Weeknotes 97

Add translations to your app with ChatGPT with instant18n?

Uses the power of OpenAI’s GPT large language AI models to generate translations for your application.

Ruby Central are launching memberships. I think most Ruby developers would say that supporting Ruby Central is a good idea – support the work that enables your work. It makes sense.

Perhaps I’m cheap, but to me the membership prices seem to be set at what someone should pay rather than what they will pay. The starting membership is $25. Surely making the first tier $10 a month moves it into cup of coffee, signup without thinking, no-brainer territory? Chuck in a couple of stickers when you sign-up (like the EFF do) and you get more people involved overall?

The compilation issues I mentioned last week are thankfully now resolved after re-installing all the things including Homebrew and asdf managed tools.

JustSimply.dev

Scan your technical writing for words such as easy, painless, straightforward, trivial, simple and just. Chances are your writing will be clearer as a result of removing them.

Chris Lattner’s (of LLVM fame) startup, Modular, are working on a new Python compatible programming language called Mojo.

Mojo is a new programming language that bridges the gap between research and production by combining the best of Python syntax with systems programming and metaprogramming.

With Mojo, you can write portable code that’s faster than C and seamlessly inter-op with the Python ecosystem.

I found some debugging helpers in depths of the current codebase I’m working on at the moment. One of them was using sonota88/anbt-sql-formatter to show the SQL of a query. It makes it so much easier to see what’s going on than a super long hundred character string.

Ruby’s Frozen String Comment: YAGNI – I have to admit that I was once that guy who threw frozen_string_literal: true magic comments into codebases with gay abandon. There is certainly confusion about it. Perhaps now is the time to stop.

ntfy looks great! I was up-and-running in no time. There are a few different services that use, pushover is one I’m most familiar with, but the design of ntfy is very nice. Worth a look if you want to send yourself notifications from scripts and the like.

The Mastodon people hoped for is doomed

Gruber on Mastodon and Bluesky.

I like Mastodon, especially using @ivory, and I love the community I’m in here. And maybe our community will stay here. What makes Mastodon good for us nerds is that all the non-nerds aren’t here.

This is what I realised recently. The Twitter of 2007 was a place full of interesting tech stuff, and then everyone else joined and it slowly devolved into the mess we have now. If Mastodon stays nerd-only I will be happy with that.

Shopify, after bragging about hiring 2000 developers in 2022, have cut their workforce by 20%. I’m sad for the people who work there 😢

Their stock price shot up in response…

Livebook has been on my radar for a while, but I hadn’t been following along very closely. When it was first released I thought it was cool, but I didn’t really feel like I needed it. Well, I watched the videos Jose Valim put together for Livebook Launch Week, and wow, this thing is off the hook.