The Art && Science of Ruby
The Art && Science of Ruby
Baz (Rahoul Baruah)
I'm Baz (aka Rahoul Baruah) and I've been writing ruby code professionally since 2005, and I've been a freelancer, dedicated to building low-cost bespoke systems for tiny businesses (generally no more than ten employees) since 2007.
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Egune AI, is part of a growing movement to build LLMs in low-resource languages to expand AI access for underserved populations. Despite a shortage of training data, compute power, talent, and funding, these small models are attracting...
But what makes me absolutely furious is that the greediest, most do-nothing cohort of the money-movers have spent decades creating the myth that now they are the builders. They think they are the creative ones, the inventors, the ones...
I was at a leadership group and people were telling me "We think that with AI we can replace all of our junior people in our company." I was like, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. They're probably the least
(Or, "My big revelation about LLMs and software development") A few months ago, I did a demo of Claude Code at the Northwest Ruby User Group. I had just started using Claude Code and it had impressed me. I wanted to show off some of its...
(or "Software will never be the same again") A few weeks back I watched the latest series (seven) of Black Mirror. I'm never fully convinced by Charlie Brooker - I loved Nathan Barley (but mainly because I also love Chris Morris) but...
I've been trying out Vibe Coding. There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists It's not been easy for me, as someone who
This is a vastly oversimplifed and technically inaccurate description of how to use devcontainers to make software development easier. I'm writing it for someone who's never used them before. Virtual Machines When you run a virtual...
First of all - a quick question: am I stupid? The idea behind Operations seems so simple and so natural to me, I'm really surprised that no-one seems to have done it before. So either I'm a total genius who has just invented something...
Years ago, I worked at a hosting company called Brightbox. Being a hosting company and being responsible for their customer's data meant that security was a high priority for them. One day, we were discussing some new feature and the...
(It might not be fun. And there won't be any profit) In Collabor8Online we have "automations". These are sort of like pipelines but very specific to how C8O works. The current implementation is used when a task moves through a...
(or, in some cases, things I already knew but never really cared about) Microsoft Word's .docx format is officially called the "Office Open XML Format" and has been managed by ECMA since 2006. The specification consists of four...
Or why Ben Brereton-Diaz changed his name. I've never really been in to data and statistics. I'm not great at maths and it gets tiring figuring things out from first principles every time I need to do some calculation. And while I'm...
An exercise in Test Driven Development: Kata No. 9 You Aren't Going to Need it - until you do Last night, at the North West Ruby Group, we did an exercise in Kata No. 9. This meant using Test-Driven Development to design a Checkout class...