Go Forth and multiply
After interviewing Dave Gauer of ratfactor.com for an upcoming episode for the pod, I was intrigued by what he'd said about a programming language called...
You can't spell "Zeitwerk" without "twerk"
I've been slacking on the blogging. I've been writing here a bit, but until this week I hadn't put out a single blog post in 2025. I fixed that, but only...
IO Untethered
A while back, I wrote about how we were working on updating Solidus's order updating code to remove manipulative queries, making it possible to simulate...
Grug Brained
I've been writing a lot more code than usual over the last little while, at least outside of the time I've spent camping and surfing. Unfortunately, I can't...
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...
