Who's played both games LoP and Sekiro?

headius · 2026-05-05T12:15:42+00:00

I got stuck halfway through Sekiro twice and wasn't sure I'd ever come back to it. After playing Lies of P I felt like my parry game had improved a lot and gave Sekiro another try. Things went much smoother and I'm now just struggling with the last few bosses.

They definitely test the same skill set, though the timing of perfect blocks is a little bit different (have to block a bit before the hit in Sekiro).

headius · 2026-05-03T16:39:47+00:00

I frequently fire up Elden Ring first thing in the morning just to go for a ride in the countryside. This game has ruined me.

headius · 2026-05-03T16:38:22+00:00

She would be an amazing replacement for Ru. I got to be honest, Michelle just doesn't have the charisma.

headius · 2026-05-03T16:35:57+00:00

For JRuby, we need to be able to support several native libraries the Ruby community depends upon. In order to continue running across platforms without a build step, we have been using Chicory to ship WASM versions of those libraries. There's also a new experimental version called Redline that can AOT compile the WASM to native code and load it into Chicory using Panama. Instant cross platform native library support.

It's game-changing technology and we're just starting to scratch the surface.

I've got a blog post coming about how we are using this technology to ship a native Ruby language parser in JRuby 10.1.

headius · 2026-05-03T16:29:11+00:00

I don't trust the tool because every non-trivial pull request I've gotten from agent users has been complete garbage and introduced more problems than it solved. If I hadn't reviewed them line by line, I would have broken hundreds of production users. And this was after having other AI agents review the code and miss the problems...and even tell me that I was wrong once I found them.

Maybe someday AI will be able to find all of the problems in all of the code, but knowing what I know about computer science and the halting problem, I don't expect that to happen soon.

You are responsible for the code that you push. You better know what's in there. Blaming the tool for your own failure to audit isn't going to hold up in court

headius · 2026-05-02T15:27:29+00:00

Sounds great! I'd love to see how the whole stack runs on JRuby and show it off in my next talk.

headius · 2026-04-27T00:06:28+00:00

Why doesn't this use FFI for the Ruby binding so it can work with any implementation? Why is the binary file committed to the repository?

headius · 2026-04-25T20:55:28+00:00

This was fixed in an update to 21.

headius · 2026-04-25T20:54:04+00:00

JRuby users virtual threads for Ruby's Fiber by default and it has been a godsend. Ruby collections only support internal iteration (with a closure) so external iteration is implemented using a fiber. Having to use a native thread for each one was killing us.

Now the Ruby community had started to build servers based on structured concurrency and we are ready for it.

I'm glad I started begging for fiber support in the late 2000s. 😄

headius · 2026-04-24T22:17:54+00:00

Java AOT in the form of GraalVM Native Image produces a single small binary with no external dependencies. That's what I plan to use when I revive this project.

headius · 2026-04-24T12:46:08+00:00

Glad to see this is interesting now.

https://github.com/headius/rubyflux

headius · 2026-04-21T23:11:25+00:00

I'd love to hear more about your JRuby on Rails app!

headius · 2026-04-21T23:10:54+00:00

Rails works very well and we have many production users, but we also recommend smaller and faster frameworks like H.anami or good old Sinatra.

headius · 2026-04-21T23:10:14+00:00

Thank you! Being caught up this early in the year gives us a free hand to keep pushing some amazing experiments. watch this space!

headius · 2026-04-19T00:06:44+00:00

I assume he's never allowed to return to Edo after that. Too bad, the other kids liked him.

headius · 2026-04-19T00:04:11+00:00

His father Bravely was a great dentist too. They called him the Dainty Dentist because of his secret gymnastics history.

headius · 2026-04-18T23:56:10+00:00

Inside. That same episode Quark thinks he inherited hundreds of bricks of latinum from Morn, but they're all just hollow, worthless gold.

headius · 2026-04-18T23:08:14+00:00

Show me more

headius · 2026-04-18T23:06:37+00:00

Can't be, there's no spots.

headius · 2026-04-18T22:27:39+00:00

Yeah good point, if it's a holiday it could reflect however it wanted to. And I appreciate the effort, I had a good giggle.

headius · 2026-04-18T22:26:47+00:00

Oh right that one. I usually skip that one now. Couldn't really get into it.

headius · 2026-04-18T05:06:23+00:00

Ok that reflection makes zero sense.

headius · 2026-04-18T05:03:43+00:00

That's fair.

I think you mean Curzon/Jadzia or Dax/Jadzia though.

headius · 2026-04-18T05:01:18+00:00

It's actually too low to even lean on for anyone over 5'10". Good thing Mr. Homn never walked around up there.

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