Pablo Brasero @pablobm@nitech.online

My hot take on ruby constants from

https://noelrappin.com/blog/2023/10/better-know-a-ruby-thing-22-constants/

Don't use constants in Ruby just to store magic values. Store them as class methods instead.

```
class Person
self.default_role = “user"
end
```

There are a few reasons, but the main one is that it's much easier to update if the constant turns out to be not constant and actually have logic behind it…

This is a smart explanation of how the "masks don't work" message spread & why we know masks do work (and so does flossing) even if there aren't randomized controlled trials to prove it https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-went-wrong-with-a-highly-publicized-covid-mask-analysis/

I understand that sending texts in meticulously capitalized and punctuated complete sentences makes me An Old and the thing is I am 100% fine with that.

Just did a playthrough on @mmasnick and team's Trust & Safety game. Really good. As someone who worked closely with that team at Twitter, I know first-hand just how complicated and nuanced this space is, and the game reflects the complexity nicely.

(I had to leave Yapper before the end of the second year, FWIW).

https://trustandsafety.fun/

At this year's @emberfest in Madrid, I gave a talk about the need for companies to invest into the open source projects they build on – specifically #emberjs in this case.

Failing to invest can lead to significant cost over time (when you might have to rewrite eventually) – in comparison the investments needed to ensure sustainability are neglectable.

Reach out if you want to invest in Ember and join our Embroider initiative!

➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMUm6UOoNRs

If you were the woman on a yellow racing bike who was attacked by a car driver this evening (Tue 17 Oct at 19:00) near #potsdammerplatz in #berlin, then I am a witness, have photos and the numberplate of the car.

Please boost - I guess on Muskrat and Zuck-controlled asocial media as well.

#angriff #autofahrer #autogewalt

Forgive me for not really being excited by the ideas being mooted for post-Bandcamp options at the moment. While some of them seem to have the point of sale part pretty well sorted, at least in concept, looking at everything that Bandcamp got right, it would be extraordinarily difficult to fully replicate that infrastructure from scratch in a way that got close to the experience for artists or audience.

Encrypt. Now.

https://blog.tripu.info/encrypt/

"Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights." - Byrne Hobart

Looks like Ruby is getting virtual top-level namespaces. Dependencies can be required in these namespaces without polluting the global namespace.

Proposal: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19744

Dev meeting conclusion:
https://github.com/ruby/dev-meeting-log/blob/b4357853c03dfe71b6eab320d5642d463854f50f/2023/DevMeeting-2023-10-12.md?plain=1#L99-L108

who cares about prison time, my worst nightmare is my shitty commit messages making it into the court record

#FTX #SBF #crypto #cryptocurrency

Can we please stop idolising the electric car already?

if someone writes to you "we need to talk" write back "we certainly do" so they'll feel stressed too

As per my last Slack message. No not that thread. Not that one either. It was in this channel. Oops no it was in this one. Or was it? This week? Last week? What were we talking about?

Blender (the open-source 3D animation/modeling software) is hiring a macOS developer. You could make one of the most successful open-source projects shine on the Mac.

https://www.blender.org/jobs/senior-developer/#macos

#blender