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Bad Type Patterns - The Duplicate duck
Why aren’t people writing more types? Perhaps it’s because the intermediate and expert developers deleted the patterns that didn’t work and left no trace for beginners to learn from. This post details some code I recently deleted that has a pattern I call the “duplicate duck.” You can learn the process I used to develop the type, and why I deleted it. Further, I advocate for Rust developers to document and share their mistakes in the hope that we can all learn from them.
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A Daft proc-macro trick: How to Emit Partial-Code + Errors
Update (2025/04/02): The change I suggested below was merged in PR #64. It’s pretty neat I went from knowing nothing about this project to contributing to it in the span of a single blog post.
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Installing the sassc Ruby gem on a Mac. A debugging story
I’m not exactly sure about the timeline, but at some point,
gem install sasscstopped working for me on my Mac (ARM). Initially, I thought this was because that gem was no longer maintained, and the last release was in 2020, but I was wrong. It’s 100% installable today. In this post I’ll explain some things about native extensions libraries in Ruby and in the process tell you how to fix this error below if you’re getting it on your Mac: -
My Red Hot ADHD Programming 'Affliction'
Sorry, Dave, ADHD is real, and (not acknowledging it) can hurt you. Hi. I’m Richard. I’m a Ruby Core Contributor. I also code in Rust, and enjoy giving talks and writing books about How to (Contribute to) Open Source. I was diagnosed with ADHD in my late 30’s. What does it mean that I was “diagnosed” with ADHD? Am I simply a speed junkie? What even is ADHD, and why is there so much misinformation and misunderstanding about it? Keep reading to find out.
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RubyConf 2024: Cloud Native Buildpack Hackday (and other Ruby deploy tools, too!)
I’ve spent the last decade+ working on Ruby deploy tooling, including (but not limited to) the Heroku classic and upcoming Cloud Native Buildpack. If you want to contribute to a Ruby deployment or packaging tool (even if it’s not one I maintain), I can help. If you want to learn more about Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNBs) and maybe get a green square on GitHub (or TWO!), keep reading for more resources.