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Xavier Noria

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2 years

In OSS, there are no sprints, stand-ups, retrospectives, 1:1s, 360s, quarters, velocities, estimations, deadlines, project managers, "how is this going", year goals, ..., could go on and on. Yet it ships non-stop and runs the world.

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"Is this project still maintained?"

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I'll have the honor of giving the opening keynote in RailsConf. 🙇‍♂️

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Zeitwerk stays at 0 issues, 0 PRs. Issues or even questions in Rails related to autoloading have virtually vanished. It is going to be the only loader in Rails 7. It is integrated in Hanami 2.0, and loads dozens of gems. Was worth it.

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- Mom, if I ever need a machine to be alive please disconnect it. - If that is your will... - What are you doing? Not the router!!!

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Zeitwerk has been awarded an "Outstanding Performance Award" Fukuoka Ruby Award 2022. 🙇‍♂️

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2 years

Fukuoka Ruby Award just arrived.

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1 year

Was looking at stuff from RailsConf Europe London (2006, my first Rails conference), and just found this incredible shot from @pdcawley . ❤️

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4 years

GitHub has migrated to Zeitwerk, that is so epic 🎉💪🎉💪🎉💪🎉💪🎉💪🎉. Every time I hear about the progressive wins in the GitHub code base since the 3.2 days (I think), I can't but think about @eileencodes huge effort behind it, hard battles, step by step ❤️.

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In the N+1 problem, we first fetch the 1, and then the N. Therefore, it should be the 1+N problem. I'll die on this hill.

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4 years

@angelmartin_nc

Rex Chapman🏇🏼

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4 years

I love New York...

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2 years

Zeitwerk has surpassed 200 million downloads, and it is fetched about 400K times per day (this includes CI builds, deploys, etc.). Besides Rails apps, +360 gems load with Zeitwerk nowadays, designing for any Ruby project was worthwhile. And it has no known bug 💪.

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2 years

Today I pushed my 3,000th commit to Rails. That is just a mundane 0xbb8 anyway, so back to the editor :).

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3 years

I cannot ❤️ this enough, Rails is Rails

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4 years

Have been working from home for the last 14 years. 2006–2009 as co-founder and CTO of a distributed Rails shop. 2009-today as freelance consultant. Best thing, I have been present for her.

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Why am I into high-level languages like Ruby? It is a choice. As many of you know, my background is in math. Math is the most rigorous, abstract, and elegant thing I know. The degree (+1 year of PhD) was among the best years in my life. When I switched to software, my

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1 year

No language feels like Ruby to me. Once you've been into it, others look more like formal languages in which you program and can do anything, yes, but with a different level of expressivenes and naturality. #ruby30th

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1 year

So, this was an incredibly classy and touching surprise @RailsSaaS had prepared. I am so honored. The award is solid crystal, including the ruby on top. It weights, it reflects light beautifully, and it is really gorgeous. It'll have a place in my living room. ❤️

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3 years

Just finished "Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails". Man, this book was missing. Wise, real-life, first-hand experience content from someone running a SOA architecture with over 50 Rails apps and 200 engineers. No theoretical blackboard bullshit. Totally recommended.

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3 years

Exhausting week including weekend. Going to take a break from Twitter. ❤️ to all Rails people.

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3 years

+5x speed up of `constantize` in Rails 7. And becomes a one-liner. Possible thanks to the extended const_get @tenderlove wrote to support constant paths, and to Zeitwerk constant lookup matching Ruby's. Patch by byroot /cc @ShopifyEng 🚀

Directly delegate `constantize` to `Object.const_get` by casperisfine · Pull Request #41877 ·...

All the complexity of that method was to work around various problems caused by Ruby's constant lookup semantic as well as the classic autoloader shortcommings. Now that Rails require Ruby 2.7 ...

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2 months

15 years as an independent consultant 🎉

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2 years

The daily downloads of Zeitwerk nowadays are bout 18% greater than the ones of Rails. This very raw number suggests the amount of non-Rails projects/gems using it, and Hanami 2 is not even out yet. That fulfills my vision of designing it for any Ruby project/gem ❤️.

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4 years

"slave" is a bad word, "cop" is a good word, period. If you have a problem with your cops, it's the individuals and your system, not the concept. And let me tell you something, you won't lecture a Catalan about bad cops. @bbatsov has my full support.

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11 months

Goodbye.

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3 years

According to BestGems, Zeitwerk has been downloaded more than 100,000,000 times. And it has no known bug 💪.

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2 years

Love the vibe in these HN comments about @rails .

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3 years

Rails 7 brings another performance boost: AS cache dump/load is 20%–40% faster, and payloads may be reduced in half or more, depends on byte length. New code is able to parse old entries for a smooth transition.

Implement an optimized Cache::Entry coder by casperisfine · Pull Request #42025 · rails/rails

Ref: #40412 Ref: #9494 Active Support's cache have for long been limited because of its format. It directly serialize its Entry object with Marshal, so any internal change might break the forma...

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5 years

been actively keeping these two figures down to 0 — and, indeed, there have been no bugs for a long time, questions, small new features, etc. has been the bulk of it 💪

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1 year

GitHub (around 2 million LOCs) runs on the `main` branch of Rails. They upgrade weekly:

Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails

Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily.…

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4 years

Ruby tip of the day: `Pathname#/` allows you to join segments using slash notation. Don't @ me.

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1 year

The Rails Foundation was created 4 months ago, and the first task was to look for an executive director. This takes time, and you cannot operate meanwhile. Amanda joined last Feb 20, not even a month. Please, give her trust, space, time, and peace ❤️ 🙏.

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6 months

By trying to extorsion 37signals, attackers won't get anything but Rails 8 shipping with Active Shield or something :D.

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4 years

How it started: How it’s going:

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8 months

My Ruby corner at home got a new award. The one to the right in the picture. It was presented to all members of Rails Core in Amsterdam, celebrating all these years working on Rails.

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2 years

New side project in which I'd like to share all I have learned about constants in Ruby over the years. In this book I'll try to be as comprehensive and rigorous as possible, talking to Ruby programmers that want the real thing. Let's see how far do I get.

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5 years

just merged Zeitwerk integration into Rails, this was the original motivation for a new autoloader, had a blast cracking this problem and I'm very proud of this work 🎉

Zeitwerk integration by fxn · Pull Request #35235 · rails/rails

Introduction This patch integrates Zeitwerk and makes it the default autoloader for Rails 6 applications. You can now robustly use constant paths in class and module definitions: # Matches Ruby s...

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8 months

There is a tremendous volunteer effort behind the Rails guides: Creation, edition, styling, maintenance, tooling, servers, etc. It's nice to see people appreciating them. (Thanks to @andatki for sharing.)

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3 years

I developed Rails Contributors in 2008 and still maintain it. It makes me very happy that people get credit for their work. That there's a public place where you see it, a recognition to be proud of, and also that people can show it when they look for a job. ❤️

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2 years

Software development simply does not match fixed timelines, sprints, quarters, or whatever. These ad-hoc structures belong to the mindset of certain management styles, and in my view it is an error to work with such frameworks.

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3 years

Who on earth starts a greenfield project with microservices? You know nothing about it. Monolith first always, except for obvious services like search engines, caches, monitoring, etc. Be a surgeon later, and only if truly justified.

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Don’t start with microservices – monoliths are your friend 🖋 by @ArnoldGalovics

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10 months

This venue is spectacular #RailsWorld

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10 months

During the AMA session in Rails World, on the topic of changing careers later in life, I commented I was 30 when I got my first job as a programmer. Would like to add that, just one week ago, I had the pleasure to have dinner next to the wonderful @NaijeriaToweett in Bucharest,

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6 years

Marie Kondo should take a look at web dev stacks

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3 years

Here too

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3 years

Hard same

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2 years

I'll just leave this here.

GitHub - fxn/i-told-you-it-was-private

Contribute to fxn/i-told-you-it-was-private development by creating an account on GitHub.

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3 months

From the Changelog of Ruby 3.4.0.preview1: Array #each is rewritten in Ruby for better performance [Feature #20182 ] YJIT is coming on strong!

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3 years

Someone wrote asking for career advice. Sharing.

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3 years

I am really happy that Hanami 2.0 will autoload with Zeitwerk ❤️. I started the project within AS, but soon realized it was generalizable. So I switched the focus to write a loader that could be used by any Ruby project. Nowadays, dozens of gems load with Zeitwerk.

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3 years

This made my day ❤️.

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6 years

let me present to you the gem in which I have been working during the last months: "Zeitwerk: A new code loader for Ruby" - @fxn

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1 year

Rails 7.1 will ship with official support for custom root namespaces. That will allow projects to have `app/services` under a `Services` namespace if they like to, with a one-liner.

Improve support for custom namespaces by fxn · Pull Request #47583 · rails/rails

Introduction This patch improves support for custom root namespaces, and consolidates a direction in the design of the integration of Zeitwerk in Rails. Use Case You'd like all services in app/...

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3 years

🎉 Zeitwerk 2.5 is out! 🎉 This ships almost one year of work: New callbacks, Ruby 3.1 compatibility, better performance, docs, traces, a couple of edge bugs fixed, and more things. Rails 7 requires this version. Should work with Rails 6 too.

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6 years

Shopify is Rails

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3 years

Oh yes, 💯. This is something I tell my daughter as a life lesson, forget what people say or project, observe what they do.

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5 years

🎉 10 years as freelancer 🎉

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4 years

So I have written a WS application in @elixirphoenix (client work) that receives certain events and among other things publishes them to Kafka. One Elixir node with 4 cores overperforms Kafka (2 nodes, 8 cores each) if replication is enabled. Quite impressive, if you ask me.

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7 months

Started 2024 working on my book about constants. It's taking shape. I don't like to talk too much about goals, because one makes plans, and then reality has a different idea. But we are on it!

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6 years

just realized I have been working remotely for over 12 years — that's a life choice, the best part of it has been to experience and be present while my daughter has grown

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6 months

My father is 78, and was just granted FIDE Master. 🎉 Self-taught as a kid in a small town, he achieved International Master in postal chess in the '70s. Drew with World Champion Karpov in a simultaneous exhibition. He quit in his '40s, but retook playing when he retired. 💪

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4 years

New Year Resolutions for 2021: 1. Survive

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1 year

I kind of feel that in the last couple of years or so there are new names emerging in the Rails community, contributing great stuff in different spaces, building, being positive and constructive. ❤️

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8 months

Apologies to all, but I got THE helmet.

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2 years

"Projects tend to span to fill the amount of time allotted to them => Shorter deadlines". I say bullshit, I have worked without allotted times, budgets, estimations, etc. for 12 years. Always shipping. You don't need shorter deadlines, what you need is an execution mindset.

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4 years

rails [master] % git commit -m 'deprecates the classic autoloader' 🎉

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1 year

Got this picture in Athens. Could be a commercial for Rails Jeans or something I guess 😂.

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2 years

I had the honor of opening RailsConf this year. The keynote covers the story of Zeitwerk: The seed idea, the difficulties and wins, the people that helped along the way, and the aftermath. Also, an interlude about the name. 🙇‍♂️

RailsConf 2022 - Opening Keynote: The Journey to Zeitwerk by Xavier...

RailsConf 2022 - Opening Keynote: The Journey to Zeitwerk by Xavier Noria___________________________________________________________________________Cloud 66 ...

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5 years

OMG, Discourse migrated to Zeitwerk and the patch deletes near 500 instances of require_dependency, that is a trophy 🏆

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1 year

One-liner to run Rubocop only on the files created or modified in the current branch: git diff --name-only --diff-filter=d main... | \ xargs bundle exec rubocop "$@"

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8 years

changing the world, changing the world, ..., man Isaac Newton changed the world, you are building a fucking web service

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3 years

Forgot WHERE in DELETE

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Write a sad coding story in 4 words.

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9999 commits

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3 years

rails % git commit -m 'Drops support for classic mode' #Rails7

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4 years

@ValaAfshar @jsalvachua The fastest curve under gravity is called a "brachistochrone", Johann Bernoulli challenged mathematicians to find it

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8 months

Years ago we had a Toyota Yaris, which is a super nice utility car I'd buy again. After having it serviced, I followed the mechanic to his office for the paperwork, and noticed some diplomas on the wall. Curious, I asked about them. "Oh, I do auto repair competitions". What? He

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8 months

Rosa is really incredible. As just one anecdote, she did AoC 2019 (the one with Intcode) using one different programming language per day, while moving to a new apartment. Anything Rosa does is going to be world-class.

My polyglot Advent of Code

At Basecamp we have an internal project called “Your proudest moments”. My colleague Dan set it up so that people at Basecamp could share anything we’re proud of. So far people ha…

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Huge kudos to the incredible @rosapolis for finishing this in time for the end of the year. Not only did she create a fantastic new open source gift for everyone in the Rails community, she diligently, and with nary a hiccup, moved over a big production system by herself 👏👏

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2 months

I got a significant sponsor one-time donation from Microsoft. That was cool 🙇.

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4 months

Looking at the CHANGELOG, I just realized Zeitwerk is already 5 years old, first stable release was Feb 2019. My goodness, time does fly. It's been intense and very gratifying years.

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2 years

Sunday evening 🙌.

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3 years

Meeting was canceled

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3 years

🤩 Make a developers' day in 3️⃣ words:

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9 months

Seriously, I got an M2 Pro in June. I don't care about the M3, but black? Finally? Precisely now? You have no soul.

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2 months

In these 15 years doing consultancy I have worked without deadlines (and without estimations). I believe dateless workflows are optimal for most software projects. I recently talked about this topic in Balkan Ruby.

Xavier Noria – A Dateless Mindset

Xavier Noria is an everlasting student, a Ruby on Rails Core team member, the creator of Zeitwerk, a freelancer, and a life lover. In this talk, Xavi is shar...

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2 years

Twitter will discover dRuby and rewrite in Rails after blaming Scala.

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3 years

I should write a book about constants in Ruby.

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3 months

My father, 79 years old, is playing in an international chess tournament and yesterday he won against a Russian Grandmaster. You don't mess around with my father on the chessboard! 😎 (He lost today.)

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2 years

When using my Open Source, remember it is written from a Batman chair.

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3 years

It is with great pleasure that I removed the monkey-patch for Marshal.load in Active Support, which was necessary to autoload from dumps. With Zeitwerk, Marshal.load autoloads out of the box. Yet another little victory 💪🏆.

Removes the monkey-patch for Marshal.load · rails/rails@6d38553

Marshal.load autoloads out of the box with Zeitwerk. See https://github.com/fxn/zeitwerk/blob/master/test/lib/zeitwerk/test_marshal.rb for similar coverage.

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2 years

The way I like to program, Crystal is at the right intersection of performance (!), safety guarantees, and expressiveness for me. Crystal is a jewel that deserves more attention.

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5 years

At the supermarket: Wife: You could already go to the check-out line and wait for us Me: Not needed, really, there is no line right now Daughter: Daddy, there is always a line, right now the line has 0 people And that is how you conquer your father.

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4 years

just realized last March was my 10th anniversary since I got commit bit in Rails, what a ride 🎉

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3 years

I am working on a blog post about a dramatic performance boost I came up with for a client. It has the interesting characteristic that the busier the application is, the faster the code runs. Like, there's an acceleration as workload increases, paradoxical huh? Coming soon!

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3 years

Launched a somewhat critical Phoenix app doing WebSockets mostly about two months ago. Not only is the app doing its job amazingly well, but Sentry has remained *empty* so far 💪. Well, technically, one error was generated by hand to verify Sentry was not misconfigured 😂.

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7 months

Looking at that talk from 2018 (left) vs a more recent one from Rails World (right), I believe I look younger now. I have been working on my health and it shows. (The bags below the eyes were removed surgically, it is just fat you accumulate with time).

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7 years

I just published “How does Elixir compile/execute code?”

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