
The Seven Days of Roguelike
I like Roguelikes. Currently I've been playing Caves of Qud, now that they've released version 1.0. In the past, I've made some very simple Roguelike games,...
Other Languages
I got into programming to make games. Having heard that the game industry was a soul-crushing place, I kept it as a hobby. At some point, I abandoned it...
Merry Christmas
It's nearly Christmas. In fact, my family is pretending that Sunday is Christmas day, for scheduling reasons. This'll be the last Skill Issue until 2025. I'm...
Advent of Terrible Code
Christmas time is here, and three things are true: I'm streaming Advent of Code. I have not yet lost Whamageddon. This email was supposed to go out on...
Advent of Code
If you're reading this on the day it goes out, we're only a couple days from the start of the Advent of Code. I'm going to be solving all the problems on...
RubyConf 2024
Hey nerds, Welcome to all four of you that subscribed to my mailing list before I even promoted it. I’ve returned from RubyConf last week and thought I’d...