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mike dalessio

2 years

Today feels like a good time to step back and appreciate how exciting a time it is for Ruby. Imma tweet a bit about the amazing work being done by @ShopifyEng 's Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team. (That's the team I help lead! I'm so proud of them!) 1/15

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

I'm heartbroken to share this news about our dear friend and colleague, @ChrisGSeaton .

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

12 days

So I quit my job as a director of engineering earlier this year. I was really burned out. I spent the last few months focusing on open-source development with the intention of going back to work as an engineer (not a manager). It's been amazing.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 years

One afternoon in early 2021, a 14-year-old test in Rails started failing. Nobody understood why. If you have 12 minutes and want to be amused/annoyed by a genuine mystery spanning decades and tech stacks, here's my RubyConf "whimsy talk" about it:

RubyConf 2021 - Whimsy: Put That Test Down! You don't know where it's...

Whimsy: Put That Test Down! You don't know where it's been by Michael Dalessio

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

Rails omakase end of tweet

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

4 years

Today is my last day at VMware (née Pivotal) after almost 12 years as a client and employee. I'm sad to be leaving so many amazing people, but happy that my desk gnome is now living his best life in the sun. I start at @Shopify in a week and I'm UNREASONABLY EXCITED about it.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

4 years

Oh hey, I almost forgot to tweet: Nokogiri v1.11.0 finally landed and ships precompiled native gems for Linux and MacOS. Happy new year.

mike dalessio

@flavorjones

4 years

OHAI Rubyists, Nokogiri v1.11.0.rc1 is out and we're experimenting with precompiled native linux gems, which should speed things up (if this works). We'd love to hear your feedback at Thanks to Lars Kanis for his amazing work helping to make this happen.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

4 years

Hey, Rubyists. Would love your feedback on precompiled native nokogiri on OSX. Installs in 1.1 seconds.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

10 months

Ruby's performance has improved dramatically (and will continue to improve in Ruby 3.3), please update your mental models.

Ruby 3.3’s YJIT Runs Shopify’s Production Code 15% Faster

Ruby 3.2 YJIT has optimized the production workloads of Shopify and other companies. We encourage you to enable YJIT in production. Once Ruby 3.3 is released, it should make your application even...

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

1 year

Shopify is still committed to invest in Ruby and Rails, but very sadly the Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team did get smaller today. Some of the most competent engineers and finest humans I've ever worked with are now available for hire. Can I make an intro? DMs are open.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

Look, I get it, compiling nokogiri is a great joke and it will never get old. But at least update your mental models: Pre-1.11, 94% of users had to compile, and it was a struggle. Post-1.11, 96% are installing precompiled libraries, instantly, it just works.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

12 days

I've rediscovered the joy of coding. I remember why I got into this career in the first place. I'm happy to talk about this if anybody else is thinking about doing it, just ping me. #ruby #osslife

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

Question if you've read this far: Would you read a microblog or listen to a podcast about the work this team is doing?

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

I'm intensely proud of the work done by my teammates to ship the Rust implementation of Ruby's YJIT. This is a huge milestone! And it's going to unlock work to support other platforms and more optimizations. Pow!

Rust YJIT by XrXr · Pull Request #5826 · ruby/ruby

In December 2021, we opened an issue to solicit feedback regarding the porting of the YJIT codebase from C99 to Rust. There were some reservations, but this project was given the go ahead by Ruby c...

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

If you want to read an essay on the truckers that adds something to the conversation, and offers a mental model for why these protests are different from, say, BLM, here is a great example that is worth your time.

A.R. Moxon

@JuliusGoat

2 years

I want to propose a different way of thinking about conservatism and progressivism. I suggest we think about the two positions not as detectable ideologies themselves, but as situational orientations around an existing order.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

4 years

I say some variation of this once a week at least. Best career advice I could possibly give to young engineers: find a role that fixes broken stuff in production.

SwiftOnSecurity

@SwiftOnSecurity

4 years

The way things break can tell you a lot about how they function.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 years

I'm super excited about the work my teammates are doing to make Ruby faster and maintaining 100% compatibility by building a JIT compiler into the interpreter:

YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRuby

A team of skilled engineers from Shopify and GitHub on YJIT, a new Just-in-time (JIT) compiler built inside CRuby.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 years

Team Shopify

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

8 months

YJIT is going to be turned on by default in Rails 7.2!

Enable YJIT by default if running Ruby 3.3+ · rails/rails@c29cda2

There was many public reports of 15-25% latency improvements for Rails apps that did enable Ruby 3.2 YJIT, and in 3.3 it's even better. Following https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/8705, in...

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

Yo, Rubyists. Nokogiri 1.14.0 is out with native (precompiled) support for Ruby 3.2. Pattern matching! ARM Linux support! Performance improvements! And more!

Release 1.14.0 / 2023-01-12 · sparklemotion/nokogiri

1.14.0 / 2023-01-12 Notable Changes Ruby This release introduces native gem support for Ruby 3.2. (Also see "Technical note" under "Changed" below.) This release ends support fo...

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

Our team at Shopify has been in touch with Chris's family to offer as much support as we can in this difficult time, and they asked us to communicate this news to the Ruby and the compiler research communities.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

7 years

Hi, my name is Mike. My XML library has been downloaded 100 million times and I still have to reread namespace docs once a month.

Tim Bray

@timbray

7 years

Hi, mine is Tim too. I’ve been coding since 1979 and I still have to look up java.lang.String methods all the time.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

10 months

Just to clarify, Rafael and I work pretty hard to recognize the "maintainer" skillset and impact on our team at Shopify. We personally value it highly, we encourage growth around it, we celebrate wins, and it all factors in at review time.

Rafael França 🇧🇷

@rafaelfranca

10 months

As someone that spend most of the time keeping sure software is easier to maintain, I totally agree. It is totally an undervalued job. Getting promoted is almost impossible. It is way easier if you rewrite something in the cool language.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

7 years

After an emotional, cathartic couple of days with some fellow Pivots from many different parts of Pivotal, I'd like to say: 1) I love the people I work with. Empathy, respect, competence. Wow. 2) If you think Pivotal's doing well now, wait a year. I'm bullish.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

I've been informed that today is my two-year anniversary at @ShopifyEng and - 😅That was fast! - ❤️I really love my team - 🙇 I'm humbled by the talent here - 🚀 LFG

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

4 years

OHAI Rubyists, Nokogiri v1.11.0.rc1 is out and we're experimenting with precompiled native linux gems, which should speed things up (if this works). We'd love to hear your feedback at Thanks to Lars Kanis for his amazing work helping to make this happen.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

7 years

Someone on the internet sent me a gift. Thank you, anonymous thoughtful person!

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

4 years

So, over the weekend, my co-worker @rafaelfranca celebrated 8 years of Rails Core team membership. Since his first commit to Rails, ten years ago, he's averaged 3.5 commits per business day. Amazing! Please tell him "Thank you!"

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

6 years

Buildpacks as a standard across platforms, y'all. Huge props to @pivotalcf and @heroku for all the work that went into making this happen.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

So proud of my teammates at @Shopify and the fact that @yukihiro_matz (during his #rubykaigi keynote) name-checked so many of them who have been working hard to land big improvements in Ruby 3.2! And: "Shopify also ends in 'y'!" 🤣

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

I don't have details yet about a memorial service, but will share that information here when I can.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 months

ICYMI: Working at Shopify has been a blast, but I've resigned, I don't have any immediate plans, and I'm looking forward to taking bit of a break.

Mike Dalessio on LinkedIn: TL;DR: Working at Shopify has been a blast, but I've resigned, I don't…...

TL;DR: Working at Shopify has been a blast, but I've resigned, I don't have any immediate plans, and I'm looking forward to taking bit of a break. The last… | 92 comments on LinkedIn

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 years

My team is looking for feedback on a proposal to push maintainers of popular Ruby gems to enable MFA on their accounts!

RFC: Require MFA on the top 100 most downloaded gems by jenshenny · Pull Request #36 · rubygems/rfcs

Here’s the RFC that was mentioned in this issue on a policy to require MFA on a cohort of gems. Contributors: @bettymakes, @aellispierce, @jchestershopify, @jenshenny We’re all available on the Bun...

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

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Rubyists! sqlite3 v2.0.0 has been unleashed! This is a major release which ships a native Linux Musl gem, has some shiny new features, some perf improvements, and cleans up a decade of deprecations. Thanks to everyone who contributed! #ruby #sqlite

Release 2.0.0 / 2024-04-17 · sparklemotion/sqlite3-ruby

2.0.0 / 2024-04-17 This is a major release which contains some breaking changes, primarily the removal of long-deprecated functionality. Before upgrading, please make sure to address deprecation wa...

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

5 years

Happy 11th Birthday, Nokogiri! And thanks to @tenderlove for making me debug all the memory problems and getting me involved 😜

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

6 years

Want to know what kind of place @pivotal is? I just chatted for two hours with a co-worker about ... 1) the role of empathy in building quality software (hint: it's critical)

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

6 years

Nokogiri is coming up on its 10th birthday. @tenderlove and I want to do something special. We need ideas that won't cost a fortune. HELP US, TWITTERVERSE.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

4 years

Today my age changes to a prime number. If you add the digits you'll get another two-digit prime. And halfway between my age and that two-digit prime is a third prime whose digits also add up to that two-digit prime.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

Pivots, my DMs are open.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

4 years

Hey, Rubyists. Nokogiri v1.11.0.rc4 just dropped, and this is probably what's going to be in the final release. Last chance to kick the tires and give feedback! This is shaping up to be the most notable release of the past few years.

Changelog - Nokogiri

The Official Tutorial Archive™ of Nokogiri®

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 years

ZOMG Ruby YJIT is available through ruby-build! Details and much more at:

Try Out YJIT for Faster Rubying

Shopify is building a new JIT implementation on top of CRuby. This post walks through how to build CRuby and all about building YJIT.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

I am wicked excited about my team's proposal to make Ruby gem signing and verification dead simple: WICKED excited about using modern and user-friendly tools for this.

RFC: Proposal for new signing mechanism by rochlefebvre · Pull Request #37 · rubygems/rfcs

Rendered RFC. We'd like to propose a new gem signing mechanism. We believe the new mechanism will be easier to use and more secure. Our goal is that eventually, almost all gems are signed as a ...

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

6 years

NBD

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

New chonky boi adopted into the family today. Meet Harry.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

Rubyists! Nokogiri prerelease 1.14.0.rc1 is out with Ruby 3.2 native gem support. Please kick the tires, especially if you're on a Mac and using Ruby 3.2. Please leave any feedback you have here:

Feedback on 1.14.0.rc1 with Ruby 3.2 native gem support · sparklemotion nokogiri · Discussion #2747

If you have feedback on the v1.14.0.rc1 prerelease, we'd love to hear from you! https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/releases/tag/v1.14.0.rc1 1.14.0.rc1 / 2022-12-29 This is a prerelease. ...

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 months

Once more for the people in the back: Ruby's performance has improved dramatically, please update your mental models

Rafael França 🇧🇷

@rafaelfranca

3 months

Ruby might be faster than you think

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 years

Rubyists! Nokogiri v1.13.0 is out with Ruby 3.1 native support and ARM64 Linux native support. Lots of small improvements and bugfixes as well, so you should upgrade!

Release 1.13.0 / 2022-01-06 · sparklemotion/nokogiri

1.13.0 / 2022-01-06 Notes Ruby This release introduces native gem support for Ruby 3.1. Please note that Windows users should use the x64-mingw-ucrt platform gem for Ruby 3.1, and x64-mingw32 for R...

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

4 years

I am here to tell you how lucky I feel to be married to a baker

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 years

Please allow me to remind you of the benefits of marrying a pastry chef. Side note, this year my age can be found by multiplying three consecutive even numbers together.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

Improving the Ruby dev experience is important. @kddnewton has been working on and we've joined that work with to give Rubyists powerful IDE tools. Ping @vinistock if you're interested in contributing! 6/15

GitHub - Shopify/ruby-lsp: An opinionated language server for Ruby

An opinionated language server for Ruby. Contribute to Shopify/ruby-lsp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

Some people don't have anyone in their life who tells them, "The world does not need a blog post from you on this topic right now," and I think that's sad.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

6 years

Something really special happened today during the @pivotal R&D all-hands meeting.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

I'm so excited to finally share this news! This partnership is one big way we're continuing to bet on Ruby's future and ensuring this important work gets done. HUUUGE thanks to @evanphx , @tobi , the RC peeps and the Shopifolk for coming together and doing great work!

rubycentralorg

@rubycentralorg

2 years

Today we’re excited to announce Ruby Shield 🛡️ This new initiative in partnership with @ShopifyEng will support open-source and enable us to take on new security-focused projects to better protect our communities. What is this & why are we doing it? 1/🧵

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@flavorjones

5 years

There was a fire drill in my office today, and out of an abundance of concern I rescued a bunch of gummy bears and took them with me Rescue is perhaps a strong word I ate them

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

6 years

Hey, world. I took a four-week break during August and feel like the luckiest kid in the world. I want to tell you about it.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 years

Not-so-🔥-take: package repositories (like NPM and ) should REQUIRE MFA for anybody who publishes software. Given the state of the universe, this needs to be table stakes for maintainers to ensure the security of their users.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

5 years

Life hack: Having a bad day? Spend fifteen minutes writing feedback for a co-worker you admire and love working with. I find it incredibly energizing, maybe because it reminds me intimately of what I love most about working at @pivotalcf -- the Pivots.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 years

We had to say goodbye to our dog Izzy yesterday. Definitely feeling her absence after building our life with her over almost 16 years. The last few days have been rough, but here are some fun photos to remember her by.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

And @kddnewton is working on adding ARM64 support to Ruby's YJIT! Should land for you crazy M1 kids in Ruby 3.2! 4/15

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

6 years

Wow, I'm honored to have been nominated for the 2018 Ruby Prize: Thanks to whoever nominated me! This was a pleasant thing to wake up to.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

Shopify is leading the work on an open-source incremental JIT compiler embedded into MRI. YJIT v1 landed in Ruby 3.1, and a much improved version will be in Ruby 3.2. Read more from project lead @Love2Code at 2/15

YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRuby

A team of skilled engineers from Shopify and GitHub on YJIT, a new Just-in-time (JIT) compiler built inside CRuby.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

💎Rubyists, v1.5.0.rc1 of the sqlite3 gem ships precompiled libraries including sqlite 3.39.0!🚀 💬We'd love some feedback on it.🤞 It's a prerelease, so remember to run gem install sqlite3 --pre or lock to the specific version in your Gemfile.

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@flavorjones

2 years

When you disagree with an open-source maintainer, please do not tell them they are careless or thoughtless, particularly when they have previously taken the time to write a clear policy describing a decision framework. You will look trashy and their day will be ruined. #osslife

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@flavorjones

2 years

The crew at @gitlab describe why Rails was the right choice to base their business on. This is great! 👊

Why we're sticking with Ruby on Rails

GitLab CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij makes the case for Ruby on Rails.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

6 years

Teams in the Extract phase should be concerned about preserving context around decisions, and a tool like seems like something we should seriously consider. h/t to @clayton for pointing out the tool, @sketchingSM for the 3X sketch, and @kentbeck for 3X

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@flavorjones

2 years

It's an annual tradition for me to pose a math question about my age on my birthday. Sadly, this year there's nothing interesting about my age other than: - it is a square - both digits are squares - and 100 minus my age is not a prime but you probably think it's a prime 😜

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

We are a breakfast family

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@flavorjones

2 years

If you're curious about Mastodon and you're a rubyist, you can join a server focused on the Ruby community here: Come on in, the water is fine.

Ruby.social

@flavorjones invites you to join this server of Mastodon! With an account, you will be able to follow people, post updates and exchange messages with users from any Mastodon server and more!

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

5 years

I'm so happy to see Pivotal's contributions showing up here as a statistical outlier. We're investing in open source like few other companies, and I would love to talk to you if this is important to you, too. My DMs are open.

Matt Asay

@mjasay

5 years

The Q1 2019 GitHub contributor data is out (see ). Rankings based on % of employees/engineers active, and total # of engineers active

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@flavorjones

5 years

Since I just hit my 11-year (original) hire anniversary @pivotal , I figured I'd share some choice photos from over the years. This is set #1

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@flavorjones

2 years

Rubyists! Nokogiri v1.13.4 has been released. This is a security update for both CRuby and JRuby users. Spoiler alert: this one has nothing to do with libxml2.

Release 1.13.4 / 2022-04-11 · sparklemotion/nokogiri

1.13.4 / 2022-04-11 Security Address CVE-2022-24836, a regular expression denial-of-service vulnerability. See GHSA-crjr-9rc5-ghw8 for more information. [CRuby] Vendored zlib is updated to address...

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@flavorjones

6 years

I'm super proud to have been given a Google Open Source Peer Bonus for ruining your day with Nokogiri compilation duration. (Thanks @dannyzen for nominating me! And also congrats to my co-worker @shalako who was recognized for his Istio work!)

Congratulating the latest Open Source Peer Bonus winners

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@flavorjones

8 months

If anyone's interested in the architectures being used by Rubyists ... Here's the breakdown of Nokogiri native downloads during the "precompiled gem era" (January 2021)

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@flavorjones

6 years

Just a reminder that Cloud Foundry has internal routing and service discovery available, out of the box, for container-to-container networking between microservices.

Polyglot Service Discovery for Container Networking

We are happy to announce a big step forward for developer ease-of-use in Cloud Foundry with a new feature for polyglot service discovery. Learn more here.

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@flavorjones

2 years

a few hours ago, @shioyama showed that it's possible to have JS-style module imports in Ruby for any gem So, like: mod = import "active_model" mod::ActiveModel.gem_version # => Gem::("7.0.4") Read it!

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@flavorjones

3 years

I'm super proud of my team, and I'm excited we have the opportunity to share what we're working on!

Shopify Engineering

@ShopifyEng

3 years

Ready for @RubyKaigi Takeout 2021? We'll be there with a full lineup of speakers from Shopify this year! See the full schedule and get your ticket 👉

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@flavorjones

2 months

I'm still coming down from an amazing #RailsConf last week. Every talk I saw was about building something with Rails. On Hack Day, I helped nine developers contribute to open source projects. The hallway track was bustling, I reconnected with a ton of talented people. #rails

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

6 years

Stay humble, Pivots. This too shall pass.

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@flavorjones

2 years

Object shapes in Ruby look prettaaay prettaaaaayyy good Check out those benchmarks

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@flavorjones

3 years

Meeting most of my teammates for the first time at RubyConf has been amazing! These are engineers I've been working with for 18 months in some cases but didn't get to shake hands or hug until TODAY

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@flavorjones

4 years

The lady next door turns 100 today and all the municipal workers just did a drive-by to celebrate!

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@flavorjones

2 years

On the topic of Ruby performance, @JemmaIssroff has been working on Object Shapes, a technique used in V8 and other language implementations. This work will simplify and speed up some of the Ruby VM's internals! 5/15

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@flavorjones

3 years

I'm excited to introduce @peterzhu2118 's ruby_memcheck into Nokogiri's test suite. For the first time, we have a CI test that will fail if a memory leak is introduced!

GitHub - Shopify/ruby_memcheck: Use Valgrind memcheck on your native gem without going crazy

Use Valgrind memcheck on your native gem without going crazy - Shopify/ruby_memcheck

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

4 years

Never forget

mike dalessio

@flavorjones

9 years

For Halloween, Dave dressed up as me. #pivotallife

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mike dalessio

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9 months

My teammate @_byroot has been working on a reforking version of unicorn designed for use with YJIT, and it's finally rolled out for @shopify 's massive monolith. TLDR impressive latency and memory improvements.

Effects of Pitchfork reforking on Shopify’s Monolith

Over the last year, I’ve been working on a new Ruby application server called Pitchfork. In most regards it’s extremely similar to the venerable Unicorn, from which it originates, but with one major...

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

6 years

The benefits of being married to a baker

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

5 years

I may have made an awful mistake this weekend, in that I'm a middle-aged human who ordered an electric skateboard. (Note: I do not know how to skateboard.) Plz send memes.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

5 years

w00t, I'm super excited to be speaking at this year's Code Climate Leadership Summit!

Code Climate

@codeclimate

5 years

Mike Dalessio is speaking at this year's #engineeringleadershipsummit on May 22 in SF! As the VP of Engineering at Pivotal, @flavorjones is busy growing people working on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, a tool for deploying and operating modern applications.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

10 months

I'm excited to finally be talking about my adventures in HTML5!

Ruby on Rails

@rails

10 months

It began in 2015 with a curious security exploit, and ended years later after upstreaming major changes to Action View, Rails::HTML::Sanitizer, Loofah, and Nokogiri. @flavorjones will share twists, turns, and lessons learned along the way at #RailsWorld .

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

6 years

@SciGuySpace Great organizations collaborate with engineers on developing requirements, instead of tossing them over a wall where the only two responses are compliance or rebellion.

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

4 years

Anybody who's ever tried to leave a malignant narcissist (or knows someone who has) is entirely unsurprised by how this breakup is going

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

5 years

Pivotal R&D NYC is doing a science fair to show off their products today. I will be livetweeting. Come along with me. #pivotalny #pivotalcf

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

An all-star team of @jacques_chester , @aellispierce , @bettymakes , and @jenshenny are working with @rubytogether to improve security in the Ruby supply chain! They're driving adoption of MFA for maintainers, and experimenting with package signing with @projectsigstore 9/15

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

4 years

it is GUMMI BEAR THURSDAY (not pictured: 23 other gummi bears)

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 years

I'm looking forward to staying up late tonight to watch the first day of #rubykaigi . So many good talks! Also, maybe, check in on Day 3 for my niche explanation about C extensions and how precompiled Nokogiri works!

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 years

This feels so much easier to use than the node experience! I'm glad I was able to help get it across the finish line.

DHH

@dhh

3 years

Rails 7 ❤️ Tailwind 3. When you run "rails new app --css tailwind", you'll now get the full TW3 experience WITHOUT NODE! See tailwindcss-rails v2.0 release notes:

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

The amazing duo of @eightbitraptor and @peterzhu2118 have been busy working on Variable Width Allocation which should provide performance benefits in terms of speed *and* memory. Here's a great talk from RubyConf 2021 about it: 7/15

RubyConf 2021 - Optimizing Ruby's Memory Layout by Peter Zhu & Matt...

Optimizing Ruby's Memory Layout by Peter Zhu & Matt Valentine-HouseRuby’s current memory model assumes all objects live in fixed size slots. This means that ...

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 months

This post by @fractaledmind on sqlite performance in Rails apps is just terrific: The change to retry timing he mentions is in the new 2.0 release of the sqlite3 gem! #ruby #rails #sqlite

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

3 years

holy cow, I'm going to get patches accepted to libxml2 and valgrind in the same week

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mike dalessio

@flavorjones

2 years

I'm limited by 240 characters and haven't tagged all the folks who are working on these projects. I really love this team, and the impressive work they're doing to improve things not only for @ShopifyEng , but for everyone who uses Ruby or Rails. 15/15

Our Relationship with Rails | Shopify Engineering

We're hiring engineers worldwide! Learn more 👉 https://www.shopify.com/careers/teams/engineeringWe brought some of the engineers from Shopify's Ruby & Rails...

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