Weeknotes 51

TIL You can get the number of arguments supplied to a block in Ruby. Via Kasper Timm Hansen.

My NordVPN subscription expired and I decided to try out other options. The current short list includes Mullvad and ProtonVPN – ProtonVPN have a free plan so I’m trying that first.

Useful bundler debugging tip from Mike Perham. Use DEBUG=1 to get more information when bundling goes wrong.

Someone recommended Diablo Immortal to me and I’ve been enjoying playing it this week - I hardly play games any more so it was nice to get back into it. The Internet is unhappy about “micro transactions” within the game, but I’ve managed to play without spending any money.

I got access to GitHub code search this week.

Initially, we’re creating a separate interface for the new code search as we build it out, but once we’re happy with the feedback and are ready for wider adoption, we will integrate it into the main github.com experience.

I totally understand why it’s not built into the main GitHub interface at the moment, but it does mean that I forget about it. Hence why I’ve barely used it so far.

New editor alert – Zed.

A lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust.

I watched a couple of ADHD videos this week. I’ve gotta say, they really resonated with me. The perfectionism. The all or nothing approach. The guilt.

The second video describes some coping strategies. I’ve inadvertently learnt some of these I think. Changing my environment is something I’ve started doing – if I’m struggling to get something done I will travel to a local coffee shop, this removes me from my current, unproductive environment, and I get the added bonus of thinking time whilst I travel. Of course, this comes with guilt. Pointless guilt.

I don’t know whether I have some form of ADHD, but I certainly have a lot of the symptoms.

Rails Discord server is now open to the public

Today, we are opening a Discord server to allow contributors to help each other and lower the overhead of communicating with new contributors.

I never thought I’d see this, but I welcome it.

GitHub are sunsetting Atom. I suppose this was inevitable given the popularity of VS Code. Perhaps we should be surprised it didn’t happen sooner?