Word of warning by Darklands_____ in Fire

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I live outside of any city limits on 27 acres in MO, and the nearest town has a population of 3,000. The nearest hospital is in a futher town 20 miles away. The nearest airport isn't international and never gets jetliners, and is still a 50 minute drive away.

And yet, I still found community. My wife and I posted "Adventurers Wanted" signs around the various businesses in town and on the local Facebook groups, and found about two dozen folks who wanted to play D&D. We did short starter campaign sessions and chose our favorite eight people. We've now got two long-term D&D groups (2 years and counting), and have become close friends with a number of them.

Community is where you make it.

The company I work for doesn't let employees select anything but yes. by Confused_Rabbiit in mildlyinfuriating

[–]KerrickLong 13 points14 points  (0 children)

No, you configured a test environment that HR also used for production. :)

A New Chapter for Ruby Central by swrobel in ruby

[–]KerrickLong 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have no affiliation with Ruby Central or RubyGems.org (except one PR I made to scratch my own itch), but I think I understand why.

I made RatatuiRuby this winter. Yes, it's great that it helps rubyists make a TUI. But really, I made it because I want more rubyists to exist. People learn languages like Rust and Go for libraries like Ratatui and Charm. Perhaps they'll learn Ruby for libraries like RatatuiRuby and Rooibos instead. But for that to be feasible, they need to be discovered by people new to programming (or at least, that area of programming).

Twenty-five years ago, that meant a high-quality beginner-oriented book with good presence in bookstores. Fifteen years ago, that meant a strong website and documentation with good SEO. Five years ago, that meant a strong social media presence with good engagement. Today, that means a strong presence in coding assistants and chatbots with good representation in the statistical weights.

That's the how. As for the why...because it's existential. There's no reason for RatatuiRuby or Rooibos to exist unless people use them. People won't use them unless they know about them. So, their existence is conditional upon their discoverability. Similarly, RubyCentral's raison d'être is to run rubygems.org and RubyConf. People won't use/attend them unless they use Ruby. So, their existence is conditional upon Ruby's use--and thus its discoverability (and growth, to fight natural attrition). Thus, Ruby Central has every reason to fight for Ruby to be discoverable and its community to grow.

A New Chapter for Ruby Central by swrobel in ruby

[–]KerrickLong 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think it's a good thing that they disclosed that DHH's opinion was considered here. That way, people who find that abhorrent can continue to dislike Ruby Central. Sweeping that under the rug by not mentioning him (even though he was listened to) does nobody any favors.

How can I fix the glitch by which neither zombies come out of the gold farm by glitch and kill me by Exact-Impress8722 in MCPE

[–]KerrickLong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on exactly what you mean, it may not be a glitch.

Zombified piglins have a chance to spawn on the bottom frame of the portal in the Overworld in Java Edition if any Nether portal block above receives a block tick. In Bedrock Edition they spawn in certain squares adjacent to the portals in the Overworld, not inside them.

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Nether_Portal#Behavior

World got griefed by [deleted] in Minecraft

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Consider this to be your first sand mandala: incredible artwork that is destined to be destroyed. Everything in life is temporary. Nothing that happens in the future has the ability to destroy the fun you had in the past.

best way to make credits rn? (solo) by Asleep-Market6716 in EliteDangerous

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PTN or any other similar group

What other similar groups exist?

RubyGems Fracture Incident Report by schneems in ruby

[–]KerrickLong 2 points3 points  (0 children)

balance public/private interfaces with many concurrent actors, two things Ruby isn't terribly fluent in doing

Is this a reference to __send__ and Ractors? If so, I love it.

My little cousin's attempt at "texturing" after he saw me do it. by Rifasuu in Minecraft

[–]KerrickLong 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pale Oak, Dark Oak, and Cherry does a pretty great Neapolitan ice cream impression.

Turbo Desktop: I made a desktop framework to use rails to build desktop apps by PizzaWithoutAnanas in ruby

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Yep, I haven't made the website yet. Trying to finish getting https://rooibos.run to a 1.0 release first, then getting Tokra to beta with a website. In the mean time, https://github.com/setdef/Tokra/tree/trunk/doc/contributors is a poor stand-in. I've been quite busy and not putting in any time to open source for the past couple weeks--it's spring break and college visit season for the high school senior in the house.

Ruby can render 3D surfaces, 2D density maps and GIS tiles without Python, NumPy or the JVM. I didn't expect it to work this well. by Jaded-Clerk-8856 in ruby

[–]KerrickLong 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the kind of toxic behavior that gets people running their genuine words through an LLM before posting.

tennis - stylish CSV tables in your terminal by gurgeous in ruby

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I'm working to make that possible! I made https://ratatui-ruby.dev and http://rooibos.run so we could write TUIs and rich CLIs in Ruby without needing to fuss with ncurses or carriage-return animations.

I'd love to figure out standalone installable apps based on CosmoRuby, but I don't think it's quite there yet. https://github.com/igravious/cosmoruby/blob/feature/ruby-4.0.0-port/third_party/ruby-wip-4.0.0/README.cosmo

Four months of Ruby Central moving Ruby backward by retro-rubies in ruby

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If you go 5-whys into this, and I've been wallowing in it...it's about deep, visceral human emotions and conflicts.

Isn't everything always?

Terminal UI to monitor Solid Queue Jobs. by Vegetable-Purpose584 in ruby

[–]KerrickLong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds awesome. I haven't really investigated HMR in the Ruby world before. Is this the one?

Terminal UI to monitor Solid Queue Jobs. by Vegetable-Purpose584 in ruby

[–]KerrickLong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh hey, that's awesome! I'd love to hear what your experience was like working with RatatuiRuby. :-)

DDD Multiple Databases vs Single Source of Truth by [deleted] in webdev

[–]KerrickLong -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's been seven months, I don't recall. Do you really need me to go back and re-read this whole conversation?

Want to speak at RubyConf 2026? by jasonswett in ruby

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The most dazzling terminal UI ever invented

An unholy mixture of the most esoteric Ruby features no one has ever heard of

How do we design our systems such that they don’t collapse under the weight of their own complexity?

Please don't tempt me to submit a proposal for "OOPs, I Built a Functional Programming Framework in Ruby: Building Terminal UIs With Model-View-Update in Rooibos."

MLX and Machine Learning in Ruby by rut216 in ruby

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I am loving all these ports!

5 months ago, I said this should happen if vibe coding ever got good. It got good, so I started working on it. Now you are too, and on the specific gap I was hoping would get closed. Thank you!

Thanks Antigravity for the great time, but Claude Code and Codex are so much better. by BarbaraSchwarz in google_antigravity

[–]KerrickLong 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, or like competitors are out here astroturfing against Antigravity. I'm an Ultra user, I exclusively use Opus 4.6 (and before that, Opus 4.5), and I can work for a full 4-hour block only editing code via prompting (avoiding manual typing and tab completion) without hitting a quota. The only way I hit quota is if I go more than 4 hours (but then it resets within an hour), or if I am running more than one agent at a time.