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Late to the party, catching up 🙃

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Ruby `Thread#value` is amazing for quick, ad-hoc thread pools. Here's the example of a dumb concurrent enumerator that iterates over remote items 👇

Finally made the animated sequence diagrams I've always wanted for articles and slides. It's built on top of slightly tweaked mermaid.js and with little help from reveal.js to present.

I miss Gherkin data tables for test specifications... so I wrote sort-of-data-tables for single-file-test — github.com/mostlyobvious/pos…

Fibers seem like an ideal fit to coordinate actors in a tricky test, showcasing particular unwanted behaviour. I'd have to rely on some semaphores otherwise. And I have a feeling the clarity would be lost along the way. With fibers that is a few resume calls to coordinate.

Closing another year of blogging at @arkency with a piece on ActiveRecord x Repository. Spoiler — you don't need to reinvent the framework to have the benefits-and-drawbacks of this tactical pattern 🐵 blog.arkency.com/activerecor…

Spending some end-of-year-time-off revisiting past ideas. Today is the day of micropub.spec.indieweb.org — a belated follow-up to "The technical and non-technical challenges running a company blog" talk from over 2 years ago. New @drugpl talk brewing... youtube.com/watch?v=NJZaGEKX…

Now that @RailsEventStore always supported all three database engines, a temptation to fork a specialized postgres-only version is strong 🧠

Old-school approach to isolated databases for development. No superfluous layers of slowness involved. Automation as a bonus — blog.arkency.com/temporary-d…

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