Weeknotes 49

A short, but tiring, week.

Fullstaq Ruby – a new Ruby edition focussed on lowering memory usage and improving performance by Hongli Lai of Phusion Passenger fame.

Fullstaq Ruby is an MRI-based Ruby distribution that’s optimized for server production use cases. It is compiled with the Jemalloc and malloc_trim patches, allowing lower memory usage and higher performance.

An interesting write up of the history of Postgres at Heroku by Craig Kerstiens. I think a lot of people take the achievements of Heroku for granted.

“What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?”

IP addresses only from now on?

I came across neat CSS tips via Twitter this week: smooth, snapping, carousels by Steve Sewell, pure CSS image zooming by Jhey Tompkins, and this lovely image-less background using conic-gradient by Temani Afif.

Rails magic breakdown: 1.day.ago – Nice explanation of how code such as 1.day.ago actually works.

lol computers

Someone tagged literally every person with access to the Unreal Engine github repo in a spam PR and it’s generating so many emails per comment (upwards of 380k) that the notification emails are like 15 minutes behind

I installed a neat Rubygems Raycast extension this week. Handy!

A question by Andrew Culver on Twitter.

What’s the best vanilla JS alternative to Select2? No jQuery, no React, no nothing.

Some nice responses in the thread – worth remembering, but is this something we can more easily build ourselves these days without relying on libraries?